Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
14 pending office actions • 11 art units • 14 examiners • 0 of 14 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 12 patents granted in the last 365 days
The Colorado School of Mines maintains a patent portfolio with 14 pending office actions, primarily situated in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This workload involves 14 distinct examiners. The ratio of 14 pending office actions to 14 distinct examiners suggests that no 1 examiner has a broad influence over the portfolio, requiring the institution to navigate various individual examination styles simultaneously.
The administrative breadth of the portfolio is further evidenced by its distribution across 11 distinct art units. This indicates that the institution's research and subsequent patent filings span several specialized sub-disciplines within the Chemistry & Materials field. The count of 11 distinct art units relative to the total volume of active matters implies that the prosecution strategy is adapted to the specific standards of various technical groups.
IQBAL, HAMNA FATHIMA is noted as the busiest examiner, though they are only responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending office action. This highlights the lack of concentration in the portfolio, as even the busiest examiner handles only a small fraction of the total pending workload. For practitioners, this profile suggests a need for decentralized management where each application is treated as a unique engagement with the patent office.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 5 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 5 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 (7%) |
| §103 only | 7 (50%) |
| §112 only | 1 (7%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 5 (36%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| IQBAL, HAMNA FATHIMA | 1 | 83.3% | +20.0% |
| ORME, PATRICK JAMES | 1 | 59.9% | +13.6% |
| TRINH, THANH TRUC | 1 | 22.1% | +10.8% |
| KORANG-BEHESHTI, YOSSEF | 1 | 74.1% | +11.4% |
| NGUYEN, BOI-LIEN THI | 1 | 23.8% | +30.0% |
| LIN, JASON | 1 | 72.8% | +23.5% |
| HAILEY, PATRICIA L | 1 | 88.1% | +10.1% |
| SHEIKH, HAROON S | 1 | 70.8% | +18.3% |
| WALCK, BRIAN D | 1 | 58.7% | +26.9% |
| LACHICA, ERICSON M | 1 | 30.0% | +35.4% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18479419 | HYDROTHERMAL ALKALINE TREATMENT OF PFAS-CONTAMINATED ADSORBENTS FOR CONTAMINANT MINERALIZATION AND ADSORBENT REGENERATION | HAILEY, PATRICIA L | 19d |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18329930 | Protonic ceramic fuel cell system | SHEIKH, HAROON S | 28d |
| 18754435 | PLANARIZATION OF ROUGH SURFACES | IQBAL, HAMNA FATHIMA | — |
| 18650511 | Reverse Osmosis Systems and Methods | ORME, PATRICK JAMES | — |
| 18614390 | TUNABLE POLYMER TRANSPORT MATERIALS FOR APPLICATION IN PEROVSKITE SOLAR CELLS | TRINH, THANH TRUC | — |
| 18584766 | RAPID MAPPING OF ELECTROCHEMICAL PROCESSES IN ENERGY CONVERSION DEVICES | KORANG-BEHESHTI, YOSSEF | — |
| 18544148 | CONTAMINANT DEGRADATION METHODS, BIOMATERIAL COMPOSITIONS, AND SYSTEMS | NGUYEN, BOI-LIEN THI | — |
| 18188920 | MULTI-PRINCIPAL ELEMENT ALLOY FILLER MATERIALS | WALCK, BRIAN D | — |
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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18479419 | HYDROTHERMAL ALKALINE TREATMENT OF PFAS-CONTAMINATED ADSORBENTS FOR CONTAMINANT MINERALIZATION AND ADSORBENT REGENERATION | HAILEY, PATRICIA L | 19d |
| 18329930 | Protonic ceramic fuel cell system | SHEIKH, HAROON S | 28d |
| 18754435 | PLANARIZATION OF ROUGH SURFACES | IQBAL, HAMNA FATHIMA | — |
| 18650511 | Reverse Osmosis Systems and Methods | ORME, PATRICK JAMES | — |
| 18614390 | TUNABLE POLYMER TRANSPORT MATERIALS FOR APPLICATION IN PEROVSKITE SOLAR CELLS | TRINH, THANH TRUC | — |
| 18584766 | RAPID MAPPING OF ELECTROCHEMICAL PROCESSES IN ENERGY CONVERSION DEVICES | KORANG-BEHESHTI, YOSSEF | — |
| 18544148 | CONTAMINANT DEGRADATION METHODS, BIOMATERIAL COMPOSITIONS, AND SYSTEMS | NGUYEN, BOI-LIEN THI | — |
| 18479363 | THERMOELECTRIC IRRIGATION MODULE AND METHODS OF USE THEREOF | LIN, JASON | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1726 | 1 |
| 1779 | 1 |
| 2117 | 1 |
| 1732 | 1 |
| 1751 | 1 |
| 1700 | 1 |
| 1792 | 1 |
| 1767 | 1 |
| 3785 | 1 |
| 2893 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18754435 | PLANARIZATION OF ROUGH SURFACES | IQBAL, HAMNA FATHIMA | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 26, 2024 |
| 18650511 | Reverse Osmosis Systems and Methods | ORME, PATRICK JAMES | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 30, 2024 |
| 18614390 | TUNABLE POLYMER TRANSPORT MATERIALS FOR APPLICATION IN PEROVSKITE SOLAR CELLS | TRINH, THANH TRUC | 1726 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 22, 2024 |
| 18584766 | RAPID MAPPING OF ELECTROCHEMICAL PROCESSES IN ENERGY CONVERSION DEVICES | KORANG-BEHESHTI, YOSSEF | — | §101§102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 22, 2024 |
| 18544148 | CONTAMINANT DEGRADATION METHODS, BIOMATERIAL COMPOSITIONS, AND SYSTEMS | NGUYEN, BOI-LIEN THI | 1779 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 18, 2023 |
| 18479363 | THERMOELECTRIC IRRIGATION MODULE AND METHODS OF USE THEREOF | LIN, JASON | 2117 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 02, 2023 |
| 18479419 | HYDROTHERMAL ALKALINE TREATMENT OF PFAS-CONTAMINATED ADSORBENTS FOR CONTAMINANT MINERALIZATION AND ADSORBENT REGENERATION | HAILEY, PATRICIA L | 1732 | §112 | Non-Final OA | 19d | Pending | Oct 02, 2023 |
| 18329930 | Protonic ceramic fuel cell system | SHEIKH, HAROON S | 1751 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 28d | Pending | Jun 06, 2023 |
| 18188920 | MULTI-PRINCIPAL ELEMENT ALLOY FILLER MATERIALS | WALCK, BRIAN D | 1700 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 23, 2023 |
| 18166877 | Single-Serving Beverage Ingredient Containers Comprising Nanoparticulate Cannabidiol | LACHICA, ERICSON M | 1792 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 09, 2023 |
| 18086379 | POLYVINYL TOLUENE SCINTILLATORS PRODUCED USING CATIONIC PHOTOINITIATORS FOR ADDITIVELY MANUFACTURED RADIATION DETECTORS | HEINCER, LIAM J | 1767 | §103 | Final Rejection | 30d | Pending | Dec 21, 2022 |
| 17983933 | AIRBORNE DELIVERY OF MICROROBOTS | MOON, MATTHEW RYAN | 3785 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 09, 2022 |
| 17809841 | CONTROL OF SURFACE MORPHOLOGY OF SPALLED (110) III-V SUBSTRATE SURFACES | SARKER-NAG, AKHEE | 2893 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 29d | Pending | Jun 29, 2022 |
| 17564802 | METHODS FOR IMPLEMENTING ERROR-DIVISIBLE QUANTUM GATES | JONES, CHARLES JEFFREY | 2122 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 58d overdue | Pending | Dec 29, 2021 |
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