Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
19 pending office actions • 13 art units • 18 examiners • 0 of 19 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 20 patents granted in the last 365 days
Khalifa University of Science and Technology currently has 19 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are distributed across 13 distinct art units, reflecting a set of material science research. The involvement of 18 distinct examiners indicates that most cases are being reviewed by different individuals.
Sanz, Gabriel A is the busiest examiner with 2 pending office actions. With 19 pending office actions and 18 distinct examiners, the university faces a fragmented prosecution environment. The 13 distinct art units further diversify the examination standards applied to the portfolio.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 4 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. 4 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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 6 (32%) |
| §102 only | 2 (11%) |
| §112 only | 1 (5%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (5%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 9 (47%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SANZ, GABRIEL A | 2 | 61.8% | +37.4% |
| EVANS, EBONY E | 1 | 64.1% | +28.9% |
| MILLER, JONATHAN | 1 | 79.9% | +18.1% |
| ZAK, JACQUELINE ROSE | 1 | 63.9% | +12.7% |
| FLORES, JAVIER | 1 | 0.0% | +0.0% |
| CONNELLY, MICHELLE R | 1 | 79.9% | +13.2% |
| NORRIS, CLAIRE A | 1 | 65.8% | +28.0% |
| GANAN-SINGH, CHRISTINA MERAIAH | 1 | 66.7% | +50.0% |
| SHUMATE, ANTHONY R | 1 | 69.9% | +14.3% |
| GREEN, ANTHONY J | 1 | 85.0% | +13.5% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18598675 | BRINE-REINFORCED GEOPOLYMER COMPOSITION | GREEN, ANTHONY J | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17736916 | METHOD AND SOFTWARE TO GENERATE HEART RATE VARIABILITY POLAR MAP IMAGES WITH FILLED-IN PATIENT INFORMATION | MAPAR, BIJAN | 16d overdue |
| 18403039 | GEOMETRICALLY TAILORED PYRAMIDAL LATTICE STRUCTURES WITH I-SHAPED STRUTS | FONSECA, JESSIE T | 28d |
| 19239243 | MYCELIUM-BASED BIOCOMPOSITES | EVANS, EBONY E | — |
| 19101020 | FOLDABLE SOLAR DESALINATION DEVICE WITH NO LIQUID DISCHARGE | MILLER, JONATHAN | — |
| 18850787 | HYDROMETALLURGY PROCESS FOR RECYCLING LI-ION BATTERY MATERIALS | FLORES, JAVIER | — |
| 18800847 | AN EFFICIENT AND COMPACT MID-INFRARED POLARIZATION SPLITTER AND ROTATOR BASED ON A BIFURCATED TAPERED-BENT WAVEGUIDE | CONNELLY, MICHELLE R | — |
| 18616853 | ALGINATE-BASED ATMOSPHERIC WATER HARVESTERS | SHUMATE, ANTHONY R | — |
| 18597012 | SELECTIVE METAL RECOVERY | PULLEN, NIKOLAS TAKUYA | — |
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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19239243 | MYCELIUM-BASED BIOCOMPOSITES | EVANS, EBONY E | — |
| 19101020 | FOLDABLE SOLAR DESALINATION DEVICE WITH NO LIQUID DISCHARGE | MILLER, JONATHAN | — |
| 18908435 | A WEARABLE DEVICE USING VISION-BASED TACTILE SENSORS TO DETECT OBJECT FIRMNESS | ZAK, JACQUELINE ROSE | — |
| 18800847 | AN EFFICIENT AND COMPACT MID-INFRARED POLARIZATION SPLITTER AND ROTATOR BASED ON A BIFURCATED TAPERED-BENT WAVEGUIDE | CONNELLY, MICHELLE R | — |
| 18665067 | PLASMONIC TITANIUM NITRIDE-CONTAINING MIXED MATRIX MEMBRANES AND RELATED MEMBRANE DISTILLATION METHODS | NORRIS, CLAIRE A | — |
| 18621537 | THERMO-REVERSIBLE CONDUCTING HYDROGELS AND THEIR USE FOR EPIDERMAL ELECTRODES OR STANDALONE TRANSMITTER | GANAN-SINGH, CHRISTINA MERAIAH | — |
| 18616853 | ALGINATE-BASED ATMOSPHERIC WATER HARVESTERS | SHUMATE, ANTHONY R | — |
| 18598675 | BRINE-REINFORCED GEOPOLYMER COMPOSITION | GREEN, ANTHONY J | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3647 | 1 |
| 2666 | 1 |
| 2874 | 1 |
| 3794 | 1 |
| 1773 | 1 |
| 1777 | 1 |
| 3633 | 1 |
| 1736 | 1 |
| 1779 | 1 |
| 1692 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19239243 | MYCELIUM-BASED BIOCOMPOSITES | EVANS, EBONY E | 3647 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 16, 2025 |
| 19101020 | FOLDABLE SOLAR DESALINATION DEVICE WITH NO LIQUID DISCHARGE | MILLER, JONATHAN | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 04, 2025 |
| 18908435 | A WEARABLE DEVICE USING VISION-BASED TACTILE SENSORS TO DETECT OBJECT FIRMNESS | ZAK, JACQUELINE ROSE | 2666 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 07, 2024 |
| 18850787 | HYDROMETALLURGY PROCESS FOR RECYCLING LI-ION BATTERY MATERIALS | FLORES, JAVIER | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 25, 2024 |
| 18800847 | AN EFFICIENT AND COMPACT MID-INFRARED POLARIZATION SPLITTER AND ROTATOR BASED ON A BIFURCATED TAPERED-BENT WAVEGUIDE | CONNELLY, MICHELLE R | 2874 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 12, 2024 |
| 18665067 | PLASMONIC TITANIUM NITRIDE-CONTAINING MIXED MATRIX MEMBRANES AND RELATED MEMBRANE DISTILLATION METHODS | NORRIS, CLAIRE A | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 15, 2024 |
| 18621537 | THERMO-REVERSIBLE CONDUCTING HYDROGELS AND THEIR USE FOR EPIDERMAL ELECTRODES OR STANDALONE TRANSMITTER | GANAN-SINGH, CHRISTINA MERAIAH | 3794 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 29, 2024 |
| 18616853 | ALGINATE-BASED ATMOSPHERIC WATER HARVESTERS | SHUMATE, ANTHONY R | 1773 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 26, 2024 |
| 18598675 | BRINE-REINFORCED GEOPOLYMER COMPOSITION | GREEN, ANTHONY J | — | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 07, 2024 |
| 18597012 | SELECTIVE METAL RECOVERY | PULLEN, NIKOLAS TAKUYA | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 06, 2024 |
| 18590525 | WATER FILTRATION MEMBRANES AND SYSTEMS | ROYCE, LIAM A | 1777 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 28, 2024 |
| 18403039 | GEOMETRICALLY TAILORED PYRAMIDAL LATTICE STRUCTURES WITH I-SHAPED STRUTS | FONSECA, JESSIE T | 3633 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 28d | Pending | Jan 03, 2024 |
| 18394846 | CONTACT LENS FOR TREATING COLOR VISION DEFICIENCY AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SAME | SANZ, GABRIEL A | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 22, 2023 |
| 18517868 | RU-BASED CATALYSTS FOR AMMONIA SYNTHESIS AT MILD CONDITIONS | NGUYEN, CAM N | 1736 | §112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 22, 2023 |
| 18374197 | PH-RESPONSIVE ADSORPTIVE COMPOSITE POLYMERIC MEMBRANES | NGUYEN, BOI-LIEN THI | 1779 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 28, 2023 |
| 18243310 | Green Synthesis of Salicylaldehydate-Metal-Organic Frameworks and Applications Thereof | PAGANO, ALEXANDER R | 1692 | §102 | Final Rejection | 53d | Pending | Sep 07, 2023 |
| 18269414 | ELEMENTAL SULFUR-ACRYLIC EMULSION | NGUYEN, HA S | 1766 | §112 | Final Rejection | 29d overdue | Pending | Jun 23, 2023 |
| 18087397 | GLASSES WITH LENS FOR TREATING COLOR VISION DEFICIENCY AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SAME | SANZ, GABRIEL A | 2872 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 13, 2023 |
| 17736916 | METHOD AND SOFTWARE TO GENERATE HEART RATE VARIABILITY POLAR MAP IMAGES WITH FILLED-IN PATIENT INFORMATION | MAPAR, BIJAN | 2189 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 16d overdue | Pending | May 04, 2022 |
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