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 • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg currently faces 1 pending office action in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This single action is being reviewed by 1 distinct examiner, FAN, LYNN Y, who is the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action. The concentration of the portfolio's current activity within 1 distinct art unit indicates a specific technical focus for their pending intellectual property.
With only 1 distinct examiner assigned, the university's prosecution experience is currently uniform based on the individual examiner's past actions. The 1 pending office action suggests a low volume of active applications reaching the examination stage. Practitioners can focus their strategy on the specific requirements of FAN, LYNN Y, as there are no other examiners to consider. This alignment in 1 distinct art unit simplifies the administrative burden of managing the portfolio's current legal standing at the USPTO.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FAN, LYNN Y | 1 | 47.3% | +49.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18708545 | METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR TREATING MICROGLIAL DYSFUNCTION AND IMPROVING METABOLIC DYSFUNCTION | FAN, LYNN Y | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1759 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18708545 | METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR TREATING MICROGLIAL DYSFUNCTION AND IMPROVING METABOLIC DYSFUNCTION | FAN, LYNN Y | 1759 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 08, 2024 |
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