Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
6 pending office actions • 4 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 9 patents granted in the last 365 days
Ningbo Institute Of Materials Technology And Engineering Chinese Academy Of Sciences is managing a robust portfolio in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. The data shows 6 pending office actions, indicating a high level of ongoing activity and a significant volume of applications currently under review. This volume suggests a broad research and development focus within this technical domain.
The prosecution of these applications is distributed among 6 distinct examiners, which means that each pending action is being handled by a different individual. These matters are spread across 4 distinct art units, reflecting a diverse range of technical classifications within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics fields. ROE, JESSEE RANDALL is identified as the busiest examiner, though he is responsible for only 1 busiest examiner pending office action. This indicates that the workload is spread across the 6 distinct examiners, with no specific person managing more than 1 busiest examiner pending office action.
For a patent practitioner, the involvement of 4 distinct art units requires a versatile strategy that can adapt to the different standards of each unit. The 6 pending office actions represent a significant administrative task, and the fact that 6 distinct examiners are involved means that the institute must navigate several different sets of examiner preferences. With ROE, JESSEE RANDALL handling 1 busiest examiner pending office action, the portfolio's success is not dependent on any specific examiner, but rather on the collective outcomes across 4 distinct art units.
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 (33%) |
| §102 only | 1 (17%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ROE, JESSEE RANDALL | 1 | 76.4% | +7.8% |
| MALLEY JR., DANIEL PATRICK | 1 | 56.5% | +45.7% |
| KNUDSON, BRAD ALLAN | 1 | 85.6% | +17.7% |
| WU, JENNY R | 1 | 63.5% | +16.0% |
| HEINCER, LIAM J | 1 | 55.8% | +26.0% |
| CHOI, JAMES J | 1 | 67.9% | +45.0% |
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 |
|---|---|
| 2817 | 1 |
| 1733 | 1 |
| 1767 | 1 |
| 2878 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18693552 | SAMARIUM-IRON-BASED RARE EARTH PERMANENT MAGNET MATERIAL CONTAINING GRAIN BOUNDARY PHASE AND PREPARATION METHOD THEREFOR AND USE THEREOF | ROE, JESSEE RANDALL | — | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 20, 2024 |
| 18578014 | HIGH-PURITY ARGYRODITE-PHASE SULFIDE SOLID ELECTROLYTE AND PREPARATION METHOD THEREOF | MALLEY JR., DANIEL PATRICK | — | §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 |
IP Author helps IP teams respond to office actions faster with AI-generated responses, examiner analytics, and prosecution intelligence.
Start Free Trial