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
Kunming Cellulose Fibers Co. Ltd. maintains a patent portfolio within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. The company currently has 1 pending office action. This prosecution activity is limited to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, indicating a concentrated effort in a specific technical field. This structure means that the company's current interactions with the USPTO are focused on a single point of contact.
CULBERT, COURTNEY GUENTHER is the busiest examiner for the company, handling 1 pending office action. Since this is the only pending action, the examiner's specific approach to Chemistry & Materials will determine the immediate success of the portfolio. For a practitioner, this lack of examiner diversity means that the strategy must be tailored specifically to CULBERT, COURTNEY GUENTHER, without the benefit of observing how other examiners might treat similar subject matter.
The involvement of only 1 distinct art unit suggests that the company's current filings are technically specialized. With 1 pending office action, the company's immediate patent goals are tied to a single prosecution track. This requires a precise and focused response to the examiner's findings, as the company does not have other pending matters to provide a broader view of the current examination environment.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CULBERT, COURTNEY GUENTHER | 1 | 26.9% | +8.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17462677 | AEROSOL GENERATING PRODUCT | CULBERT, COURTNEY GUENTHER | 12d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1747 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17462677 | AEROSOL GENERATING PRODUCT | CULBERT, COURTNEY GUENTHER | 1747 | §103 | Final Rejection | 12d | Pending | Aug 31, 2021 |
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