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
Shenzhen Aerosol Technology Research Co. Ltd. currently has 1 pending office action in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, SCHNEIDER, THOMAS FRANK, who is also the busiest examiner for the company. The presence of a single pending office action indicates a focused prosecution stage for the company's intellectual property. Since the workload is handled by 1 distinct examiner, the current strategy is centered on the feedback and requirements of this specific individual.
The portfolio is concentrated in 1 distinct art unit, which aligns with the single pending office action in Chemistry & Materials. With SCHNEIDER, THOMAS FRANK managing the 1 pending office action, there is no diversification across different art units or examiners at this time. The alignment of the pending workload with 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit suggests a singular path for the current prosecution. Practitioners should focus on the specific requirements of the assigned examiner to advance the pending matter.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SCHNEIDER, THOMAS FRANK | 1 | 47.4% | +37.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18225165 | AEROSOL GENERATION ASSEMBLY, MECHANISM, DEVICE, AND APPARATUS | SCHNEIDER, THOMAS FRANK | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18225165 | AEROSOL GENERATION ASSEMBLY, MECHANISM, DEVICE, AND APPARATUS | SCHNEIDER, THOMAS FRANK | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1749 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18225165 | AEROSOL GENERATION ASSEMBLY, MECHANISM, DEVICE, AND APPARATUS | SCHNEIDER, THOMAS FRANK | 1749 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 24, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialShenzhen Aerosol Technology Research Co. Ltd. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Thomas Frank Schneider has the most, with 1 of Shenzhen Aerosol Technology Research Co. Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
