Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Chemistry & Materials
6 pending office actions • 5 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 9 patents granted in the last 365 days
Shenzhen Capchem Technology Co. Ltd. is currently managing 6 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are distributed across 6 distinct examiners and 5 distinct art units, indicating a broad and diversified prosecution strategy. Jacob Jerome Schuler is the busiest examiner for the company, currently handling 1 pending office action.
The portfolio's activity is spread across 5 distinct art units, which suggests that the pending office actions cover a wide range of technical sub-specialties within Chemistry & Materials. Because each of the distinct examiners is only managing 1 pending office action, no single official has a dominant influence over the company's current legal outcomes. Jacob Jerome Schuler is one of these examiners, responsible for the workload.
For a practitioner, this distribution across multiple examiners and the art units means that the company must manage multiple simultaneous review processes. The pending office actions represent a significant workload that is not concentrated in any single area of the patent office. This diversity across the art units helps mitigate the risk associated with any individual examiner's tendencies.
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 | 2 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (67%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SCHULER, JACOB JEROME | 1 | — | — |
| OTERO, KENNETH MAX | 1 | 52.4% | +43.3% |
| CARVALHO JR., ARMINDO | 1 | 50.3% | +29.0% |
| PIRO, NICHOLAS ANTHONY | 1 | 45.9% | +35.9% |
| CORNO JR, JAMES ANTHONY JOHN | 1 | 38.4% | +36.2% |
| COUGHLIN, MATTHEW P | 1 | 71.3% | +12.4% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18251299 | POSITIVE ELECTRODE SHEET AND LITHIUM-ION BATTERY | CARVALHO JR., ARMINDO | — |
| 18296721 | METHOD FOR CATALYZING REACTION OF EPOXIDE COMPOUND AND CARBON DIOXIDE WITH CATALYST | PIRO, NICHOLAS ANTHONY | — |
| 18010818 | Secondary Battery | CORNO JR, JAMES ANTHONY JOHN | — |
| 18080682 | LINEAR CARBONATE AND PREPARATION METHOD THEREOF | COUGHLIN, MATTHEW P | — |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18036400 | LITHIUM ION BATTERY | OTERO, KENNETH MAX | — |
| 18251299 | POSITIVE ELECTRODE SHEET AND LITHIUM-ION BATTERY | CARVALHO JR., ARMINDO | — |
| 18296721 | METHOD FOR CATALYZING REACTION OF EPOXIDE COMPOUND AND CARBON DIOXIDE WITH CATALYST | PIRO, NICHOLAS ANTHONY | — |
| 18010818 | Secondary Battery | CORNO JR, JAMES ANTHONY JOHN | — |
| 18080682 | LINEAR CARBONATE AND PREPARATION METHOD THEREOF | COUGHLIN, MATTHEW P | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1725 | 1 |
| 1729 | 1 |
| 1738 | 1 |
| 1722 | 1 |
| 1626 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18292337 | LITHIUM ION BATTERY | SCHULER, JACOB JEROME | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 25, 2024 |
| 18036400 | LITHIUM ION BATTERY | OTERO, KENNETH MAX | 1725 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 10, 2023 |
| 18251299 | POSITIVE ELECTRODE SHEET AND LITHIUM-ION BATTERY | CARVALHO JR., ARMINDO | 1729 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 01, 2023 |
| 18296721 | METHOD FOR CATALYZING REACTION OF EPOXIDE COMPOUND AND CARBON DIOXIDE WITH CATALYST | PIRO, NICHOLAS ANTHONY | 1738 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 06, 2023 |
| 18010818 | Secondary Battery | CORNO JR, JAMES ANTHONY JOHN | 1722 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 16, 2022 |
| 18080682 | LINEAR CARBONATE AND PREPARATION METHOD THEREOF | COUGHLIN, MATTHEW P | 1626 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 13, 2022 |
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