Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
4 pending office actions • 3 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 8 patents granted in the last 365 days
Aalto University Foundation sr currently manages 4 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are distributed across 4 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units. This level of distribution indicates that the foundation's patent prosecution is spread across multiple reviewers and technical divisions, reflecting a broad scope of inquiry for its chemistry-related filings. With the pending actions active, the foundation must coordinate its responses across a relatively diverse administrative landscape within the patent office.
LARA LINH TRAN is identified as the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently handling 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Since there are 4 pending office actions and 4 distinct examiners, the workload is distributed among several individuals. The involvement of 3 distinct art units suggests that the applications are categorized into different administrative groups at the patent office, requiring the foundation to manage interactions across several technical units simultaneously. This structure suggests that the foundation's Chemistry & Materials research is being evaluated against the specific examination criteria of multiple specialized art units.
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% | +19.5% |
| DIAZ, MATTHEW R | 1 | 54.0% | +43.4% |
| ROELOFSE, CHRISTIAAN | 1 | 64.0% | +38.4% |
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 |
|---|---|
| 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 | — | §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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