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
Xiamen Hongjiweiye Industrial Co. Ltd. currently manages 1 pending office action within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This single active matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner working within 1 distinct art unit. The concentration of the portfolio suggests a specific technical focus for the company's current prosecution efforts. This presence in 1 distinct art unit indicates that the applicant is not currently navigating multiple sets of internal guidelines or varying supervisory styles within the patent office.
KELSEY C GRACE is identified as the busiest examiner for this portfolio, currently overseeing 1 pending office action. Because the busiest examiner pending count of 1 matches the total of 1 pending office action for the company, the entire active workload is centralized under a single individual. This creates a streamlined interaction for the applicant, as all current feedback originates from 1 source. Practitioners can focus their strategy on the specific preferences and history of this 1 distinct examiner without the need to reconcile conflicting feedback from other active matters.
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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GRACE, KELSEY C | 1 | 80.3% | +12.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18824015 | PRE-FORMING MOLD, FORMING MOLD AND PREPARATION METHOD FOR CARBON FIBER COMPOSITE MATERIAL | GRACE, KELSEY C | 31d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18824015 | PRE-FORMING MOLD, FORMING MOLD AND PREPARATION METHOD FOR CARBON FIBER COMPOSITE MATERIAL | GRACE, KELSEY C | 31d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1742 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18824015 | PRE-FORMING MOLD, FORMING MOLD AND PREPARATION METHOD FOR CARBON FIBER COMPOSITE MATERIAL | GRACE, KELSEY C | 1742 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 31d overdue | Pending | Sep 04, 2024 |
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