Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Shanghai Taihe Industrial Co. Ltd. has 1 pending office action in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and is located within a single distinct art unit. The current prosecution activity is highly concentrated, reflecting a singular focus in their active patent applications. This concentration suggests that the company is currently prioritizing a specific chemical or material innovation within a single specialized group at the patent office.
The busiest examiner, SENGUPTA, SONYA MAZUMDAR, is handling the sole pending office action. This matter constitutes the company's entire pending workload. Prosecution success for the entity currently depends entirely on the interactions within this single art unit and with this specific examiner. Since the busiest examiner pending count is 1, there is no breadth of examiner experience to draw from within the current portfolio, making the specific feedback from this examiner critical.
The alignment of a single pending office action with a distinct examiner and art unit indicates a very narrow prosecution funnel. For a practitioner, this means that every response must be carefully crafted to address the specific concerns of the assigned examiner. The focus on the Chemistry & Materials area ensures that the technical arguments remain within a consistent framework, even if the current volume of activity is low.
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 |
|---|---|
| §102 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SENGUPTA, SONYA MAZUMDAR | 1 | 68.6% | +20.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18717096 | Method and Apparatus for Adhering Sound-Absorbing Material Layer to Noise-Reducing Tire | SENGUPTA, SONYA MAZUMDAR | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1745 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18717096 | Method and Apparatus for Adhering Sound-Absorbing Material Layer to Noise-Reducing Tire | SENGUPTA, SONYA MAZUMDAR | 1745 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 06, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialShanghai Taihe Industrial Co. Ltd. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Sonya Mazumdar Sengupta has the most, with 1 of Shanghai Taihe Industrial Co. Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
