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
Marcel Yiao maintains a patent portfolio focused on the Chemistry & Materials technology area. Currently, the company has 1 pending office action across its entire set of filings. This singular action suggests a very limited or highly specific current engagement with the patent office, which may reflect a targeted phase of its intellectual property development.
The prosecution is handled by 1 distinct examiner operating within a single distinct art unit. Such a concentrated structure means that the company's intellectual property strategy is currently passing through a single channel, allowing for a focused dialogue with the examiner. QUIST, NICOLE LEE serves as the busiest examiner for this portfolio, acting as the primary reviewer for the company's technical claims.
QUIST, NICOLE LEE is currently managing 1 pending office action for the company. Because this matches the total pending actions, the prosecution environment is entirely dependent on this one examiner's review. This level of focus provides a clear point of contact for any ongoing legal or technical discussions regarding the portfolio, ensuring that the company's strategy in Chemistry & Materials is handled with consistency.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| QUIST, NICOLE LEE | 1 | 91.9% | +10.7% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17634535 | DESULFURISATION OF LEAD-CONTAINING WASTE | QUIST, NICOLE LEE | 9d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17634535 | DESULFURISATION OF LEAD-CONTAINING WASTE | QUIST, NICOLE LEE | 9d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1738 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17634535 | DESULFURISATION OF LEAD-CONTAINING WASTE | QUIST, NICOLE LEE | 1738 | §103 | Final Rejection | 9d overdue | Pending | Feb 10, 2022 |
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