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
Microtech Ceramics Limited currently has 1 pending office action in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This activity is handled by 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, reflecting a very focused prosecution stage for the portfolio. This singular focus suggests that the current intellectual property efforts are centered on a specific ceramic or material innovation. For a practitioner, this means that the immediate patent office success is tied to a single point of review, with no other active matters to provide broader context or alternative paths to allowance in this technology area.
HE, QIANPING is the busiest examiner, responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending action. This action represents the entirety of the 1 pending office action for the company, centering the current prosecution efforts on this individual's evaluation. Because the busiest examiner handles the only pending action, their specific feedback and requirements are the primary focus for the legal efforts. Successful prosecution will require a precise and effective response to this examiner's concerns, as there are no other pending actions to balance the portfolio's overall trajectory or provide alternative avenues for securing patent rights.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HE, QIANPING | 1 | 66.2% | +15.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18579201 | METHODS OF MANUFACTURING GREEN BODIES AND SUBSTRATES | HE, QIANPING | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1776 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18579201 | METHODS OF MANUFACTURING GREEN BODIES AND SUBSTRATES | HE, QIANPING | 1776 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 12, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialMicrotech Ceramics Limited has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Qianping He has the most, with 1 of Microtech Ceramics Limited's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.