Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Q-Flo Limited currently has 1 pending office action in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This single action represents the company's total active prosecution workload as shown in the data. The portfolio's activity is confined to 1 distinct art unit, suggesting a very specific technical focus for the company's current patent applications in this field.
The prosecution is overseen by 1 distinct examiner, HE, QIANPING, who is currently responsible for 1 pending office action. As the only examiner involved, HE, QIANPING manages all of the company's pending matters. The alignment of 1 pending office action with 1 examiner and 1 art unit indicates a highly centralized prosecution process. Practitioners should tailor their strategy to the specific tendencies of this examiner, as the entire pending portfolio currently rests on the outcome of this single office action. The lack of multiple examiners or art units for the 1 pending action means there is no current diversification in the company's prosecution path.
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 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HE, QIANPING | 1 | 66.8% | +15.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17912152 | FILTER | HE, QIANPING | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1776 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17912152 | FILTER | HE, QIANPING | 1776 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 16, 2022 |
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