Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Chemistry & Materials
4 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
LUXEMBOURG INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY manages a company patent portfolio in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. The portfolio currently has 4 pending office actions. These actions are being reviewed by 3 distinct examiners across 3 distinct art units. The busiest examiner for the company is BLEDSOE, JOSHUA CALEB, who is currently handling 2 pending office actions. This means that BLEDSOE, JOSHUA CALEB is responsible for 2 of the 4 total pending office actions.
The distribution across 3 distinct art units indicates that the company's chemistry innovations are spread across multiple technical groups. Because there are 4 pending office actions and 3 distinct examiners, the workload is not evenly split among all reviewers. For a practitioner, this concentration of 2 actions with BLEDSOE, JOSHUA CALEB suggests that a portion of the current prosecution depends on this specific individual's review. The remaining actions are handled by the other distinct examiners. This data reflects the current state of the institute's interactions with the patent office across 3 distinct art units while highlighting the primary point of contact in the prosecution process.
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 | 2 (50%) |
| §102 only | 1 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (25%) |
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 | 44.4% | +52.7% |
| BOWERS, NATHAN ANDREW | 1 | 59.4% | +31.9% |
| ABBOTT, KODYE LEE | 1 | 53.1% | +71.4% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18065676 | SYNTHETIC POLYISOPRENE AND METHOD OF SYNTHESIZING POLYISOPRENE | BLEDSOE, JOSHUA CALEB | 23d overdue |
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 4 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 |
| 18553401 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR REMOVING PROTEINS TAKEN UP IN A CARRIER LIQUID | BOWERS, NATHAN ANDREW | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1762 | 2 |
| 1799 | 1 |
| 1634 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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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