Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Computing & Software • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
5 pending office actions • 4 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 11 patents granted in the last 365 days
Taiwan Textile Research Institute has 4 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are distributed among 4 distinct examiners across 3 distinct art units. This distribution indicates that the institute's current filings are being reviewed by a diverse group of examiners, even when the art units are closely related. The involvement of 3 distinct art units suggests that the institute's research in Chemistry & Materials covers several different technical classifications, each with its own set of examination standards.
The busiest examiner, HU, XIAOQIN, is handling 1 pending office action. This represents 1 of the 4 total pending office actions. With 4 distinct examiners each managing a portion of the workload, the institute must adapt to several different examiner styles within the 3 distinct art units involved. This decentralized prosecution requires the applicant to be flexible and responsive to varying examiner interpretations. Practitioners should note that no single examiner has a dominant influence over the 4 pending office actions, which may reduce the risk associated with any one examiner's specific tendencies.
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 (20%) |
| §103 only | 1 (20%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (40%) |
| No statute on record | 1 (20%) |
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% |
| CHOI, PETER Y | 1 | 20.6% | +33.0% |
| FLORES JR, DONALD M | 1 | 76.9% | +27.3% |
| NGUYEN, HA S | 1 | 58.7% | -21.0% |
| BROUGHTON, SHAWN CURTIS | 1 | 44.0% | +32.0% |
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 | — |
| 18760135 | FABRICATING METHOD OF HEAT-INSULATING AND UV-RESISTANT FABRIC | CHOI, PETER Y | — |
| 18760151 | ARTIFICIAL LEATHER AND MANUFACTURE METHOD THEREOF | FLORES JR, DONALD M | — |
| 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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18821394 | FABRIC SEARCHING SYSTEM | HU, XIAOQIN | — |
| 18760135 | FABRICATING METHOD OF HEAT-INSULATING AND UV-RESISTANT FABRIC | CHOI, PETER Y | — |
| 18760151 | ARTIFICIAL LEATHER AND MANUFACTURE METHOD THEREOF | FLORES JR, DONALD M | — |
| 17731298 | WEARABLE ELECTROMYOGRAPHY DEVICE | BROUGHTON, SHAWN CURTIS | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2168 | 1 |
| 1786 | 1 |
| 1781 | 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 |
| 18760135 | FABRICATING METHOD OF HEAT-INSULATING AND UV-RESISTANT FABRIC | CHOI, PETER Y | 1786 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 01, 2024 |
| 18760151 | ARTIFICIAL LEATHER AND MANUFACTURE METHOD THEREOF | FLORES JR, DONALD M | 1781 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 01, 2024 |
| 18619437 | TEMPERATURE-SENSITIVE AND HUMIDITY-REGULATING FIBER AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF | NGUYEN, HA S | — | — | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 28, 2024 |
| 17731298 | WEARABLE ELECTROMYOGRAPHY DEVICE | BROUGHTON, SHAWN CURTIS | 3791 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 28, 2022 |
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