Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
6 pending office actions • 5 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 12 patents granted in the last 365 days
Taiwan Textile Research Institute currently manages 5 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These 5 actions are distributed among 5 distinct examiners, so no examiner is handling more than one pending matter. The portfolio is also spread across 5 distinct art units, indicating that each action is being reviewed by a separate technical division within the patent office. This 5 distinct art units count shows distribution in the prosecution process.
The busiest examiner is HU, XIAOQIN, who is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending office action. This 1 busiest examiner pending office action is one of the 5 pending office actions total. Because the 5 distinct examiners are assigned to these actions, there is no centralization of prosecution for this portfolio. Practitioners must manage separate interactions across the 5 distinct art units. The 1 busiest examiner pending office action for HU, XIAOQIN is representative of the workload assigned to each examiner involved in the Chemistry & Materials area.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (17%) |
| §103 only | 2 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (33%) |
| No statute on record | 1 (17%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HU, XIAOQIN | 1 | 61.5% | +56.2% |
| FLORES JR, DONALD M | 1 | 77.0% | +26.9% |
| CHOI, PETER Y | 1 | 20.4% | +32.5% |
| NGUYEN, HA S | 1 | 58.5% | -20.7% |
| FIGG, LAURA B | 1 | 58.7% | +23.7% |
| BROUGHTON, SHAWN CURTIS | 1 | 42.3% | +33.9% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18821394 | FABRIC SEARCHING SYSTEM | HU, XIAOQIN | — |
| 18760151 | ARTIFICIAL LEATHER AND MANUFACTURE METHOD THEREOF | FLORES JR, DONALD M | — |
| 18760135 | FABRICATING METHOD OF HEAT-INSULATING AND UV-RESISTANT FABRIC | CHOI, PETER Y | — |
| 17731298 | WEARABLE ELECTROMYOGRAPHY DEVICE | BROUGHTON, SHAWN CURTIS | — |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18489911 | HOMOGENEOUS COMPOSITE SUBSTRATE | FIGG, LAURA B | 70d |
| 18821394 | FABRIC SEARCHING SYSTEM | HU, XIAOQIN | — |
| 18760151 | ARTIFICIAL LEATHER AND MANUFACTURE METHOD THEREOF | FLORES JR, DONALD M | — |
| 18760135 | FABRICATING METHOD OF HEAT-INSULATING AND UV-RESISTANT FABRIC | CHOI, PETER Y | — |
| 17731298 | WEARABLE ELECTROMYOGRAPHY DEVICE | BROUGHTON, SHAWN CURTIS | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1781 | 2 |
| 2168 | 1 |
| 1786 | 1 |
| 1766 | 1 |
| 3791 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18821394 | FABRIC SEARCHING SYSTEM | HU, XIAOQIN | 2168 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 30, 2024 |
| 18760151 | ARTIFICIAL LEATHER AND MANUFACTURE METHOD THEREOF | FLORES JR, DONALD M | 1781 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 01, 2024 |
| 18760135 | FABRICATING METHOD OF HEAT-INSULATING AND UV-RESISTANT FABRIC | CHOI, PETER Y | 1786 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 01, 2024 |
| 18619437 | TEMPERATURE-SENSITIVE AND HUMIDITY-REGULATING FIBER AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF | NGUYEN, HA S | 1766 | — | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 28, 2024 |
| 18489911 | HOMOGENEOUS COMPOSITE SUBSTRATE | FIGG, LAURA B | 1781 | §103 | Final Rejection | 70d | Pending | Oct 19, 2023 |
| 17731298 | WEARABLE ELECTROMYOGRAPHY DEVICE | BROUGHTON, SHAWN CURTIS | 3791 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 28, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialTaiwan Textile Research Institute has 6 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 5 art units and 6 examiners.
Xiaoqin Hu has the most, with 1 of Taiwan Textile Research Institute's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
