Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Jiarui Zou has 1 pending office action in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This action is assigned to 1 distinct art unit, indicating a singular area of technical focus for the current application. The prosecution is being handled by 1 distinct examiner, LIEN THUY TRAN. This concentration of the pending workload into a single art unit and examiner suggests a very specific regulatory path for the innovations at this time.
LIEN THUY TRAN is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, managing 1 pending office action. This examiner is the only individual currently reviewing a pending action for Jiarui Zou. The success of the current prosecution depends on the specific requirements and feedback from this one examiner. There is no current opportunity to compare examiner behavior across different applications within this portfolio, as only 1 pending office action exists.
The presence of 1 pending office action in 1 distinct art unit means there is no variety in the technical review process at this stage. Practitioners must focus on the standards of the 1 distinct art unit where the action is pending. Because LIEN THUY TRAN is the only examiner with 1 pending action, the prosecution landscape is very narrow. This concentrated environment requires a dedicated approach to the single application currently under review in the 1 distinct art unit.
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 (100%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TRAN, LIEN THUY | 1 | 28.7% | +26.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18728449 | METHOD FOR PREPARING STARCH AND NON-THERMAL-DENATURATION PROTEIN POWDER BY USING RICE AS RAW MATERIAL | TRAN, LIEN THUY | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18728449 | METHOD FOR PREPARING STARCH AND NON-THERMAL-DENATURATION PROTEIN POWDER BY USING RICE AS RAW MATERIAL | TRAN, LIEN THUY | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1793 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18728449 | METHOD FOR PREPARING STARCH AND NON-THERMAL-DENATURATION PROTEIN POWDER BY USING RICE AS RAW MATERIAL | TRAN, LIEN THUY | 1793 | §112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 11, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialJiarui Zou has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Lien Thuy Tran has the most, with 1 of Jiarui Zou's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.