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 • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Marquette University currently has 2 pending office actions within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These actions are handled by 2 distinct examiners. The data indicates that 2 distinct art units are involved in the prosecution of these matters. This suggests that each application is being reviewed by a different examiner in a different art unit, potentially leading to different examination outcomes based on unit-specific practices.
MUSLEH, MOHAMAD A is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, holding 1 busiest examiner pending action. With 2 pending office actions and 2 distinct examiners, the workload is evenly distributed. Each examiner is responsible for 1 of the 2 pending actions, which ensures that the university's current prosecution efforts in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics field are not centralized under one person.
The involvement of 2 distinct art units may require the university to adapt its prosecution strategy to the specific nuances of each individual unit. Coordinating responses across these 2 distinct art units will be important for maintaining a consistent patent strategy.
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) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MUSLEH, MOHAMAD A | 1 | 78.7% | +9.7% |
| KASS, BENJAMIN JOSEPH | 1 | 32.6% | +58.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18807576 | Stator Winding With Integrated Cooling | MUSLEH, MOHAMAD A | — |
| 18042146 | CONTINUOUS HEAVY METAL WATER CONTAMINANT MEASUREMENT SYSTEM | KASS, BENJAMIN JOSEPH | — |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18042146 | CONTINUOUS HEAVY METAL WATER CONTAMINANT MEASUREMENT SYSTEM | KASS, BENJAMIN JOSEPH | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2837 | 1 |
| 1798 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18807576 | Stator Winding With Integrated Cooling | MUSLEH, MOHAMAD A | 2837 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 16, 2024 |
| 18042146 | CONTINUOUS HEAVY METAL WATER CONTAMINANT MEASUREMENT SYSTEM | KASS, BENJAMIN JOSEPH | 1798 | §103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 17, 2023 |
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