Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
4 pending office actions • 2 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Imperial College Innovations Ltd. currently has 4 pending office actions within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These actions are distributed across 4 distinct examiners, which indicates that each pending matter is being reviewed by a different individual. This distribution suggests a diverse range of technical inquiries even within the same broad technology sector, requiring the company to manage multiple examiner perspectives simultaneously.
The portfolio involves 2 distinct art units, showing that the company's intellectual property spans multiple specialized groups at the patent office. WRIGHT, ERIC BRANDON is identified as the busiest examiner, currently managing 1 busiest examiner pending action. This diversification across examiners and 2 different units means the company must maintain a broad prosecution strategy to address the varied feedback coming from the semiconductor and optics divisions at the patent office. Given that there are 4 pending office actions in total, the workload is evenly spread across the assigned staff.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 | 1 (25%) |
| §103 only | 1 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WRIGHT, ERIC BRANDON | 1 | — | — |
| LEDERER, SARAH B | 1 | 55.7% | +36.9% |
| KIDWELL, KAITLYN ELIZABETH | 1 | 78.0% | +20.0% |
| RYAN, DOUGLAS CHARLES | 1 | 39.2% | +47.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18005016 | FORMATE-INDUCIBLE PROMOTERS AND METHODS OF USE THEREOF | RYAN, DOUGLAS CHARLES | 12d |
| 18835557 | COMPOSITIONS | WRIGHT, ERIC BRANDON | — |
| 18682242 | VALVE | LEDERER, SARAH B | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18549950 | CHIPS AND METHODS | KIDWELL, KAITLYN ELIZABETH | 85d overdue |
| 18005016 | FORMATE-INDUCIBLE PROMOTERS AND METHODS OF USE THEREOF | RYAN, DOUGLAS CHARLES | 12d |
| 18682242 | VALVE | LEDERER, SARAH B | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2877 | 1 |
| 1635 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18835557 | COMPOSITIONS | WRIGHT, ERIC BRANDON | — | §101§102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 02, 2024 |
| 18682242 | VALVE | LEDERER, SARAH B | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 08, 2024 |
| 18549950 | CHIPS AND METHODS | KIDWELL, KAITLYN ELIZABETH | 2877 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 85d overdue | Pending | Sep 11, 2023 |
| 18005016 | FORMATE-INDUCIBLE PROMOTERS AND METHODS OF USE THEREOF | RYAN, DOUGLAS CHARLES | 1635 | §102§112 | Final Rejection | 12d | Pending | Jan 10, 2023 |
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