Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Xgas AS is currently active in the Chemistry & Materials technology area with a portfolio that includes 1 pending office action. This action is assigned to CHU, YONG LIANG, who is the busiest examiner for the company. The prosecution is currently limited to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, which suggests a targeted approach to securing intellectual property in the Chemistry & Materials sector.
The data indicates that CHU, YONG LIANG is handling 1 pending action, which is the same as the total number of pending office actions for the company. This relationship between the busiest examiner's workload and the total portfolio workload shows a concentration of the company's current legal efforts. With 1 distinct art unit involved, the company is interacting with a specific segment of the patent office's Chemistry & Materials division.
For those managing this portfolio, the 1 pending office action under 1 distinct examiner means that the prosecution strategy is not currently diversified. The reliance on CHU, YONG LIANG for the 1 pending action emphasizes the role of this specific examiner in the company's current trajectory. Because there is 1 distinct art unit, the procedural environment is consistent across the entire active portfolio of 1 pending office action.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHU, YONG LIANG | 1 | 74.9% | +3.2% |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1731 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18573001 | Apparatus and Method for the Production of Hydrogen | CHU, YONG LIANG | 1731 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 21, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialXgas AS has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Yong Liang Chu has the most, with 1 of Xgas AS's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
