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
Yangtze River Delta Physics Research Center Co. Ltd. currently faces 1 pending office action in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This portfolio activity is concentrated in 1 distinct art unit, showing the focus for the company's current patenting efforts. The involvement of a distinct examiner indicates that the prosecution process is not currently diversified across different personnel at the USPTO. This structure suggests that the applicant is prioritizing a specific technical innovation that falls under the jurisdiction of a single specialized group.
OTERO, KENNETH MAX is the busiest examiner for this company, holding the pending office action. Because the portfolio contains only a single examiner and 1 distinct art unit, the outcome of the current prosecution depends on a single set of examiner interactions. This concentration within the Chemistry & Materials sector suggests that the applicant is pursuing a specific technical path that does not yet require broader distribution across the patent office's administrative structure. The pending office action represents the entirety of the company's current active risk and opportunity in the patent system.
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 |
|---|---|
| §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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| OTERO, KENNETH MAX | 1 | 52.4% | +43.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18040706 | SULFIDE SOLID ELECTROLYTE MATERIAL, GAS-PHASE SYNTHESIS METHOD FOR MATERIALS THEREOF AND APPLICATION THEREOF | OTERO, KENNETH MAX | 30d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1725 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18040706 | SULFIDE SOLID ELECTROLYTE MATERIAL, GAS-PHASE SYNTHESIS METHOD FOR MATERIALS THEREOF AND APPLICATION THEREOF | OTERO, KENNETH MAX | 1725 | §103 | Final Rejection | 30d | Pending | Feb 06, 2023 |
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