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
Singapore Institute Of Technology currently has 1 pending office action within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This matter is assigned to a distinct examiner and is being reviewed within 1 distinct art unit. QIAO, HUIHONG is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, responsible for the 1 pending office action currently active.
The concentration of the workload into a single art unit and a single examiner means that the institution's current prosecution success in Chemistry & Materials is tied to this point of review. QIAO, HUIHONG handles the entirety of the current activity at the office. Practitioners should focus on this specific examiner's history, as there are no other active matters to provide a baseline for comparison within this portfolio.
With only a single pending matter, the administrative requirements are focused on a single front. The 1 distinct art unit involved will dictate the procedural norms for this case. Because the busiest examiner is the only one mentioned, their individual tendencies will be the primary factor in the prosecution of the current application in the Chemistry & Materials field.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| QIAO, HUIHONG | 1 | 71.2% | +25.0% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18556046 | A HIGH-PERFORMANCE NON-CONDUCTIVE POLYMER MATERIAL FOR ELIMINATION OF ELECTROSTATIC CHARGE AT SOURCE | QIAO, HUIHONG | 85d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18556046 | A HIGH-PERFORMANCE NON-CONDUCTIVE POLYMER MATERIAL FOR ELIMINATION OF ELECTROSTATIC CHARGE AT SOURCE | QIAO, HUIHONG | 85d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1763 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18556046 | A HIGH-PERFORMANCE NON-CONDUCTIVE POLYMER MATERIAL FOR ELIMINATION OF ELECTROSTATIC CHARGE AT SOURCE | QIAO, HUIHONG | 1763 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 85d overdue | Pending | Oct 18, 2023 |
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