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 • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Zhejiang Aegis New Materials Co. Ltd. is currently managing 1 pending office action within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This action represents the current active workload for the company's patent portfolio. The prosecution process involves 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, suggesting a highly centralized review of the company's technological innovations. This structure indicates that the company's immediate legal objectives are being addressed through a single administrative channel.
The busiest examiner identified is LIU, XUE H, who is currently handling 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Because LIU, XUE H is the 1 distinct examiner assigned to the portfolio, this individual is responsible for the review of the company's pending matter. The relationship between the examiner and the 1 pending office action highlights the focused nature of the current prosecution. There are no other examiners or art units involved in the company's active cases at this time.
Practitioners should tailor their strategy to the specific requirements of LIU, XUE H, as this examiner holds the 1 busiest examiner pending action. The involvement of 1 distinct art unit confirms that the subject matter is being evaluated within a specific technical area of Chemistry & Materials. With 1 pending office action, the company's path to patent allowance is currently concentrated within this single examiner's review process.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LIU, XUE H | 1 | 73.2% | +12.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18201398 | PROCESS FOR PREPARING PREPREG BY CONTINUOUS METHOD | LIU, XUE H | 15d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18201398 | PROCESS FOR PREPARING PREPREG BY CONTINUOUS METHOD | LIU, XUE H | 15d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1742 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18201398 | PROCESS FOR PREPARING PREPREG BY CONTINUOUS METHOD | LIU, XUE H | 1742 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 15d | Pending | May 24, 2023 |
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