Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
4 pending office actions • 1 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Sino-Energy Huayuan Floating Wind Institute currently manages 5 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This portfolio is concentrated within 1 distinct art unit, despite being distributed across 4 distinct examiners. This concentration suggests a narrow technical focus for the institute's intellectual property strategy. The alignment of filings within 1 distinct art unit indicates that the company's research and development efforts are specialized within the Chemistry & Materials field.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is HEVEY, JOHN A, who is responsible for 2 pending office actions. This count of 2 represents a portion of the total 5 pending office actions. The remaining pending office actions are handled by the other 4 distinct examiners. Each of these examiners operates within the same art unit, which may lead to a more uniform examination experience for the applicant.
Practitioners should note that while the work is spread across 4 distinct examiners, the 1 distinct art unit designation implies a consistent set of examination guidelines and prior art references. The presence of 5 pending office actions indicates an active prosecution phase for the company. Managing the portfolio across 4 distinct examiners requires coordination to ensure consistent arguments are presented to the office.
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 | 4 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HEVEY, JOHN A | 2 | 61.6% | +19.9% |
| STILES, JACOB BENJAMIN | 1 | 0.0% | +0.0% |
| MCGUTHRY BANKS, TIMA MICHELE | 1 | 81.8% | +2.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18434830 | HIGH-STRENGTH STEEL WITH EXCELLENT NEUTRAL AQUEOUS MEDIUM CORROSION RESISTANCE AS WELL AS PREPARATION METHOD AND APPLICATION THEREOF | MCGUTHRY BANKS, TIMA MICHELE | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18436044 | COMPOSITE ADDITIVE FOR FORMING INCLUSIONS WITH CORE-SHELL STRUCTURE, PREPARATION METHOD AND SMELTING METHOD | STILES, JACOB BENJAMIN | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18619231 | La-ELEMENT MICRO-ALLOYED AlCrFeNiTi SERIES BULK ALLOY WITH HIGH CORROSION RESISTANCE AND WEAR RESISTANCE, AND PREPARATION METHOD THEREFORE AND APPLICATIONS THEREOF | HEVEY, JOHN A | — |
| 18619233 | Nb-ELEMENT MICRO-ALLOYED BULK MULTI-COMPONENT ALLOY WITH HIGH-TEMPERATURE RESISTANCE AND WEAR RESISTANCE, PREPARATION METHOD THEREFOR, AND APPLICATIONS THEREOF | HEVEY, JOHN A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1733 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18619231 | La-ELEMENT MICRO-ALLOYED AlCrFeNiTi SERIES BULK ALLOY WITH HIGH CORROSION RESISTANCE AND WEAR RESISTANCE, AND PREPARATION METHOD THEREFORE AND APPLICATIONS THEREOF | HEVEY, JOHN A | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 28, 2024 |
| 18619233 | Nb-ELEMENT MICRO-ALLOYED BULK MULTI-COMPONENT ALLOY WITH HIGH-TEMPERATURE RESISTANCE AND WEAR RESISTANCE, PREPARATION METHOD THEREFOR, AND APPLICATIONS THEREOF | HEVEY, JOHN A | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 28, 2024 |
| 18436044 | COMPOSITE ADDITIVE FOR FORMING INCLUSIONS WITH CORE-SHELL STRUCTURE, PREPARATION METHOD AND SMELTING METHOD | STILES, JACOB BENJAMIN | 1733 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 08, 2024 |
| 18434830 | HIGH-STRENGTH STEEL WITH EXCELLENT NEUTRAL AQUEOUS MEDIUM CORROSION RESISTANCE AS WELL AS PREPARATION METHOD AND APPLICATION THEREOF | MCGUTHRY BANKS, TIMA MICHELE | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 07, 2024 |
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