Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Institut National Des Sciences Appliquees De Toulouse has 1 pending office action in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. The prosecution landscape for this entity is limited to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. This indicates that the company's immediate patenting activity is concentrated within a specific technical domain and administrative path at the patent office.
The busiest examiner for the portfolio is FITZSIMMONS, ALLISON G, who is assigned 1 busiest examiner pending action. This count matches the total 1 pending office action for the entire company. Because all activity is funneled through 1 distinct art unit, the prosecution strategy is highly dependent on the specific examination trends of that unit. Practitioners should observe that the current workload does not provide a broad sample of examiner behavior across the Chemistry & Materials sector, as it relies on the review of 1 distinct examiner.
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 |
|---|---|
| §112 only | 1 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FITZSIMMONS, ALLISON G | 1 | 48.1% | +16.0% |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18254446 | A METHOD FOR ISOLATING MOLECULES AND/OR MOLECULAR COMPLEXES | FITZSIMMONS, ALLISON G | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1797 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18254446 | A METHOD FOR ISOLATING MOLECULES AND/OR MOLECULAR COMPLEXES | FITZSIMMONS, ALLISON G | 1797 | §112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 25, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialInstitut National Des Sciences Appliquees De Toulouse has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Allison G Fitzsimmons has the most, with 1 of Institut National Des Sciences Appliquees De Toulouse's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
