Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
7 pending office actions • 4 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 20 patents granted in the last 365 days
Shenzhen Verdewell Technology Limited currently faces 7 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. Each of these 7 actions is assigned to a different person, resulting in 7 distinct examiners for the portfolio. This one-to-one ratio between actions and examiners indicates a diverse range of perspectives during the examination process. The portfolio is active across 4 distinct art units, reflecting a broad technical footprint within the sector.
MOORE, STEPHANIE LYNN is the busiest examiner, though this individual is only responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Because every examiner holds exactly one action, the workload is distributed across the 7 distinct examiners involved in these 4 art units. This distribution suggests that the 7 pending office actions are likely progressing independently of one another. Practitioners should be prepared to manage 7 separate examiner relationships across 4 distinct art units to advance this portfolio.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 (14%) |
| §102 only | 2 (29%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (57%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MOORE, STEPHANIE LYNN | 1 | 61.0% | +38.4% |
| SCHNEIDER, THOMAS FRANK | 1 | 48.6% | +35.6% |
| NGUYEN, SONNY V | 1 | 36.5% | +27.2% |
| NGUYEN, PHU HOANG | 1 | 65.9% | +19.7% |
| WILL, KATHERINE A | 1 | 67.2% | +20.3% |
| GRAY, LINDA LAMEY | 1 | 82.8% | +16.9% |
| COLLINS, DANIEL S. | 1 | 85.2% | +9.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18341284 | ELECTRONIC VAPORIZATION DEVICE AND HOLDER ASSEMBLY | COLLINS, DANIEL S. | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18461319 | ELECTRONIC VAPORIZATION DEVICE AND VAPORIZER THEREOF | MOORE, STEPHANIE LYNN | 29d |
| 18461230 | ELECTRONIC VAPORIZATION DEVICE AND VAPORIZER THEREOF | NGUYEN, SONNY V | — |
| 18448154 | VAPORIZER AND VAPORIZATION DEVICE | WILL, KATHERINE A | — |
| 18342053 | VAPORIZATION ASSEMBLY, VAPORIZER, AND ELECTRONIC VAPORIZATION DEVICE | GRAY, LINDA LAMEY | — |
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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18461345 | ELECTRONIC VAPORIZATION DEVICE AND VAPORIZER THEREOF | SCHNEIDER, THOMAS FRANK | 4d overdue |
| 18461319 | ELECTRONIC VAPORIZATION DEVICE AND VAPORIZER THEREOF | MOORE, STEPHANIE LYNN | 29d |
| 18461230 | ELECTRONIC VAPORIZATION DEVICE AND VAPORIZER THEREOF | NGUYEN, SONNY V | — |
| 18448879 | ELECTRONIC VAPORIZATION DEVICE AND VAPORIZER | NGUYEN, PHU HOANG | — |
| 18448154 | VAPORIZER AND VAPORIZATION DEVICE | WILL, KATHERINE A | — |
| 18342053 | VAPORIZATION ASSEMBLY, VAPORIZER, AND ELECTRONIC VAPORIZATION DEVICE | GRAY, LINDA LAMEY | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1747 | 4 |
| 1749 | 1 |
| 1745 | 1 |
| 3745 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18461319 | ELECTRONIC VAPORIZATION DEVICE AND VAPORIZER THEREOF | MOORE, STEPHANIE LYNN | 1747 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 29d | Pending | Sep 05, 2023 |
| 18461345 | ELECTRONIC VAPORIZATION DEVICE AND VAPORIZER THEREOF | SCHNEIDER, THOMAS FRANK | 1749 | §103 | Final Rejection | 4d overdue | Pending | Sep 05, 2023 |
| 18461230 | ELECTRONIC VAPORIZATION DEVICE AND VAPORIZER THEREOF | NGUYEN, SONNY V | 1747 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 05, 2023 |
| 18448879 | ELECTRONIC VAPORIZATION DEVICE AND VAPORIZER | NGUYEN, PHU HOANG | 1747 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 11, 2023 |
| 18448154 | VAPORIZER AND VAPORIZATION DEVICE | WILL, KATHERINE A | 1747 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 10, 2023 |
| 18342053 | VAPORIZATION ASSEMBLY, VAPORIZER, AND ELECTRONIC VAPORIZATION DEVICE | GRAY, LINDA LAMEY | 1745 | §102§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 27, 2023 |
| 18341284 | ELECTRONIC VAPORIZATION DEVICE AND HOLDER ASSEMBLY | COLLINS, DANIEL S. | 3745 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 26, 2023 |
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