Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Lanzhou Institute Of Chemical Physics Cas is managing 2 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are spread across 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units, showing a diversified prosecution landscape for the institute. This distribution suggests that the institute is pursuing multiple distinct chemical or material innovations simultaneously. For a practitioner, this variety provides a broader base for prosecution, as the success of the portfolio is not tied to the decisions of a single examiner or the specific practices of one art unit.
The busiest examiner, STONEHOCKER, VIRGINIA LEE, is currently handling 1 busiest examiner pending action. This represents 1 of the 2 pending office actions total, while the remaining action is managed by the other of the 2 distinct examiners involved. This balanced workload across different examiners and art units allows the institute to navigate the patent office through multiple channels. The presence of two separate points of review means that the institute can apply different tactical approaches tailored to the specific requirements of each examiner, potentially increasing the overall resilience of the prosecution strategy.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MARTIN, ANGELA J | 1 | 67.3% | -31.4% |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1727 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18238894 | SILICON-BASED ANODE MATERIAL WITH HIGH STABILITY AND CONDUCTIVITY FOR LITHIUM-ION BATTERIES AND PREPARATION METHOD THEREOF | MARTIN, ANGELA J | 1727 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 28, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialLanzhou Institute Of Chemical Physics Cas has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Angela J Martin has the most, with 1 of Lanzhou Institute Of Chemical Physics Cas's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
