Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Chemistry & Materials • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg manages a patent portfolio in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. There are currently 3 pending office actions across the portfolio. This indicates a moderate level of ongoing interaction with the patent office, requiring the management of several active files.
The university's filings are distributed among 3 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units. This spread suggests that the research being patented covers different technical sub-fields within the semiconductor sector. Navigating 3 distinct art units requires the university to adapt to different examiner expectations and procedural environments, which can increase the complexity of the prosecution strategy.
HENRY, CALEB E is the busiest examiner for the university. This examiner is responsible for 1 pending office action. Since there are 3 pending office actions in total, this examiner handles a portion of the current workload, while the remaining actions are managed by other distinct examiners in separate art units.
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 + other | 1 (33%) |
| §103 only | 1 (33%) |
| §102 only | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HENRY, CALEB E | 1 | 86.8% | +6.0% |
| GRAY, JESSICA | 1 | 0.0% | +0.0% |
| MATHEW, ISWARYA | 1 | 0.0% | +0.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18573251 | NEGATIVE DIFFERENTIAL RESISTANCE TUNNEL DIODE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD | HENRY, CALEB E | 36d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18552397 | RELIABLE IDENTIFICATION OF REGIONS ('A SITES') IN COMPLEX RNA MOLECULES THAT ARE ACCESSIBLE TO NUCLEIC ACIDS OR COMPLEXES OF NUCLEIC ACIDS WITH ENDONUCLEASES | GRAY, JESSICA | — |
| 18240821 | ELECTROLYTE FOR METAL-AIR BATTERY | MATHEW, ISWARYA | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2818 | 1 |
| 1682 | 1 |
| 1788 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18573251 | NEGATIVE DIFFERENTIAL RESISTANCE TUNNEL DIODE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD | HENRY, CALEB E | 2818 | §102 | Non-Final OA | 36d | Pending | Dec 21, 2023 |
| 18552397 | RELIABLE IDENTIFICATION OF REGIONS ('A SITES') IN COMPLEX RNA MOLECULES THAT ARE ACCESSIBLE TO NUCLEIC ACIDS OR COMPLEXES OF NUCLEIC ACIDS WITH ENDONUCLEASES | GRAY, JESSICA | 1682 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 25, 2023 |
| 18240821 | ELECTROLYTE FOR METAL-AIR BATTERY | MATHEW, ISWARYA | 1788 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 31, 2023 |
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