Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Shaanxi Zinc Industry Co. Ltd. currently manages 1 pending office action within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This 1 active matter is assigned to 1 distinct art unit, indicating a highly concentrated prosecution focus for the company's current portfolio. Such a narrow administrative footprint suggests that the company's immediate intellectual property efforts are directed toward a specific technical niche within the broader chemistry sector.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is STILES, JACOB BENJAMIN, who is responsible for the 1 pending office action. Because there is only 1 distinct examiner involved across the entire set of pending cases, the company's immediate patent strategy relies entirely on the interactions within this specific examination context. This lack of examiner diversity means that the applicant does not currently have to manage conflicting feedback from different patent office officials.
With only 1 pending office action and 1 distinct art unit, the portfolio's trajectory is highly sensitive to the individual tendencies of the assigned examiner. Practitioners should focus on the specific requirements of STILES, JACOB BENJAMIN to ensure that this 1 active application progresses efficiently through the 1 assigned art unit. The absence of multiple pending matters simplifies the administrative burden but increases the importance of a successful outcome in this single proceeding.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| STILES, JACOB BENJAMIN | 1 | 0.0% | +0.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18542505 | DEVICE FOR PREPARING ULTRA-HIGH-PURITY ZINC BASED ON INTELLIGENTLY-CONTROLLED ZONE MELTING | STILES, JACOB BENJAMIN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1733 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18542505 | DEVICE FOR PREPARING ULTRA-HIGH-PURITY ZINC BASED ON INTELLIGENTLY-CONTROLLED ZONE MELTING | STILES, JACOB BENJAMIN | 1733 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 15, 2023 |
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