Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Polygroup Plastic Products (Guangxi) Company Limited currently has 1 pending office action in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This single pending matter is being reviewed by 1 distinct examiner, MICHAEL N ZHANG. As the busiest examiner for this portfolio, MICHAEL N ZHANG is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending action. This data shows that the company's current prosecution activity is extremely focused, with no distribution across the 1 distinct examiner involved.
The involvement of 1 distinct art unit suggests that the technology being patented is specialized within a specific branch of chemistry or materials science. Because there is only 1 pending office action, the entire active portfolio is subject to the scrutiny of a single art unit's standards. For practitioners, this means that the prosecution strategy does not need to account for varying examiner behaviors across different departments. The current profile indicates a specific pursuit of intellectual property rights within the 1 distinct art unit in the Chemistry & Materials field.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (100%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ZHANG, MICHAEL N | 1 | 54.5% | +22.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18663631 | DECORATIVE TREE AND BRANCH STRUCTURE THEREOF | ZHANG, MICHAEL N | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18663631 | DECORATIVE TREE AND BRANCH STRUCTURE THEREOF | ZHANG, MICHAEL N | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1781 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18663631 | DECORATIVE TREE AND BRANCH STRUCTURE THEREOF | ZHANG, MICHAEL N | 1781 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 14, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialPolygroup Plastic Products (Guangxi) Company Limited has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Michael N Zhang has the most, with 1 of Polygroup Plastic Products (Guangxi) Company Limited's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
