Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
3 pending office actions • 1 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
Sinopec Research Institute Of Petroleum Processing Co. Ltd. has 3 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These matters are distributed among 3 distinct examiners. All current prosecution is contained within 1 distinct art unit, indicating a high degree of technical focus despite the involvement of multiple examiners.
TOOMER, CEPHIA D is the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action. The concentration in 1 distinct art unit allows for a specialized approach to the technical arguments presented across the 3 pending office actions. Practitioners should be aware that while the technical group is the same, the 3 distinct examiners may have different subjective interpretations of the prior art.
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 |
|---|---|
| §112 only | 1 (33%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TOOMER, CEPHIA D | 1 | 74.4% | +2.5% |
| VASISTH, VISHAL V | 1 | 72.3% | +33.4% |
| GOLOBOY, JAMES C | 1 | 63.7% | +8.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18698150 | UNSUPPORTED BIMETALLIC HYDROGENATION CATALYST, ITS PREPARATION AND APPLICATION THEREOF | GOLOBOY, JAMES C | 30d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18698574 | UNSUPPORTED HYDROGENATION CATALYST, ITS PREPARATION AND APPLICATION THEREOF | VASISTH, VISHAL V | 75d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1771 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18880024 | PROCESS FOR PRODUCING ADAMANTANE | TOOMER, CEPHIA D | — | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 30, 2024 |
| 18698574 | UNSUPPORTED HYDROGENATION CATALYST, ITS PREPARATION AND APPLICATION THEREOF | VASISTH, VISHAL V | 1771 | §102DP | Final Rejection | 75d | Pending | Apr 04, 2024 |
| 18698150 | UNSUPPORTED BIMETALLIC HYDROGENATION CATALYST, ITS PREPARATION AND APPLICATION THEREOF | GOLOBOY, JAMES C | 1771 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 30d | Pending | Apr 03, 2024 |
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