Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Zibo City Luzhong Refractories Co. Ltd. has 1 pending office action in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, AUER, LAURA A, who is the busiest examiner for the portfolio. The prosecution is occurring within 1 distinct art unit, reflecting a specific and narrow focus within the chemistry sector. This arrangement indicates that the company is concentrating its current intellectual property efforts on a single point of review.
The busiest_examiner_pending count for AUER, LAURA A is 1, which represents the total number of pending office actions for the company. This indicates that the company's current patent prosecution is entirely centralized under one examiner and one art unit. Practitioners should note that the outcome of the company's current efforts in the Chemistry & Materials area depends on this single interaction. This centralization simplifies the communication process but also increases the impact of this specific examiner's perspective on the company's overall strategy.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| AUER, LAURA A | 1 | 49.9% | +34.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18290391 | CA6-BASED REFRACTORY MATERIAL WITH MEDIUM VOLUME DENSITY, PREPARATION METHOD THEREFOR, AND USE THEREOF | AUER, LAURA A | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18290391 | CA6-BASED REFRACTORY MATERIAL WITH MEDIUM VOLUME DENSITY, PREPARATION METHOD THEREFOR, AND USE THEREOF | AUER, LAURA A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1783 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18290391 | CA6-BASED REFRACTORY MATERIAL WITH MEDIUM VOLUME DENSITY, PREPARATION METHOD THEREFOR, AND USE THEREOF | AUER, LAURA A | 1783 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 13, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialZibo City Luzhong Refractories Co. Ltd. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Laura A Auer has the most, with 1 of Zibo City Luzhong Refractories Co. Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
