Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
4 pending office actions • 3 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Shenzhen Relx Technology Co. Ltd. is currently managing 4 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These 4 actions are distributed among 4 distinct examiners but are concentrated within 3 distinct art units. This suggests that while the company's inventions are being reviewed by several different individuals, there is some overlap in the departmental oversight. This departmental concentration can be advantageous for maintaining consistency in how technical terms or prior art are treated across different applications.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is MULLEN, MICHAEL PATRICK, who is assigned 1 pending office action. Since the total of 4 pending actions is split among 4 distinct examiners, each examiner is responsible for exactly 1 action. This even distribution means that the company must manage four separate examiner relationships simultaneously, with no single examiner holding a majority of the influence. Practitioners should note that the use of 3 distinct art units for 4 actions indicates that at least two examiners are likely working within the same department. This provides a degree of administrative consistency, as those examiners may share similar internal guidelines. The strategy must balance individualized arguments for each examiner with the broader standards of the 3 art units involved.
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 |
|---|---|
| §102 only | 1 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (75%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MULLEN, MICHAEL PATRICK | 1 | 55.0% | +54.5% |
| FERDOUSI, FAHMIDA NMN | 1 | 42.6% | +32.8% |
| LEE JR, WOODY A | 1 | 84.6% | +12.9% |
| SCHNEIDER, THOMAS FRANK | 1 | 48.6% | +35.6% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18242830 | ATOMIZATION DEVICE | LEE JR, WOODY A | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18254349 | ATOMIZATION CORE, ATOMIZER COMPRISING SAME, AND ELECTRONIC CIGARETTE | SCHNEIDER, THOMAS FRANK | 5d |
| 18373591 | CIGARETTE ROD AND ATOMIZATION DEVICE | MULLEN, MICHAEL PATRICK | — |
| 18371420 | ELECTRONIC HEATING DEVICE | FERDOUSI, FAHMIDA NMN | — |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18254349 | ATOMIZATION CORE, ATOMIZER COMPRISING SAME, AND ELECTRONIC CIGARETTE | SCHNEIDER, THOMAS FRANK | 5d |
| 18373591 | CIGARETTE ROD AND ATOMIZATION DEVICE | MULLEN, MICHAEL PATRICK | — |
| 18371420 | ELECTRONIC HEATING DEVICE | FERDOUSI, FAHMIDA NMN | — |
| 18242830 | ATOMIZATION DEVICE | LEE JR, WOODY A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1700 | 1 |
| 3761 | 1 |
| 1749 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18373591 | CIGARETTE ROD AND ATOMIZATION DEVICE | MULLEN, MICHAEL PATRICK | 1700 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 27, 2023 |
| 18371420 | ELECTRONIC HEATING DEVICE | FERDOUSI, FAHMIDA NMN | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 21, 2023 |
| 18242830 | ATOMIZATION DEVICE | LEE JR, WOODY A | 3761 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 06, 2023 |
| 18254349 | ATOMIZATION CORE, ATOMIZER COMPRISING SAME, AND ELECTRONIC CIGARETTE | SCHNEIDER, THOMAS FRANK | 1749 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 5d | Pending | Aug 04, 2023 |
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