Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Shangrao Huanli Recycling Technology Co. Ltd. is currently engaged in the prosecution of 1 pending office action in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This matter is assigned to 1 distinct art unit, indicating that the company's current patenting activity is focused on a specific technical niche. The process involves 1 distinct examiner, which simplifies the management of the company's active applications. Such concentration suggests that the company is prioritizing a specific technical advancement rather than a broad array of diverse chemical innovations.
The busiest examiner for the portfolio is POLLOCK, AUSTIN M, who is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Since the company only has 1 distinct examiner for its active matters, the success of its current prosecution efforts depends on the specific feedback from this examiner. The concentration in 1 distinct art unit reflects a targeted approach to securing intellectual property within the materials science sector. For a practitioner, this means the prosecution outcome will likely hinge on establishing a consistent rapport with this single examiner, as there are no other active cases to provide alternative pathways for patent allowance.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| POLLOCK, AUSTIN M | 1 | 51.2% | +36.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18471774 | REDUCTION ROASTING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR RECOVERING LITHIUM FROM WASTE LITHIUM BATTERY | POLLOCK, AUSTIN M | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1738 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18471774 | REDUCTION ROASTING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR RECOVERING LITHIUM FROM WASTE LITHIUM BATTERY | POLLOCK, AUSTIN M | 1738 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 21, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialShangrao Huanli Recycling Technology Co. Ltd. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Austin M Pollock has the most, with 1 of Shangrao Huanli Recycling Technology Co. Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
