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
Sinopec Engineering (Group) Co. Ltd. currently manages 1 pending office action in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This prosecution is handled by 1 distinct examiner within 1 distinct art unit, reflecting a centralized examination process for the company's current filings. This focus suggests that the pending matter is likely related to a core engineering or chemical process within their specialized field, requiring deep technical alignment with the assigned department.
The busiest examiner for the portfolio is NGUYEN, TAM M, who has 1 busiest examiner pending action. This single action accounts for the 1 pending office action currently active for the company. With all activity confined to 1 distinct art unit, the prosecution team can tailor their responses to the specific technical expectations and procedural norms associated with that particular examiner. For the applicant, this means that the technical arguments presented in this action will likely set the precedent for any future filings within the same chemistry-related art unit.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NGUYEN, TAM M | 1 | 77.1% | +11.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18437252 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR TREATING OIL GAS | NGUYEN, TAM M | 85d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1771 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18437252 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR TREATING OIL GAS | NGUYEN, TAM M | 1771 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 85d | Pending | Feb 09, 2024 |
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