Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
South China Inst Of Environmental Sciences Mee Ecology And Environment Emergency Inst Of Ecology currently has 1 pending office action in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This matter is being reviewed by 1 distinct examiner in 1 distinct art unit. This indicates a highly concentrated prosecution effort for the company's current filings. The focus within 1 distinct art unit suggests that the technology being pursued is specialized and falls under a specific set of examination guidelines within the chemistry field.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is BORTOLI, JONATHAN, who is overseeing the 1 pending office action. Since there is only 1 distinct examiner involved, the company's current interactions with the patent office are limited to a single point of contact. Practitioners should analyze the specific requirements of this examiner to manage the pending matter effectively. This centralized prosecution structure allows for a very targeted strategy, but it also means that the company does not have other pending matters to balance out any difficulties encountered with this 1 distinct examiner. Effectively managing this 1 pending office action is critical for the company's current intellectual property objectives.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BORTOLI, JONATHAN | 1 | 76.4% | +40.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18334365 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR SYNCHRONOUS EXTRACTION AND ANALYSIS OF MULTIPLE TRACE EMERGING ORGANIC CONTAMINANTS IN HAIRS, AND APPLICATION | BORTOLI, JONATHAN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1797 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18334365 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR SYNCHRONOUS EXTRACTION AND ANALYSIS OF MULTIPLE TRACE EMERGING ORGANIC CONTAMINANTS IN HAIRS, AND APPLICATION | BORTOLI, JONATHAN | 1797 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 13, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialSouth China Inst Of Environmental Sciences Mee Ecology And Environment Emergency Inst Of Ecology has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Jonathan Bortoli has the most, with 1 of South China Inst Of Environmental Sciences Mee Ecology And Environment Emergency Inst Of Ecology's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
