Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Jiangsu Shagang Group Co. Ltd. currently has 2 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These matters are distributed across 2 distinct examiners, resulting in a direct pairing of one examiner to each of the 2 pending actions. The portfolio is active within 1 distinct art unit, which suggests that the technical focus remains consolidated despite the involvement of multiple reviewers.
Tima Michele McGuthry Banks is the busiest examiner for the company, holding 1 pending office action. This distribution indicates that the 2 pending office actions are split between the 2 distinct examiners. This structure provides a narrow but divided field of interaction for the company's current prosecution needs, requiring coordination between two separate examiner styles within a single art unit.
Practitioners can observe that the 2 pending office actions are handled by 2 distinct examiners. Managing these actions requires a strategy that is consistent with the 1 distinct art unit's standards while addressing the specific requirements of each examiner. The consolidated art unit focus may allow for some overlap in the prior art or technical arguments used across the 2 pending matters.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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 |
|---|---|
| §112 only | 1 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MCGUTHRY BANKS, TIMA MICHELE | 1 | 81.8% | +2.5% |
| ZHENG, LOIS L | 1 | 67.6% | +13.0% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18729743 | TIN PLATE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREFOR | MCGUTHRY BANKS, TIMA MICHELE | — |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18261657 | 400 MPa CORROSION-RESISTANT STEEL BAR AND PRODUCTION METHOD THEREOF | ZHENG, LOIS L | 40d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1733 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18729743 | TIN PLATE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREFOR | MCGUTHRY BANKS, TIMA MICHELE | — | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 17, 2024 |
| 18261657 | 400 MPa CORROSION-RESISTANT STEEL BAR AND PRODUCTION METHOD THEREOF | ZHENG, LOIS L | 1733 | §112 | Final Rejection | 40d | Pending | Jul 14, 2023 |
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