Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
5 pending office actions • 5 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 8 patents granted in the last 365 days
Ningbo Institute Of Materials Technology And Engineering Chinese Academy Of Sciences manages 6 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These 6 pending office actions are assigned to 6 distinct examiners, meaning each pending matter is being handled by a different official. Furthermore, these examiners are located across 6 distinct art units, representing a high level of organizational dispersion within the patent office. ROE, JESSEE RANDALL is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently overseeing 1 pending office action.
Because the busiest examiner only holds 1 pending office action, the portfolio's 6 pending office actions are entirely decentralized. This structure suggests that the institute's current filings cover a diverse range of chemical and material sciences that do not frequently overlap within the same examiner's docket. For practitioners, this distribution means that there is no single examiner or art unit whose behavior will dominate the prosecution of the current inventory. Each of the 6 pending office actions must be approached as an independent negotiation with a unique examiner. The involvement of 6 distinct art units further confirms that the technical subject matter is spread across various specialized divisions.
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 | 2 (40%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (60%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MALLEY JR., DANIEL PATRICK | 1 | 56.3% | +45.6% |
| KNUDSON, BRAD ALLAN | 1 | 84.9% | +18.6% |
| WU, JENNY R | 1 | 63.6% | +15.9% |
| HEINCER, LIAM J | 1 | 55.8% | +26.0% |
| CHOI, JAMES J | 1 | 68.3% | +44.9% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18555871 | SINGLE-TRANSISTOR STRUCTURE, MULTI-TRANSISTOR STRUCTURE, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS | KNUDSON, BRAD ALLAN | 13d |
| 18578014 | HIGH-PURITY ARGYRODITE-PHASE SULFIDE SOLID ELECTROLYTE AND PREPARATION METHOD THEREOF | MALLEY JR., DANIEL PATRICK | — |
| 18274460 | PREPARATION METHOD OF RARE EARTH PERMANENT MAGNETIC MATERIAL | WU, JENNY R | — |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18555871 | SINGLE-TRANSISTOR STRUCTURE, MULTI-TRANSISTOR STRUCTURE, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS | KNUDSON, BRAD ALLAN | 13d |
| 18578014 | HIGH-PURITY ARGYRODITE-PHASE SULFIDE SOLID ELECTROLYTE AND PREPARATION METHOD THEREOF | MALLEY JR., DANIEL PATRICK | — |
| 18274460 | PREPARATION METHOD OF RARE EARTH PERMANENT MAGNETIC MATERIAL | WU, JENNY R | — |
| 18247917 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL STRUCTURED MULTI-LEVEL INTERLOCKING STRUCTURE AND PREPARATION METHOD THEREOF | HEINCER, LIAM J | — |
| 17990756 | MAGNETIC FIELD GENERATION DEVICE, AND TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPE SAMPLE HOLDER CAPABLE OF APPLYING MAGNETIC FIELD | CHOI, JAMES J | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1726 | 1 |
| 2817 | 1 |
| 1733 | 1 |
| 1767 | 1 |
| 2878 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18578014 | HIGH-PURITY ARGYRODITE-PHASE SULFIDE SOLID ELECTROLYTE AND PREPARATION METHOD THEREOF | MALLEY JR., DANIEL PATRICK | 1726 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 10, 2024 |
| 18555871 | SINGLE-TRANSISTOR STRUCTURE, MULTI-TRANSISTOR STRUCTURE, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS | KNUDSON, BRAD ALLAN | 2817 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 13d | Pending | Oct 18, 2023 |
| 18274460 | PREPARATION METHOD OF RARE EARTH PERMANENT MAGNETIC MATERIAL | WU, JENNY R | 1733 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 26, 2023 |
| 18247917 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL STRUCTURED MULTI-LEVEL INTERLOCKING STRUCTURE AND PREPARATION METHOD THEREOF | HEINCER, LIAM J | 1767 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 05, 2023 |
| 17990756 | MAGNETIC FIELD GENERATION DEVICE, AND TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPE SAMPLE HOLDER CAPABLE OF APPLYING MAGNETIC FIELD | CHOI, JAMES J | 2878 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 21, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialNingbo Institute Of Materials Technology And Engineering Chinese Academy Of Sciences has 5 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 5 art units and 5 examiners.
Daniel Patrick Malley Jr. has the most, with 1 of Ningbo Institute Of Materials Technology And Engineering Chinese Academy Of Sciences's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
