Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
7 pending office actions • 7 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 79 patents granted in the last 365 days
King Saud University has 7 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. The presence of 7 pending actions, 7 distinct examiners, and 7 distinct art units indicates a fragmented and technically diverse prosecution landscape. Each of the 7 examiners is responsible for exactly one case for the university.
ZULMARIAM MENDEZ is the busiest examiner for the university, with 1 pending office action. Because every pending action is in a different art unit and with a different examiner, the university must manage 7 independent prosecution tracks. This variety suggests that the university's research in chemistry and materials covers many different specialized fields. The lack of concentration across 7 pending actions means that no single examiner's style will dominate the university's overall prosecution experience at the patent office. This decentralized profile requires the university to manage 7 separate relationships at the patent office simultaneously across 7 distinct art units.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 4 (57%) |
| §112 only | 1 (14%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (29%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MENDEZ, ZULMARIAM | 1 | 66.1% | +21.1% |
| PIRO, NICHOLAS ANTHONY | 1 | 45.9% | +35.9% |
| MORAN, EDWARD JOHN | 1 | 41.8% | +61.1% |
| SMOOT, MORIAH SIMONE MCMIL | 1 | 63.9% | +6.7% |
| RITCHIE, HADEN MATTHEW | 1 | 73.4% | +33.8% |
| NASSER, ROBERT L | 1 | 72.9% | +11.2% |
| TURPIN, ZACHARY MARK | 1 | 4.0% | -5.0% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17819472 | METHOD FOR EARLY DETERMINATION OF GENDER BY MULTIPLEX PCR DETECTING FOUR GENES | TURPIN, ZACHARY MARK | 27d |
| 18485668 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING STEEL USING SUPER-PURE IRON ORE POWDER AND HYDROGEN | SMOOT, MORIAH SIMONE MCMIL | — |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18669848 | DENTAL POST KIT AND METHOD OF USING THE SAME | MORAN, EDWARD JOHN | 28d overdue |
| 18198228 | Method and Apparatus for Storing Energy | NASSER, ROBERT L | 50d |
| 19271977 | TIO2 PHOTOANODES DOPED WITH Zr-Fe2O3 | MENDEZ, ZULMARIAM | — |
| 19070784 | METHOD OF SYNTHESIZING COPPER FERRITE NANOPARTICLES USING METAL CANS | PIRO, NICHOLAS ANTHONY | — |
| 18204557 | SAFETY NEEDLE FOR ADMINISTERING MEDICATION AND WITHDRAWING BIOLOGICAL FLUIDS | RITCHIE, HADEN MATTHEW | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1794 | 1 |
| 1738 | 1 |
| 3772 | 1 |
| 1733 | 1 |
| 3783 | 1 |
| 3992 | 1 |
| 1682 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19271977 | TIO2 PHOTOANODES DOPED WITH Zr-Fe2O3 | MENDEZ, ZULMARIAM | 1794 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 17, 2025 |
| 19070784 | METHOD OF SYNTHESIZING COPPER FERRITE NANOPARTICLES USING METAL CANS | PIRO, NICHOLAS ANTHONY | 1738 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 05, 2025 |
| 18669848 | DENTAL POST KIT AND METHOD OF USING THE SAME | MORAN, EDWARD JOHN | 3772 | §103 | Final Rejection | 28d overdue | Pending | May 21, 2024 |
| 18485668 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING STEEL USING SUPER-PURE IRON ORE POWDER AND HYDROGEN | SMOOT, MORIAH SIMONE MCMIL | 1733 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 12, 2023 |
| 18204557 | SAFETY NEEDLE FOR ADMINISTERING MEDICATION AND WITHDRAWING BIOLOGICAL FLUIDS | RITCHIE, HADEN MATTHEW | 3783 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 01, 2023 |
| 18198228 | Method and Apparatus for Storing Energy | NASSER, ROBERT L | 3992 | §112Other | Non-Final OA | 50d | Pending | May 16, 2023 |
| 17819472 | METHOD FOR EARLY DETERMINATION OF GENDER BY MULTIPLEX PCR DETECTING FOUR GENES | TURPIN, ZACHARY MARK | 1682 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 27d | Pending | Aug 12, 2022 |
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