Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
4 pending office actions • 4 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Nelumbo Inc. currently has 4 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are distributed across 4 distinct examiners, which means that each pending action is reviewed by a different person. The prosecution activity is spread across 4 distinct art units, which indicates that the company's pending matters involve a variety of technical sub-specialties within chemistry and materials.
VO, HAI is identified as the busiest examiner for this portfolio, with 1 pending office action. Given that there are 4 pending office actions and 4 distinct examiners, the workload is distributed so that no single examiner handles more than 1 action. This distribution across 4 distinct art units suggests a broad technical footprint for the company's current patent applications. Each of the 4 pending office actions is being reviewed by a different examiner in a different art unit. This diversity of examiners and art units implies a decentralized prosecution environment.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 | 2 (50%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (25%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| VO, HAI | 1 | 57.1% | +72.4% |
| GOLDEN, CHINESSA T | 1 | 57.9% | +4.8% |
| ZHANG, MICHAEL N | 1 | 54.2% | +23.3% |
| RUMMEL, JULIA L | 1 | 34.8% | +52.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18844919 | HIERARCHICAL STRUCTURES AND METHODS OF MANUFACTURE THEREOF | GOLDEN, CHINESSA T | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17784502 | Selectively Applied Gradient Coating Compositions | ZHANG, MICHAEL N | 114d overdue |
| 17784495 | Ceramic Composite Materials | RUMMEL, JULIA L | 41d |
| 18918514 | Functionalized Textile Compositions and Articles | VO, HAI | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1788 | 1 |
| 1712 | 1 |
| 1781 | 1 |
| 1784 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18918514 | Functionalized Textile Compositions and Articles | VO, HAI | 1788 | §102§103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 17, 2024 |
| 18844919 | HIERARCHICAL STRUCTURES AND METHODS OF MANUFACTURE THEREOF | GOLDEN, CHINESSA T | 1712 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 06, 2024 |
| 17784502 | Selectively Applied Gradient Coating Compositions | ZHANG, MICHAEL N | 1781 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 114d overdue | Pending | Jun 10, 2022 |
| 17784495 | Ceramic Composite Materials | RUMMEL, JULIA L | 1784 | §103 | Final Rejection | 41d | Pending | Jun 10, 2022 |
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