Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
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 Kedali Industry Co. Ltd. has 1 pending office action in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. The prosecution activity is highly localized, occurring within 1 distinct art unit. This concentration indicates that the portfolio does not currently face the complexities of dealing with multiple USPTO divisions, which can often lead to inconsistent examination results. The company can focus its resources on mastering the specific requirements of this art unit to ensure a smoother path toward patent issuance.
The busiest examiner is EGGERDING, ALIX ECHELMEYER, who is currently overseeing 1 pending office action. As there is only 1 distinct examiner for the entire portfolio, the outcome of the current prosecution rests with this individual. Practitioners should focus on the specific requirements of this examiner to move the pending matter forward efficiently. The absence of other pending actions means that the company's current patent strategy is entirely focused on the successful resolution of this examiner's concerns. Understanding the examiner's typical stance on chemical compositions will be vital for a favorable result.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| EGGERDING, ALIX ECHELMEYER | 1 | 57.4% | +17.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17907905 | POWER BATTERY COVER AND POWER BATTERY | EGGERDING, ALIX ECHELMEYER | 78d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1729 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17907905 | POWER BATTERY COVER AND POWER BATTERY | EGGERDING, ALIX ECHELMEYER | 1729 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 78d | Pending | Aug 29, 2022 |
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