Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Chemistry & Materials • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
6 pending office actions • 4 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 7 patents granted in the last 365 days
Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg currently manages 1 pending office action within the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. This matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, HUMPHRIES, NICHOLAS ADAM. The concentration of the portfolio in 1 distinct art unit suggests a specific focus for the current prosecution cycle.
Examiner HUMPHRIES, NICHOLAS ADAM is identified as the busiest examiner for this portfolio, holding 1 pending office action. Because the total number of pending office actions is 1, this examiner is responsible for the entirety of the university's active workload in this sector. The involvement of a single distinct examiner and a single distinct art unit indicates a narrow point of contact within the patent office for these specific filings.
The presence of the pending office action reflects the current interaction with the USPTO for this entity. With the distinct examiner and art unit involved, the prosecution strategy appears centralized. This structure minimizes the variety of examination styles the applicant must navigate across its Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals filings.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 2 (33%) |
| §103 only | 3 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (17%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| QURESHI, REHMAN AHMED | 1 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
| BYTHROW, PETER M | 1 | 87.9% | +10.6% |
| NGUYEN, CHUONG P | 1 | 79.1% | +13.4% |
| TALBOT, BRIAN K | 1 | 59.1% | +30.9% |
| LEE, ANDREW P | 1 | 48.3% | +23.1% |
| VAN, LUAN V | 1 | 34.3% | +40.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19027279 | SYSTEM, ASSISTING DEVICE, AND METHOD OF OPERATING A SYSTEM | QURESHI, REHMAN AHMED | — |
| 18876641 | SYSTEM, METHOD, COMPUTER PROGRAM AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM | BYTHROW, PETER M | — |
| 18875677 | SYSTEM, METHOD, COMPUTER PROGRAM, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM | NGUYEN, CHUONG P | — |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17800130 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING HIGH-FREQUENCY FUNCTIONAL STRUCTURES | TALBOT, BRIAN K | 38d overdue |
| 18876641 | SYSTEM, METHOD, COMPUTER PROGRAM AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM | BYTHROW, PETER M | — |
| 18875677 | SYSTEM, METHOD, COMPUTER PROGRAM, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM | NGUYEN, CHUONG P | — |
| 17782643 | INHIBITION OF TMEM16A BY BENZBROMARONE OR NICLOSAMIDE FOR TREATING POLYCYSTIC KIDNEY DISEASE AND/OR POLYCYSTIC LIVER DISEASE | LEE, ANDREW P | — |
| 17617796 | ELECTROLYSIS DEVICE HAVING TWO BORON DOPED DIAMOND LAYERS | VAN, LUAN V | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3646 | 1 |
| 1712 | 1 |
| 1691 | 1 |
| 1700 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19027279 | SYSTEM, ASSISTING DEVICE, AND METHOD OF OPERATING A SYSTEM | QURESHI, REHMAN AHMED | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 17, 2025 |
| 18876641 | SYSTEM, METHOD, COMPUTER PROGRAM AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM | BYTHROW, PETER M | — | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 18, 2024 |
| 18875677 | SYSTEM, METHOD, COMPUTER PROGRAM, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM | NGUYEN, CHUONG P | 3646 | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 16, 2024 |
| 17800130 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING HIGH-FREQUENCY FUNCTIONAL STRUCTURES | TALBOT, BRIAN K | 1712 | §103 | Final Rejection | 38d overdue | Pending | Aug 16, 2022 |
| 17782643 | INHIBITION OF TMEM16A BY BENZBROMARONE OR NICLOSAMIDE FOR TREATING POLYCYSTIC KIDNEY DISEASE AND/OR POLYCYSTIC LIVER DISEASE | LEE, ANDREW P | 1691 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 04, 2022 |
| 17617796 | ELECTROLYSIS DEVICE HAVING TWO BORON DOPED DIAMOND LAYERS | VAN, LUAN V | 1700 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 09, 2021 |
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