Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Tomi(Chengdu) Applied Technology Research Institute Company Limited has 1 pending office action in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. The portfolio's current activity is limited to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, reflecting a narrow administrative scope. This concentration in 1 distinct art unit suggests that the company's active patent work is focused on a specific technical niche. With 1 pending office action, the company can dedicate its resources to resolving this single matter without the complexity of multiple active cases.
The busiest examiner, ARMSTRONG, KAREN JOYCE, holds 1 busiest examiner pending office action. This examiner is responsible for the company's full workload of 1 pending office action, centralizing the prosecution process within a single office contact. Since the busiest examiner pending count is 1, which is the same as the total number of pending office actions, ARMSTRONG, KAREN JOYCE is the only examiner currently reviewing the company's applications. There are no other distinct examiners or art units currently influencing the portfolio, so practitioners should focus on the specific preferences of this examiner.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ARMSTRONG, KAREN JOYCE | 1 | 66.7% | +11.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17904171 | NANO-SILICON AGGLOMERATE COMPOSITE NEGATIVE ELECTRODE MATERIAL AND METHOD FOR PREPARING THE SAME | ARMSTRONG, KAREN JOYCE | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17904171 | NANO-SILICON AGGLOMERATE COMPOSITE NEGATIVE ELECTRODE MATERIAL AND METHOD FOR PREPARING THE SAME | ARMSTRONG, KAREN JOYCE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1726 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17904171 | NANO-SILICON AGGLOMERATE COMPOSITE NEGATIVE ELECTRODE MATERIAL AND METHOD FOR PREPARING THE SAME | ARMSTRONG, KAREN JOYCE | 1726 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 12, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialTomi(Chengdu) Applied Technology Research Institute Company Limited has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Karen Joyce Armstrong has the most, with 1 of Tomi(Chengdu) Applied Technology Research Institute Company Limited's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
