Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Nantong Zhenghai Magnet Co. Ltd. currently manages 2 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These matters are handled by 2 distinct examiners across 1 distinct art unit. The 1 distinct art unit suggests that the company's chemistry filings are concentrated within a specific administrative group, indicating a narrow technical scope for the current applications. The assigned art unit represents the total count of such divisions involved in the company's current prosecution.
GROOMS, NOA WILLIAM FRAN is the busiest examiner, overseeing 1 busiest examiner pending office action. With 2 pending office actions and 2 distinct examiners, the prosecution workload is shared between the assigned officials. The 1 busiest examiner pending office action represents the workload for the busiest examiner in the portfolio. The distinct examiners confirm that the prosecution is split across different individuals within the same 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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 1 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GROOMS, NOA WILLIAM FRAN | 1 | 75.0% | +0.0% |
| STILES, JACOB BENJAMIN | 1 | 0.0% | +0.0% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18580639 | HIGH-PERFORMANCE SINTERED NEODYMIUM-IRON-BORON MAGNET AND PREPARATION METHOD THEREFOR | GROOMS, NOA WILLIAM FRAN | — |
| 18568831 | LOW-COST HIGH-COERCIVITY LACE-RICH NEODYMIUM-IRON-BORON PERMANENT MAGNET, AND PREPARATION METHOD THEREFOR AND USE THEREOF | STILES, JACOB BENJAMIN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1733 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18580639 | HIGH-PERFORMANCE SINTERED NEODYMIUM-IRON-BORON MAGNET AND PREPARATION METHOD THEREFOR | GROOMS, NOA WILLIAM FRAN | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 19, 2024 |
| 18568831 | LOW-COST HIGH-COERCIVITY LACE-RICH NEODYMIUM-IRON-BORON PERMANENT MAGNET, AND PREPARATION METHOD THEREFOR AND USE THEREOF | STILES, JACOB BENJAMIN | 1733 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 10, 2023 |
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