Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 10 patents granted in the last 365 days
PETROCHINA Company Limited is managing 3 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are distributed among 3 distinct examiners, resulting in a unique examiner for every pending matter. The portfolio is active across 2 distinct art units, suggesting that the company's research in Chemistry & Materials covers multiple specialized technical areas.
Vishal V. Vasisth is the busiest examiner for the company, currently overseeing 1 pending office action. With 3 pending office actions and 3 distinct examiners, the company interacts with a different reviewer for every pending matter. This requires the company to navigate 3 different individual approaches to patent examination across the 2 distinct art units involved in the current prosecution.
Practitioners must manage 3 distinct examiners who each hold 1 pending office action. With the workload split across 2 distinct art units, the company must account for different examination cultures and technical standards. No single examiner or art unit has a dominant role in the 3 pending matters, necessitating a broad and coordinated prosecution strategy to ensure consistent results across the Chemistry & Materials portfolio.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KETCHAM, HANNAH ELIZABETH | 1 | — | — |
| BICKHAM, DAWN MARIE | 1 | 46.2% | +64.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18674013 | METAL MODIFIED ZSM-5 MOLECULAR SIEVE CATALYST, PREPARATION METHOD AND APPLICATION THEREOF | KETCHAM, HANNAH ELIZABETH | — |
| 17044035 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PREDICTING OIL AND GAS YIELDS IN IN-SITU OIL SHALE EXPLOITATION | BICKHAM, DAWN MARIE | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17044035 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PREDICTING OIL AND GAS YIELDS IN IN-SITU OIL SHALE EXPLOITATION | BICKHAM, DAWN MARIE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3676 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18674013 | METAL MODIFIED ZSM-5 MOLECULAR SIEVE CATALYST, PREPARATION METHOD AND APPLICATION THEREOF | KETCHAM, HANNAH ELIZABETH | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 24, 2024 |
| 17044035 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PREDICTING OIL AND GAS YIELDS IN IN-SITU OIL SHALE EXPLOITATION | BICKHAM, DAWN MARIE | 3676 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 22, 2023 |
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