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
Shanghai Hyproof New Material Technology Co. Ltd. has 1 pending office action in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, ESSEX, STEPHAN J, who is the busiest examiner with 1 busiest examiner pending office action. This indicates a highly centralized prosecution path for the company's current patent interests. The prosecution is confined to 1 distinct art unit, meaning the company is not currently facing a variety of examination environments.
For a practitioner, the 1 distinct examiner is the sole gatekeeper for the pending application. The fact that there is only 1 pending office action suggests a very specific or early-stage filing strategy. Because all activity is limited to 1 distinct art unit, the practitioner should focus on the specific precedents and preferences of that unit. The success of the current portfolio rests entirely on the 1 distinct examiner, ESSEX, STEPHAN J, as there are no other active examiners to provide a comparative baseline.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ESSEX, STEPHAN J | 1 | 66.1% | -16.5% |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1727 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18284876 | COMPOSITE MEMBRANE OF SPECIAL HIGHLY-ENHANCED FLUORINE-CONTAINING PROTON OR ION EXCHANGE MEMBRANE, COMPOSITE MEMBRANE ELECTRODE, SPECIAL HIGHLY- ENHANCED FLUORINE-CONTAINING CHLOR-ALKALI BATTERY MEMBRANE, SPECIAL RELEASE MEMBRANE, AND PREPARATION METHOD THEREFOR | ESSEX, STEPHAN J | 1727 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 29, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialShanghai Hyproof New Material Technology Co. Ltd. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Stephan J Essex has the most, with 1 of Shanghai Hyproof New Material Technology Co. Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
