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
Colorado Mesa University currently maintains 1 pending office action in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. Prosecution is limited to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. DONAHUE, OLGA LUCIA is the busiest examiner, overseeing 1 busiest examiner pending office action. The university's 1 pending office action is its only current interaction with the patent office in this technology area. Because there is only 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit involved, the prosecution process is streamlined.
The 1 busiest examiner pending action is assigned to DONAHUE, OLGA LUCIA, making this examiner the primary point of contact for the university's current Chemistry & Materials filings. This matter requires a focused response to the specific concerns raised by the examiner. The concentration in 1 distinct art unit reflects a specific area of academic research being transitioned into protected intellectual property. With 1 pending office action, the university can dedicate its resources to a single prosecution track. The role of DONAHUE, OLGA LUCIA as the busiest examiner with 1 busiest examiner pending action highlights the importance of this individual in the university's current patenting efforts.
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 |
|---|---|
| Double-patenting + other | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DONAHUE, OLGA LUCIA | 1 | 74.4% | +12.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18331802 | Removal of paint from porous, smooth, and mineralogically fragile surfaces | DONAHUE, OLGA LUCIA | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1763 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18331802 | Removal of paint from porous, smooth, and mineralogically fragile surfaces | DONAHUE, OLGA LUCIA | 1763 | §103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 08, 2023 |
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