Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
4 pending office actions • 4 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 7 patents granted in the last 365 days
Aalto University Foundation sr currently has 4 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are spread across 4 distinct examiners and 4 distinct art units, showing a high level of administrative and technical diversity. This distribution suggests that the foundation is pursuing a wide range of chemical or material innovations that fall under different specialized divisions.
TRAN, LARA LINH is identified as the busiest examiner, though they only hold 1 busiest examiner pending action. This indicates that the 4 pending office actions are evenly distributed among different examiners, with no single individual dominating the workload. The use of 4 distinct art units requires a legal strategy to manage the specific standards and expectations of each different division within the Chemistry & Materials sector.
The presence of 4 distinct examiners provides the foundation with a broad range of feedback on its technical disclosures. Because each of the 4 pending office actions is in a different art unit, the foundation must stay informed about multiple sets of administrative trends. This diversified approach reduces the risk associated with any single examiner but increases the complexity of managing the overall prosecution strategy.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (25%) |
| §103 only | 2 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (25%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TRAN, LARA LINH | 1 | 16.7% | +90.9% |
| NIA, FATEMEH ESFANDIARI | 1 | 71.5% | +19.9% |
| DIAZ, MATTHEW R | 1 | 54.1% | +42.9% |
| ROELOFSE, CHRISTIAAN | 1 | 65.4% | +36.6% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17927938 | Water-based Lignin-Particle-Epoxy Surface Coatings, Thermosets and Adhesives | ROELOFSE, CHRISTIAAN | 22d |
| 18294634 | METHOD FOR LOCALISING ACTIVATION UNDER TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION | TRAN, LARA LINH | — |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17928294 | Phase change polysaccharide-based bio-complexes with tunable thermophysical properties and preparation method thereof | DIAZ, MATTHEW R | 30d overdue |
| 17927938 | Water-based Lignin-Particle-Epoxy Surface Coatings, Thermosets and Adhesives | ROELOFSE, CHRISTIAAN | 22d |
| 18294634 | METHOD FOR LOCALISING ACTIVATION UNDER TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION | TRAN, LARA LINH | — |
| 18022178 | Method of characterizing the properties of a surface | NIA, FATEMEH ESFANDIARI | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3791 | 1 |
| 2855 | 1 |
| 1761 | 1 |
| 1762 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18294634 | METHOD FOR LOCALISING ACTIVATION UNDER TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION | TRAN, LARA LINH | 3791 | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 02, 2024 |
| 18022178 | Method of characterizing the properties of a surface | NIA, FATEMEH ESFANDIARI | 2855 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 20, 2023 |
| 17928294 | Phase change polysaccharide-based bio-complexes with tunable thermophysical properties and preparation method thereof | DIAZ, MATTHEW R | 1761 | §103 | Final Rejection | 30d overdue | Pending | Nov 29, 2022 |
| 17927938 | Water-based Lignin-Particle-Epoxy Surface Coatings, Thermosets and Adhesives | ROELOFSE, CHRISTIAAN | 1762 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 22d | Pending | Nov 28, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialAalto University Foundation sr has 4 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 4 art units and 4 examiners.
Lara Linh Tran has the most, with 1 of Aalto University Foundation sr's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
