Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Computing & Software
7 pending office actions • 4 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 13 patents granted in the last 365 days
Kunming University Of Science And Technology has 6 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are assigned to 6 distinct examiners. The portfolio involves 3 distinct art units, indicating that the university's research spans several different chemical and material classifications. NIEVES, NELSON J is the busiest examiner with 1 pending action.
With the distinct examiners reviewing the pending office actions, the university faces a range of individual examination styles. The presence of 3 art units further suggests that the prosecution strategy must be tailored to different technical standards within the chemistry field. Because NIEVES, NELSON J handles the listed pending action, the university's success is distributed across multiple individuals. Practitioners should prepare for separate prosecution paths, each influenced by the specific requirements of the 3 art units and the 6 examiners currently assigned to the cases.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 only | 1 (14%) |
| §103 only | 1 (14%) |
| §112 only | 4 (57%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (14%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NIEVES, NELSON J | 1 | 75.3% | +16.6% |
| PATEL, DEVANG R | 1 | 65.6% | +39.2% |
| FISCHER, JUSTIN R | 1 | 44.3% | +2.3% |
| NGUYEN, HAIDUNG D | 1 | 64.9% | +28.4% |
| CARDA, DANIELLE MARIE | 1 | 83.2% | +13.0% |
| RIPA, BRYAN D | 1 | 53.9% | +37.2% |
| STCLAIR, ANDREW D | 1 | 60.2% | +25.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18681366 | VACUUM DISTILLATION FURNACE, AND METHOD FOR PREPARING HIGH-PURITY COPPER PARTICLES | CARDA, DANIELLE MARIE | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17739184 | Method and Device for Processing Programming Data | STCLAIR, ANDREW D | 490d overdue |
| 18805621 | METHOD FOR PREPARING HIGH-PURITY INDIUM | PATEL, DEVANG R | — |
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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17739184 | Method and Device for Processing Programming Data | STCLAIR, ANDREW D | 490d overdue |
| 19054731 | ANTI-HEAT SOURCE FLUCTUATION HEAT EXCHANGE SYSTEM BASED ON ACTIVE FLOW REGULATION AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF | NIEVES, NELSON J | — |
| 18805621 | METHOD FOR PREPARING HIGH-PURITY INDIUM | PATEL, DEVANG R | — |
| 18701911 | METHOD FOR SINGLE-CRYSTALLIZATION REGENERATION OF WASTE CATHODE MATERIAL BY VACUUM PYROLYSIS PROCESS | NGUYEN, HAIDUNG D | — |
| 18681366 | VACUUM DISTILLATION FURNACE, AND METHOD FOR PREPARING HIGH-PURITY COPPER PARTICLES | CARDA, DANIELLE MARIE | — |
| 18397411 | METHOD FOR PREPARING METALLIC TITANIUM USING TITANIUM-CONTAINING OXIDE SLAG | RIPA, BRYAN D | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1749 | 1 |
| 1761 | 1 |
| 1738 | 1 |
| 2178 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19054731 | ANTI-HEAT SOURCE FLUCTUATION HEAT EXCHANGE SYSTEM BASED ON ACTIVE FLOW REGULATION AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF | NIEVES, NELSON J | — | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 14, 2025 |
| 18805621 | METHOD FOR PREPARING HIGH-PURITY INDIUM | PATEL, DEVANG R | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 15, 2024 |
| 18638651 | UAV surface coating, preparation method thereof and UAV | FISCHER, JUSTIN R | 1749 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 17, 2024 |
| 18701911 | METHOD FOR SINGLE-CRYSTALLIZATION REGENERATION OF WASTE CATHODE MATERIAL BY VACUUM PYROLYSIS PROCESS | NGUYEN, HAIDUNG D | 1761 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 16, 2024 |
| 18681366 | VACUUM DISTILLATION FURNACE, AND METHOD FOR PREPARING HIGH-PURITY COPPER PARTICLES | CARDA, DANIELLE MARIE | 1738 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 05, 2024 |
| 18397411 | METHOD FOR PREPARING METALLIC TITANIUM USING TITANIUM-CONTAINING OXIDE SLAG | RIPA, BRYAN D | — | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 27, 2023 |
| 17739184 | Method and Device for Processing Programming Data | STCLAIR, ANDREW D | 2178 | §101 | Non-Final OA | 490d overdue | Pending | May 09, 2022 |
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