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 • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Dalian Minzu University has a portfolio within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. The university currently has 1 pending office action. This active case represents the current state of the university's patent prosecution efforts in this field.
The data indicates that the portfolio is being examined by 1 distinct examiner in 1 distinct art unit. This suggests a focused technical scope for the university's filings. For the practitioner, this concentration simplifies the prosecution process by limiting the number of USPTO officials and departments involved.
KOSLOW, CAROL M is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, with 1 busiest examiner pending office action. As there is 1 pending office action in total, this examiner has sole responsibility for the current active matter. A successful prosecution will depend on addressing the specific concerns of this one examiner.
The presence of 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit allows for a consistent and focused prosecution strategy. The practitioner can dedicate resources to the 1 pending office action without the complexity of managing multiple examiners. This centralized approach is a defining feature of the university's current patent portfolio.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KOSLOW, CAROL M | 1 | 81.6% | +12.2% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18003030 | POLYSULFIDE UPCONVERSION PHOSPHOR | KOSLOW, CAROL M | 26d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18003030 | POLYSULFIDE UPCONVERSION PHOSPHOR | KOSLOW, CAROL M | 26d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1734 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18003030 | POLYSULFIDE UPCONVERSION PHOSPHOR | KOSLOW, CAROL M | 1734 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | 26d | Pending | Dec 22, 2022 |
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