Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Istituto Nazionale Di Astrofisica is managing 2 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. The portfolio's active prosecution is divided between 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units, indicating that the current workload is not centralized. This spread across 2 distinct art units suggests that the institution's research in Chemistry & Materials may span different sub-specialties, each subject to its own set of examination standards. The lack of centralization means the institution must be prepared for potentially differing prior art citations across its active applications.
PILSBURY, BRADY CHARLES is the busiest examiner for the institution, holding 1 pending office action. With the 2 pending office actions split between different examiners and units, the institution faces a varied examination environment across its active filings. The presence of the 1 pending office action with PILSBURY, BRADY CHARLES represents a portion of the current active challenges. Practitioners must therefore develop separate prosecution tracks, as the 2 distinct examiners will likely have different priorities and interpretations of the prior art.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 1 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PILSBURY, BRADY CHARLES | 1 | 47.6% | +49.6% |
| CHOI, JAMES J | 1 | 67.9% | +45.0% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18267356 | DEVICE FOR DISINFECTING A FLUID FLOW IN A CONDUIT BY MEANS OF UV-C RADIATION | CHOI, JAMES J | 4d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18558946 | DEVICE FOR DISINFECTING AN AIR FLOW VIA UV-C RADIATION AND ASSISTED VENTILATION SYSTEM COMPRISING SUCH A DEVICE | PILSBURY, BRADY CHARLES | 30d overdue |
| 18267356 | DEVICE FOR DISINFECTING A FLUID FLOW IN A CONDUIT BY MEANS OF UV-C RADIATION | CHOI, JAMES J | 4d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1799 | 1 |
| 2878 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18558946 | DEVICE FOR DISINFECTING AN AIR FLOW VIA UV-C RADIATION AND ASSISTED VENTILATION SYSTEM COMPRISING SUCH A DEVICE | PILSBURY, BRADY CHARLES | 1799 | §103 | Final Rejection | 30d overdue | Pending | Nov 03, 2023 |
| 18267356 | DEVICE FOR DISINFECTING A FLUID FLOW IN A CONDUIT BY MEANS OF UV-C RADIATION | CHOI, JAMES J | 2878 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 4d overdue | Pending | Jun 14, 2023 |
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