Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Shenzhen Institute Of Advanced Technology has 1 pending office action in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This single active case is handled by 1 distinct examiner, ZHANG, MICHAEL N, who is the busiest examiner for the portfolio with 1 pending office action. The matter is assigned to 1 distinct art unit. The prosecution is currently limited to this 1 pending office action, meaning there is no fragmentation across different examiners or art units.
The reliance on 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit indicates a focused administrative path for the institute's current active filing. Practitioners can focus on the specific technical requirements of the Chemistry & Materials area as applied by ZHANG, MICHAEL N. Without other pending office actions, there is no need to coordinate between different departmental policies. The current data shows that the entirety of the active workload is concentrated in this 1 distinct art unit and 1 distinct examiner.
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 |
|---|---|
| §112 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ZHANG, MICHAEL N | 1 | 54.5% | +22.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18722586 | LEATHER-LIKE BIOLOGICAL COMPOSITE MATERIAL, PREPARATION METHOD THEREFOR AND USE THEREOF | ZHANG, MICHAEL N | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1784 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18722586 | LEATHER-LIKE BIOLOGICAL COMPOSITE MATERIAL, PREPARATION METHOD THEREFOR AND USE THEREOF | ZHANG, MICHAEL N | 1784 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 21, 2025 |
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Start Free TrialShenzhen Institute Of Advanced Technology has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Michael N Zhang has the most, with 1 of Shenzhen Institute Of Advanced Technology's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
