Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Chemistry & Materials • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
5 pending office actions • 4 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 9 patents granted in the last 365 days
Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH currently has 1 pending office action in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This active matter represents the company's current engagement with the patent office in this technical sector. The presence of a pending action suggests a highly focused or early-stage prosecution strategy for the company's chemistry-related intellectual property.
The company's prosecution involves 1 distinct examiner and a specific art unit. This alignment indicates that the company's current patent applications are being reviewed within a narrow technical niche. Caitlyn Mingyun Sun is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, with the pending office action. Because all active work is consolidated under this individual, the prosecution process is highly centralized.
For patent practitioners, this concentration means that the outcome of the company's current patent efforts depends significantly on the examination style of Caitlyn Mingyun Sun. The lack of broader distribution across multiple art units or examiners simplifies the coordination of prosecution but also limits the variety of examiner perspectives within the portfolio. Future filings in the Chemistry & Materials area may continue to be assigned to this specific art unit if they share similar technical classifications.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 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. 3 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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 3 (60%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (40%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NGUYEN, LAM S | 1 | 78.8% | +0.2% |
| STOFFA, WYATT A | 1 | 79.4% | +22.8% |
| HA, STEVEN S | 1 | 70.2% | +30.0% |
| CHEN, SIMPSON ABRAHAM | 1 | 62.1% | +42.4% |
| RAMIREZ, DELIA M | 1 | 65.1% | +56.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18034320 | SOLID STATE CELL AND ASSOCIATED MANUFACTURING METHOD | HA, STEVEN S | 16d overdue |
| 18225837 | Quantum Devices with Left-Handed Ring Resonators | STOFFA, WYATT A | 27d |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18034320 | SOLID STATE CELL AND ASSOCIATED MANUFACTURING METHOD | HA, STEVEN S | 16d overdue |
| 18225837 | Quantum Devices with Left-Handed Ring Resonators | STOFFA, WYATT A | 27d |
| 17285539 | CORYNEFORM BACTERIA FOR PROVISION OF MALONYL-COA | RAMIREZ, DELIA M | 30d |
| 18024220 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING A COATING, AND COATING | CHEN, SIMPSON ABRAHAM | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2881 | 1 |
| 1735 | 1 |
| 3761 | 1 |
| 1652 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18693726 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ASCERTAINING SAMPLING POINTS OF A SIGNAL PULSE | NGUYEN, LAM S | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 20, 2024 |
| 18225837 | Quantum Devices with Left-Handed Ring Resonators | STOFFA, WYATT A | 2881 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 27d | Pending | Jul 25, 2023 |
| 18034320 | SOLID STATE CELL AND ASSOCIATED MANUFACTURING METHOD | HA, STEVEN S | 1735 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 16d overdue | Pending | Apr 27, 2023 |
| 18024220 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING A COATING, AND COATING | CHEN, SIMPSON ABRAHAM | 3761 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 01, 2023 |
| 17285539 | CORYNEFORM BACTERIA FOR PROVISION OF MALONYL-COA | RAMIREZ, DELIA M | 1652 | §103 | Final Rejection | 30d | Pending | Apr 15, 2021 |
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