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 • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Taroko International Co. Ltd. is managing 1 pending office action in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This case is assigned to a distinct examiner. The company's active prosecution is restricted to 1 distinct art unit. This indicates a narrow and focused approach to its current patent filings within the chemistry sector. Such a concentrated structure allows for a very specific legal strategy without the need to coordinate across different technical classifications or multiple examiner preferences.
ZHEREN J YANG is the busiest examiner for the company, responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending office action. As the total number of pending office actions is 1, this examiner handles the entire active docket. This creates a simplified prosecution landscape where all current interactions are limited to one examiner and the 1 distinct art unit. Practitioners should focus their efforts on this matter, as it represents the full extent of the company's current activity. The outcome of this proceeding will define the company's immediate patent position in the Chemistry & Materials sector.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| YANG, ZHEREN J | 1 | 57.4% | +52.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18924847 | HEAT-RESISTANT PROTECTIVE SHIELD | YANG, ZHEREN J | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1781 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18924847 | HEAT-RESISTANT PROTECTIVE SHIELD | YANG, ZHEREN J | 1781 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 23, 2024 |
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