Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Leibniz-Institut Für Neue Materialien Gemeinnützige GmbH manages 3 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These filings are distributed across 2 distinct art units, indicating a focused but slightly varied technical scope for the current portfolio.
The prosecution involves 3 distinct examiners, meaning each pending action is being handled by a different individual. BRYAN D RIPA is the busiest examiner, though they are responsible for only 1 pending office action. This distribution shows that the workload is perfectly balanced across the examiners.
The interaction with 2 distinct art units suggests that the pending office actions fall into closely related technical categories. Because each examiner handles a single pending office action, the institute faces a diverse range of examiner perspectives despite the small number of active cases. This approach ensures that no single examiner has an outsized influence on the overall prosecution strategy.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| RIPA, BRYAN D | 1 | 53.9% | +37.2% |
| COONEY, JOHN M | 1 | 62.8% | +21.1% |
| XU, JIANGTIAN | 1 | 65.3% | +35.8% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18028782 | NEW HYDROGELS | XU, JIANGTIAN | 43d overdue |
| 18283838 | Stabilized Electrodes | RIPA, BRYAN D | — |
| 18038549 | Structured Material | COONEY, JOHN M | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18028782 | NEW HYDROGELS | XU, JIANGTIAN | 43d overdue |
| 18283838 | Stabilized Electrodes | RIPA, BRYAN D | — |
| 18038549 | Structured Material | COONEY, JOHN M | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1765 | 1 |
| 1762 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18283838 | Stabilized Electrodes | RIPA, BRYAN D | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 25, 2023 |
| 18038549 | Structured Material | COONEY, JOHN M | 1765 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 24, 2023 |
| 18028782 | NEW HYDROGELS | XU, JIANGTIAN | 1762 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 43d overdue | Pending | Mar 28, 2023 |
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