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
Sterile State Inc. is currently navigating 1 pending office action within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This action is being processed in 1 distinct art unit, indicating a specific technical focus for the company's current intellectual property efforts. The prosecution involves a single distinct examiner, which creates a single point of contact for the pending matter.
CHEN, CHANGRU is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently handling the pending office action. This represents the entirety of the company's active workload at the patent office. With only the distinct examiner and a single pending office action, the outcome of the current prosecution phase is entirely dependent on the review conducted by CHEN, CHANGRU. The alignment of this action within the Chemistry & Materials field suggests a targeted approach to securing patent rights.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHEN, CHANGRU | 1 | 48.1% | +41.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18693129 | COMPOSITION AND COMPOSITE ARTICLE FOR FORMING NITRIC OXIDE | CHEN, CHANGRU | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18693129 | COMPOSITION AND COMPOSITE ARTICLE FOR FORMING NITRIC OXIDE | CHEN, CHANGRU | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1796 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18693129 | COMPOSITION AND COMPOSITE ARTICLE FOR FORMING NITRIC OXIDE | CHEN, CHANGRU | 1796 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 18, 2024 |
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