Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Chemistry & Materials • Communications
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 8 patents granted in the last 365 days
Fondazione Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia is managing 3 pending office actions in the Communications technology area. These 3 actions are distributed across 3 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units. This ratio between actions, examiners, and art units suggests a prosecution landscape with no overlap in personnel or administrative oversight. Practitioners should note that the 3 pending office actions are being reviewed by various examiners, which may lead to varied prosecution timelines and outcomes.
RUSH, ERIC is the busiest examiner, though they only hold 1 pending office action out of the 3 total. Because each of the 3 pending office actions is in a different art unit, the company must navigate three different sets of examiner expectations and unit-specific practices. This distribution across 3 distinct examiners means that no single examiner's tendencies will have a disproportionate impact on the overall portfolio. The involvement of 3 distinct art units requires a prosecution strategy that is sensitive to the specific internal cultures of each unit.
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 | 2 (67%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| RUSH, ERIC | 1 | 60.8% | +36.2% |
| HANEY, AMANDA MARIE | 1 | 36.5% | +45.0% |
| WHITE, DENNIS MICHAEL | 1 | 58.0% | +48.4% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18712268 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM | RUSH, ERIC | — |
| 18570201 | MARKER FOR DNA DAMAGE IN PROXIMITY OF TRANSCRIBED GENOMIC LOCI AND METHODS FOR IDENTIFYING AND/OR QUANTIFYING THESE DNA DAMAGES | HANEY, AMANDA MARIE | — |
| 18264074 | METHODS FOR CANCER DETECTION | WHITE, DENNIS MICHAEL | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18712268 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM | RUSH, ERIC | — |
| 18570201 | MARKER FOR DNA DAMAGE IN PROXIMITY OF TRANSCRIBED GENOMIC LOCI AND METHODS FOR IDENTIFYING AND/OR QUANTIFYING THESE DNA DAMAGES | HANEY, AMANDA MARIE | — |
| 18264074 | METHODS FOR CANCER DETECTION | WHITE, DENNIS MICHAEL | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2677 | 1 |
| 1682 | 1 |
| 1758 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18712268 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM | RUSH, ERIC | 2677 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 02, 2024 |
| 18570201 | MARKER FOR DNA DAMAGE IN PROXIMITY OF TRANSCRIBED GENOMIC LOCI AND METHODS FOR IDENTIFYING AND/OR QUANTIFYING THESE DNA DAMAGES | HANEY, AMANDA MARIE | 1682 | §101§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 14, 2023 |
| 18264074 | METHODS FOR CANCER DETECTION | WHITE, DENNIS MICHAEL | 1758 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 02, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialFondazione Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 3 examiners.
Eric Rush has the most, with 1 of Fondazione Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia's pending office actions.
Mostly Communications (USPTO Tech Center 2600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
