Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg maintains 2 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are distributed between 2 distinct examiners, providing multiple perspectives on the portfolio. Both pending actions are situated within 1 distinct art unit, centralizing the technical evaluation under a single supervisory structure.
ISHIZUKA, YOSHIHISA is the busiest examiner, currently managing 1 pending office action. This means the workload is split among the 2 distinct examiners involved, as each is responsible for exactly half of the pending office actions. The presence of 2 pending office actions within a single art unit allows for a consistent application of examination standards.
The 2 pending office actions are split between the 2 distinct examiners, which allows the university to engage with multiple individuals while remaining within the same Chemistry & Materials art unit. For the practitioner, this means that while the art unit remains the same, the arguments must be tailored to the specific preferences of 2 distinct examiners. This balance defines the current prosecution landscape.
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) | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ISHIZUKA, YOSHIHISA | 1 | 68.8% | +19.5% |
| GERHARD, ALISON CLAIRE | 1 | 39.5% | +24.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17790813 | Assembly for Optically Preconditioning an Optically Activable Biological Sample | GERHARD, ALISON CLAIRE | 28d overdue |
| 18657516 | SENSOR ARRAYS, METHOD FOR OPERATING A SENSOR ARRAY AND A COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR PERFORMING A METHOD FOR OPERATING A SENSOR ARRAY | ISHIZUKA, YOSHIHISA | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17790813 | Assembly for Optically Preconditioning an Optically Activable Biological Sample | GERHARD, ALISON CLAIRE | 28d overdue |
| 18657516 | SENSOR ARRAYS, METHOD FOR OPERATING A SENSOR ARRAY AND A COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR PERFORMING A METHOD FOR OPERATING A SENSOR ARRAY | ISHIZUKA, YOSHIHISA | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1797 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18657516 | SENSOR ARRAYS, METHOD FOR OPERATING A SENSOR ARRAY AND A COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR PERFORMING A METHOD FOR OPERATING A SENSOR ARRAY | ISHIZUKA, YOSHIHISA | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 07, 2024 |
| 17790813 | Assembly for Optically Preconditioning an Optically Activable Biological Sample | GERHARD, ALISON CLAIRE | 1797 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 28d overdue | Pending | Jul 05, 2022 |
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