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
Sequremed Inc. is currently managing 1 pending office action within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This matter is handled by 1 distinct examiner, reflecting a highly focused prosecution effort at this stage. The activity is localized within 1 distinct art unit, suggesting that the company's current patent interests are concentrated in a specific technical domain within the chemistry field.
The busiest examiner for the company is QIAN, SHIZHI, who oversees 1 busiest examiner pending action. This represents the total number of pending office actions currently active for the portfolio. With only 1 distinct examiner involved, the company's immediate success depends on navigating the specific preferences and interpretations of QIAN, SHIZHI. Practitioners should focus on the specific feedback from this examiner to resolve the 1 pending office action. The concentration in 1 distinct art unit further simplifies the technical landscape, allowing for a very targeted legal strategy to secure patent protection for the company's chemical innovations.
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 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| QIAN, SHIZHI | 1 | 61.8% | +47.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18379727 | DIAGNOSTIC APPARATUS USING CONDUCTIVE PLASTIC AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME | QIAN, SHIZHI | 14d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1795 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18379727 | DIAGNOSTIC APPARATUS USING CONDUCTIVE PLASTIC AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME | QIAN, SHIZHI | 1795 | §103 | Final Rejection | 14d | Pending | Oct 13, 2023 |
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