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 • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Kochi Prefectural Public University Corporation is active in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. The portfolio currently has 1 pending office action, which is being reviewed by 1 distinct examiner. This indicates a very specific prosecution focus, likely centered on a single research innovation within this technical field. The involvement of 1 distinct art unit indicates that the subject matter is confined to a single administrative group.
The busiest examiner for the university is NUCKOLS, TIFFANY Z, who is handling the 1 pending office action. Prosecution is limited to this single official, which streamlines the administrative process for the university's intellectual property. With 1 busiest examiner pending action, the data confirms that this examiner is the only one currently active on the portfolio. Practitioners should focus on the specific requirements of this examiner and the single art unit involved, as they represent the entirety of the university's current active patent office interactions.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 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 | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHUNG, ANDREW | 1 | 56.0% | +31.4% |
| NUCKOLS, TIFFANY Z | 1 | 45.5% | +40.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17801488 | ATOMIZING APPARATUS FOR FILM FORMATION, FILM FORMING APPARATUS USING THE SAME, AND SEMICONDUCTOR FILM | NUCKOLS, TIFFANY Z | 14d |
| 18011964 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING DOPING RAW-MATERIAL SOLUTION FOR FILM FORMATION, METHOD FOR PRODUCING LAMINATE, DOPING RAW-MATERIAL SOLUTION FOR FILM FORMATION, AND SEMICONDUCTOR FILM | CHUNG, ANDREW | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2898 | 1 |
| 1716 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18011964 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING DOPING RAW-MATERIAL SOLUTION FOR FILM FORMATION, METHOD FOR PRODUCING LAMINATE, DOPING RAW-MATERIAL SOLUTION FOR FILM FORMATION, AND SEMICONDUCTOR FILM | CHUNG, ANDREW | 2898 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 21, 2022 |
| 17801488 | ATOMIZING APPARATUS FOR FILM FORMATION, FILM FORMING APPARATUS USING THE SAME, AND SEMICONDUCTOR FILM | NUCKOLS, TIFFANY Z | 1716 | §103 | Final Rejection | 14d | Pending | Aug 22, 2022 |
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