Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
5 pending office actions • 2 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 20 patents granted in the last 365 days
Central South University is navigating 5 pending office actions within the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. These cases are distributed among 5 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. This high ratio of examiners to actions suggests a diverse range of research being patented, requiring the university to manage many different examiner relationships.
MITCHELL, EDWIN COLEMAN is the busiest examiner, though they only handle 1 pending action. The involvement of 2 distinct art units indicates that the university's biotech innovations span multiple specialized regulatory groups. With 5 distinct examiners involved in 5 pending office actions, the prosecution strategy must be highly individualized for each case. Practitioners should be prepared for a range of perspectives given the distribution across different technical groups. This lack of examiner concentration means that the university's overall patent success is not tied to any single official.
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 (20%) |
| §103 only | 1 (20%) |
| §112 only | 1 (20%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (20%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (20%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MITCHELL, EDWIN COLEMAN | 1 | 32.1% | +64.8% |
| CONTRERAS, CIEL P | 1 | 54.3% | +33.6% |
| WILKINS III, HARRY D | 1 | 62.3% | +19.2% |
| SCHINDLER, DAVID M | 1 | 40.5% | +23.4% |
| WISE, OLIVIA M. | 1 | 33.9% | +29.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18619073 | TOOTH GEL AND TOOTH STRIP WITH REMINERALIZATION CAPABILITY AND PREPARATION METHOD OF TOOTH GEL | MITCHELL, EDWIN COLEMAN | — |
| 18267450 | TRAIN COMPARTMENT AIR ADJUSTMENT AND CONTROL METHOD AND APPARATUS, STORAGE MEDIUM, AND PROGRAM PRODUCT | WISE, OLIVIA M. | — |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18619073 | TOOTH GEL AND TOOTH STRIP WITH REMINERALIZATION CAPABILITY AND PREPARATION METHOD OF TOOTH GEL | MITCHELL, EDWIN COLEMAN | — |
| 18287658 | METHOD FOR PREPARING TITANIUM METAL BY MOLTEN SALT ELECTROLYSIS | CONTRERAS, CIEL P | — |
| 18287659 | METHOD FOR PREPARING RARE EARTH ALLOYS | WILKINS III, HARRY D | — |
| 18371883 | HOLOGRAPHIC ELECTROMAGNETIC EXPLORATION METHOD BASED ON FULL-AREA OBSERVATION ALTERNATING COVERAGE INTEGRAL-DIFFERENCE MIXED STIMULUS | SCHINDLER, DAVID M | — |
| 18267450 | TRAIN COMPARTMENT AIR ADJUSTMENT AND CONTROL METHOD AND APPARATUS, STORAGE MEDIUM, AND PROGRAM PRODUCT | WISE, OLIVIA M. | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1619 | 1 |
| 2858 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18619073 | TOOTH GEL AND TOOTH STRIP WITH REMINERALIZATION CAPABILITY AND PREPARATION METHOD OF TOOTH GEL | MITCHELL, EDWIN COLEMAN | 1619 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 27, 2024 |
| 18287658 | METHOD FOR PREPARING TITANIUM METAL BY MOLTEN SALT ELECTROLYSIS | CONTRERAS, CIEL P | — | §102§103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 20, 2023 |
| 18287659 | METHOD FOR PREPARING RARE EARTH ALLOYS | WILKINS III, HARRY D | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 20, 2023 |
| 18371883 | HOLOGRAPHIC ELECTROMAGNETIC EXPLORATION METHOD BASED ON FULL-AREA OBSERVATION ALTERNATING COVERAGE INTEGRAL-DIFFERENCE MIXED STIMULUS | SCHINDLER, DAVID M | 2858 | §112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 22, 2023 |
| 18267450 | TRAIN COMPARTMENT AIR ADJUSTMENT AND CONTROL METHOD AND APPARATUS, STORAGE MEDIUM, AND PROGRAM PRODUCT | WISE, OLIVIA M. | — | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 14, 2023 |
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