Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
10 pending office actions • 4 art units • 10 examiners • 0 of 10 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
Karlsruher Institut Für Technologie is managing 10 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are handled by 10 distinct examiners, resulting in a unique examiner for every pending matter. This distribution means that the institute must engage with 10 different individuals, each with their own examination style.
The portfolio spans 4 distinct art units. Qianping He is the busiest examiner for the company, currently overseeing 1 pending office action. The 10 pending office actions are distributed across 4 distinct art units, indicating that the institute's research in Chemistry & Materials is broad enough to trigger review by multiple specialized groups at the patent office.
For practitioners, the 10 pending office actions represent 10 separate prosecution tracks. Because these are spread across 4 distinct art units, the institute must navigate different technical standards and examiner expectations. The 10 distinct examiners ensure that no single individual's perspective dominates the current prosecution, requiring a broad and coordinated approach to the entire Chemistry & Materials portfolio.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 (10%) |
| §112 only | 1 (10%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 8 (80%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HE, QIANPING | 1 | 66.8% | +15.9% |
| TURNER, SONJI | 1 | 73.8% | +20.1% |
| PREGLER, SHARON | 1 | 78.0% | +21.1% |
| HOPKINS, ROBERT A | 1 | 84.5% | +7.5% |
| SHAO, PHILLIP Y | 1 | 75.3% | +23.7% |
| SIMMONS, VALERIE MICHELLE | 1 | 28.9% | +46.7% |
| YE, XINWEN | 1 | 43.4% | +44.0% |
| MORENO HERNANDEZ, JERZI H | 1 | 73.1% | +15.4% |
| HAUT, EVAN HARRISON | 1 | 57.1% | +0.0% |
| HENDRICKSON, STUART L | 1 | 72.3% | +8.0% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18703452 | PHOTORESIST COMPOSITION, SYSTEM COMPRISING A PHOTORESIST COMPOSITION, METHOD FOR PRODUCING A THREE-DIMENSIONAL STRUCTURE, AND USE OF A PHOTORESIST COMPOSITION IN 3D-PRINTING | YE, XINWEN | 8d overdue |
| 18204448 | USE OF THERMALLY CO2- AND/OR H2O-TREATED SOOT PARTICLES FOR SEPARATING POLYHALOGENATED COMPOUNDS | HENDRICKSON, STUART L | 1d overdue |
| 18573606 | STRUCTURAL TEMPLATE FOR PRODUCING A STAMPING TOOL FOR STAMPING A THIN-FILM ELEMENT, USE OF A STRUCTURAL TEMPLATE, AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING A STRUCTURAL TEMPLATE | MORENO HERNANDEZ, JERZI H | 14d |
| 18772504 | AIR FILTERING PROCESS AND HEATING, VENTILATION, AND AIR CONDITIONING SYSTEM | HE, QIANPING | — |
| 18770901 | AIR FILTERING DEVICE AND VEHICLE AIR CONDITIONER EQUIPPED THEREWITH | TURNER, SONJI | — |
| 18769577 | AIR FILTER AND VEHICLE AIR CONDITIONER EQUIPPED THEREWITH | HOPKINS, ROBERT A | — |
| 18769584 | AIR FILTERING DEVICE FOR AN AIR CONDITIONER | SHAO, PHILLIP Y | — |
| 18656781 | MICROTITER PLATE | SIMMONS, VALERIE MICHELLE | — |
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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18703452 | PHOTORESIST COMPOSITION, SYSTEM COMPRISING A PHOTORESIST COMPOSITION, METHOD FOR PRODUCING A THREE-DIMENSIONAL STRUCTURE, AND USE OF A PHOTORESIST COMPOSITION IN 3D-PRINTING | YE, XINWEN | 8d overdue |
| 18573606 | STRUCTURAL TEMPLATE FOR PRODUCING A STAMPING TOOL FOR STAMPING A THIN-FILM ELEMENT, USE OF A STRUCTURAL TEMPLATE, AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING A STRUCTURAL TEMPLATE | MORENO HERNANDEZ, JERZI H | 14d |
| 18772504 | AIR FILTERING PROCESS AND HEATING, VENTILATION, AND AIR CONDITIONING SYSTEM | HE, QIANPING | — |
| 18770901 | AIR FILTERING DEVICE AND VEHICLE AIR CONDITIONER EQUIPPED THEREWITH | TURNER, SONJI | — |
| 18769580 | AIR FILTERING SYSTEM | PREGLER, SHARON | — |
| 18769584 | AIR FILTERING DEVICE FOR AN AIR CONDITIONER | SHAO, PHILLIP Y | — |
| 18656781 | MICROTITER PLATE | SIMMONS, VALERIE MICHELLE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1754 | 1 |
| 1743 | 1 |
| 2828 | 1 |
| 1736 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18772504 | AIR FILTERING PROCESS AND HEATING, VENTILATION, AND AIR CONDITIONING SYSTEM | HE, QIANPING | — | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 15, 2024 |
| 18770901 | AIR FILTERING DEVICE AND VEHICLE AIR CONDITIONER EQUIPPED THEREWITH | TURNER, SONJI | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 12, 2024 |
| 18769580 | AIR FILTERING SYSTEM | PREGLER, SHARON | — | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 11, 2024 |
| 18769577 | AIR FILTER AND VEHICLE AIR CONDITIONER EQUIPPED THEREWITH | HOPKINS, ROBERT A | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 11, 2024 |
| 18769584 | AIR FILTERING DEVICE FOR AN AIR CONDITIONER | SHAO, PHILLIP Y | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 11, 2024 |
| 18656781 | MICROTITER PLATE | SIMMONS, VALERIE MICHELLE | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 07, 2024 |
| 18703452 | PHOTORESIST COMPOSITION, SYSTEM COMPRISING A PHOTORESIST COMPOSITION, METHOD FOR PRODUCING A THREE-DIMENSIONAL STRUCTURE, AND USE OF A PHOTORESIST COMPOSITION IN 3D-PRINTING | YE, XINWEN | 1754 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 8d overdue | Pending | Apr 22, 2024 |
| 18573606 | STRUCTURAL TEMPLATE FOR PRODUCING A STAMPING TOOL FOR STAMPING A THIN-FILM ELEMENT, USE OF A STRUCTURAL TEMPLATE, AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING A STRUCTURAL TEMPLATE | MORENO HERNANDEZ, JERZI H | 1743 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 14d | Pending | Dec 22, 2023 |
| 18278185 | METHOD AND ARRANGEMENT FOR INCREASING THE BEAM QUALITY AND STABILITY OF AN OPTICAL RESONATOR | HAUT, EVAN HARRISON | 2828 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 22, 2023 |
| 18204448 | USE OF THERMALLY CO2- AND/OR H2O-TREATED SOOT PARTICLES FOR SEPARATING POLYHALOGENATED COMPOUNDS | HENDRICKSON, STUART L | 1736 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 1d overdue | Pending | Jun 01, 2023 |
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