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 • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Sinopec Guangzhou Engineering Co. Ltd. currently has 1 pending office action in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, HUANG, RYAN, who is the only individual currently reviewing the company's applications. Having 1 pending action suggests that the company's current patent activity is highly focused on a specific project.
The prosecution involves 1 distinct art unit. HUANG, RYAN is the busiest examiner with 1 pending action, which represents the total current workload for the company. This concentration in 1 distinct art unit under a single point of review means that the company's immediate patent success is tied to a specific examiner's interpretation. Practitioners should focus on the examination style of HUANG, RYAN, as there are no other art units to provide a baseline for comparison within the current portfolio. The 1 pending action defines the company's current interaction with the patent office.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HUANG, RYAN | 1 | 52.9% | +31.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18245625 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROLONGING CONTINUOUS OPERATION PERIOD OF METHANOL-TO-OLEFINS WATER WASHING PROCESS | HUANG, RYAN | 23d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1777 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18245625 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROLONGING CONTINUOUS OPERATION PERIOD OF METHANOL-TO-OLEFINS WATER WASHING PROCESS | HUANG, RYAN | 1777 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 23d overdue | Pending | Mar 16, 2023 |
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