Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Chemistry & Materials • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
5 pending office actions • 4 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
LUXEMBOURG INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY has 5 pending office actions in Chemistry & Materials. The matters involve 4 distinct examiners and 4 distinct art units, indicating a broad distribution of prosecution responsibility.
BLEDSOE, JOSHUA CALEB is the busiest examiner, with 2 pending matters. That assignment warrants coordinated review for consistency, while the remaining examiner and art-unit placements call for matter-specific preparation.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (20%) |
| §103 only | 2 (40%) |
| §102 only | 1 (20%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (20%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BLEDSOE, JOSHUA CALEB | 2 | 43.9% | +45.8% |
| TIMILSINA, SHARAD | 1 | 74.4% | +11.1% |
| BOWERS, NATHAN ANDREW | 1 | 59.5% | +31.7% |
| ABBOTT, KODYE LEE | 1 | 54.5% | +71.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18065676 | SYNTHETIC POLYISOPRENE AND METHOD OF SYNTHESIZING POLYISOPRENE | BLEDSOE, JOSHUA CALEB | 23d overdue |
| 18715646 | METHOD FOR NEAR REAL-TIME FLOOD DETECTION AT LARGE SCALE IN A GEOGRAPHICAL REGION COVERING BOTH URBAN AREAS AND RURAL AREAS AND ASSOCIATED COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT | TIMILSINA, SHARAD | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18065676 | SYNTHETIC POLYISOPRENE AND METHOD OF SYNTHESIZING POLYISOPRENE | BLEDSOE, JOSHUA CALEB | 23d overdue |
| 18315042 | DIENE-NORBORNENE COPOLYMERS | BLEDSOE, JOSHUA CALEB | 22d overdue |
| 18268597 | Medium for the in vitro transportation and storage of cells | ABBOTT, KODYE LEE | 50d |
| 18715646 | METHOD FOR NEAR REAL-TIME FLOOD DETECTION AT LARGE SCALE IN A GEOGRAPHICAL REGION COVERING BOTH URBAN AREAS AND RURAL AREAS AND ASSOCIATED COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT | TIMILSINA, SHARAD | — |
| 18553401 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR REMOVING PROTEINS TAKEN UP IN A CARRIER LIQUID | BOWERS, NATHAN ANDREW | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1762 | 2 |
| 2857 | 1 |
| 1799 | 1 |
| 1634 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18715646 | METHOD FOR NEAR REAL-TIME FLOOD DETECTION AT LARGE SCALE IN A GEOGRAPHICAL REGION COVERING BOTH URBAN AREAS AND RURAL AREAS AND ASSOCIATED COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT | TIMILSINA, SHARAD | 2857 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 31, 2024 |
| 18553401 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR REMOVING PROTEINS TAKEN UP IN A CARRIER LIQUID | BOWERS, NATHAN ANDREW | 1799 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 29, 2023 |
| 18268597 | Medium for the in vitro transportation and storage of cells | ABBOTT, KODYE LEE | 1634 | §102 | Final Rejection | 50d | Pending | Jun 20, 2023 |
| 18315042 | DIENE-NORBORNENE COPOLYMERS | BLEDSOE, JOSHUA CALEB | 1762 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | 22d overdue | Pending | May 10, 2023 |
| 18065676 | SYNTHETIC POLYISOPRENE AND METHOD OF SYNTHESIZING POLYISOPRENE | BLEDSOE, JOSHUA CALEB | 1762 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 23d overdue | Pending | Dec 14, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialLUXEMBOURG INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY has 5 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 4 art units and 4 examiners.
Joshua Caleb Bledsoe has the most, with 2 of LUXEMBOURG INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
