Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
4 pending office actions • 3 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 9 patents granted in the last 365 days
Jiangsu Favored Nanotechnology Co. Ltd. maintains a patent portfolio in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. The company currently has 6 pending office actions. These actions are distributed among 6 distinct examiners and 4 distinct art units. This indicates a prosecution effort where 6 pending actions are being reviewed by 6 different individuals.
HORGER, KIM S. is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, with 1 busiest examiner pending office action. With 6 pending office actions and 6 distinct examiners, the workload is spread across the examining corps. The involvement of 4 distinct art units suggests that the company's nanotechnology applications span several different specialized fields within chemistry and materials. This diversity in both examiners and art units requires the company to manage multiple prosecution tracks simultaneously, as the 6 pending office actions are handled by 6 examiners across 4 distinct art units.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
Difficulty is derived from the rejection statutes on the most recent pending office action. §101-driven and multi-statute cases are graded Hard; §112-only and obviousness-type double-patenting cases are graded Easy; everything else is Medium. "Unknown" means we have not yet parsed a statute for that office action.
| Bucket | Cases |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 2 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (50%) |
How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.
Manual office-action response work runs about 10 hours per case. The time-saved bands below show what IP Author's prosecution pipeline typically delivers — a conservative 20% on the low end, 35% in the middle, 50% on the high end.
| Examiner | Apps on this docket | Allow rate | Interview lift |
|---|---|---|---|
| HORGER, KIM S. | 1 | 70.7% | +20.0% |
| MILLER, BETHANY MACKENZIE | 1 | 55.5% | +50.9% |
| PENCE, JETHRO M | 1 | 79.0% | +25.4% |
| EMPIE, NATHAN H | 1 | 43.5% | +43.1% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18265780 | EXHAUST GAS FILTERING APPARATUS AND COATING EQUIPMENT | PENCE, JETHRO M | 8d overdue |
| 18014746 | SUPER HYDROPHOBIC FILM LAYER, PREPARATION METHOD THEREOF,AND PRODUCT THEREOF | EMPIE, NATHAN H | 6d |
Cases in front of an examiner whose interview lift is 10 percentage points or more — i.e. interviewed cases historically resolve more favorably than non-interviewed ones. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18265780 | EXHAUST GAS FILTERING APPARATUS AND COATING EQUIPMENT | PENCE, JETHRO M | 8d overdue |
| 18014746 | SUPER HYDROPHOBIC FILM LAYER, PREPARATION METHOD THEREOF,AND PRODUCT THEREOF | EMPIE, NATHAN H | 6d |
| 18698615 | COMPOSITE COATING, PREPARATION METHOD, AND DEVICE | MILLER, BETHANY MACKENZIE | 27d |
| 18856725 | DLC COATING AND PREPARATION METHOD AND DEVICE THEREFOR, COMPOSITE COATING LAYER AND COATED PRODUCT | HORGER, KIM S. | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1717 | 2 |
| 1787 | 1 |
| 1712 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18856725 | DLC COATING AND PREPARATION METHOD AND DEVICE THEREFOR, COMPOSITE COATING LAYER AND COATED PRODUCT | HORGER, KIM S. | 1717 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 14, 2024 |
| 18698615 | COMPOSITE COATING, PREPARATION METHOD, AND DEVICE | MILLER, BETHANY MACKENZIE | 1787 | §103 | Final Rejection | 27d | Pending | Apr 04, 2024 |
| 18265780 | EXHAUST GAS FILTERING APPARATUS AND COATING EQUIPMENT | PENCE, JETHRO M | 1717 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 8d overdue | Pending | Jun 07, 2023 |
| 18014746 | SUPER HYDROPHOBIC FILM LAYER, PREPARATION METHOD THEREOF,AND PRODUCT THEREOF | EMPIE, NATHAN H | 1712 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 6d | Pending | Jan 06, 2023 |
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