Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 04, 2026

Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg

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

Analysis

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.

Written from this page's own data; every figure is computed from USPTO records and verified before publication.

Portfolio Summary

1
Total Pending OAs
1
Non-Final OAs
0
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Case Difficulty Mix

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.

0
Hard (0%)
1
Medium (100%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only1 (100%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

1
Life Sciences
100% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
0
Mechanical / Eng
0% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

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.

10 h
Manual time on pending OAs
2 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
4 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.1 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
FAN, LYNN Y 1 47.3% +49.5%

Interview Candidates (1)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18708545 METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR TREATING MICROGLIAL DYSFUNCTION AND IMPROVING METABOLIC DYSFUNCTION FAN, LYNN Y —

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1759 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
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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