Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Chemistry & Materials
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Hacettepe Universitesi Rektorluk has 2 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These matters are spread across 2 distinct art units, suggesting that the university's current patent applications involve different specialized chemical or material technologies.
The prosecution is handled by 2 distinct examiners. SOPHIA YUAN LYLE is the busiest examiner, currently managing 1 pending office action. This distribution shows that the pending office actions are split evenly, with each examiner responsible for one action.
With 2 pending office actions in 2 distinct art units, the portfolio lacks concentration in a single examination division. The involvement of multiple examiners, each handling a single pending office action, means the university must manage two separate prosecution tracks with different officials. This diversity of examiners and art units requires a flexible approach to patent prosecution that accounts for varying examiner standards.
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) | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LYLE, SOPHIA YUAN | 1 | 57.2% | +56.7% |
| WELLES, COLMAN THOMAS | 1 | 29.2% | +64.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18272652 | A TISSUE FILLER COMPRISING HYALURONIC ACID GEL AND A PRODUCTION METHOD THEREOF | WELLES, COLMAN THOMAS | 21d |
| 18552402 | A CYNADIDE DETERMINATION SYSTEM AND A METHOD FOR OBTAINING GOLD NANOCLUSTERS USED IN THE SYSTEM | LYLE, SOPHIA YUAN | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18272652 | A TISSUE FILLER COMPRISING HYALURONIC ACID GEL AND A PRODUCTION METHOD THEREOF | WELLES, COLMAN THOMAS | 21d |
| 18552402 | A CYNADIDE DETERMINATION SYSTEM AND A METHOD FOR OBTAINING GOLD NANOCLUSTERS USED IN THE SYSTEM | LYLE, SOPHIA YUAN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1796 | 1 |
| 1612 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18552402 | A CYNADIDE DETERMINATION SYSTEM AND A METHOD FOR OBTAINING GOLD NANOCLUSTERS USED IN THE SYSTEM | LYLE, SOPHIA YUAN | 1796 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 25, 2023 |
| 18272652 | A TISSUE FILLER COMPRISING HYALURONIC ACID GEL AND A PRODUCTION METHOD THEREOF | WELLES, COLMAN THOMAS | 1612 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 21d | Pending | Jul 17, 2023 |
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