Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Suzhou 3N Biological Technology Co. Ltd. currently manages 2 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These active matters are assigned to 2 distinct examiners, but both are located within 1 distinct art unit. This concentration within 1 distinct art unit indicates that the company's current filings are technically similar, despite being reviewed by different individuals.
The busiest examiner for the company is COLLINS, DARRYL J, who is handling 1 pending office action. Since the busiest examiner pending count is 1 and there are 2 pending office actions in total, the workload is evenly split between the 2 distinct examiners. This distribution means that no single examiner is responsible for more than 1 active case for the company at this time.
For a patent practitioner, this data suggests that Suzhou 3N Biological Technology Co. Ltd. must manage 2 separate examiner relationships within the same art unit. The focus on Chemistry & Materials is consistent across the 2 pending office actions. This setup requires a prosecution strategy that accounts for the specific review styles of 2 distinct examiners while navigating the standards of 1 distinct art unit.
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) | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| COLLINS, DARRYL J | 1 | 89.1% | +4.9% |
| BARR, MICHAEL E | 1 | 35.6% | +23.6% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18813717 | ATOMIZATION GLASSES | COLLINS, DARRYL J | — |
| 18018592 | CONTACT LENS CLEANER, AND PROTEIN REMOVAL AND STERILIZATION METHOD BY MEANS OF ELECTROPHORESIS DISSOCIATION | BARR, MICHAEL E | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18018592 | CONTACT LENS CLEANER, AND PROTEIN REMOVAL AND STERILIZATION METHOD BY MEANS OF ELECTROPHORESIS DISSOCIATION | BARR, MICHAEL E | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1711 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18813717 | ATOMIZATION GLASSES | COLLINS, DARRYL J | — | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 23, 2024 |
| 18018592 | CONTACT LENS CLEANER, AND PROTEIN REMOVAL AND STERILIZATION METHOD BY MEANS OF ELECTROPHORESIS DISSOCIATION | BARR, MICHAEL E | 1711 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 30, 2023 |
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