Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
5 pending office actions • 4 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Miami University maintains 5 pending office actions in the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. These filings are distributed across 4 distinct art units, showing that the university's research output spans several specialized groups within the patent office. The involvement of 4 distinct art units indicates a breadth of technical subject matter within the life sciences sector for the institution's current applications.
The portfolio is handled by 5 distinct examiners, matching the total count of pending office actions. JOEL LAMPRECHT is the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action. This indicates that no single examiner is managing multiple pending matters, spreading the prosecution workload across the various officials. Because the number of examiners equals the number of pending office actions, the university interacts with a different official for every active case in this set. This distribution may result in varied prosecution experiences across the portfolio.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 2 (40%) |
| §102 only | 1 (20%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (40%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LAMPRECHT, JOEL | 1 | 81.4% | +16.8% |
| MOEHLMAN, ANDREW TERRY | 1 | 66.3% | +61.0% |
| CHATTERJEE, JAYANTA | 1 | 45.5% | +80.0% |
| WRIGHT, ANDREW RUSSELL | 1 | 65.5% | +41.7% |
| BATES, KEENAN ALEXANDER | 1 | 45.5% | +79.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18888800 | DIGITAL AUTOCORRELATOR | LAMPRECHT, JOEL | — |
| 18706982 | METHODS FOR THE PRODUCTION OF TRYPTOPHANS, TRYPTAMINES, INTERMEDIATES, SIDE PRODUCTS AND DERIVATIVES | MOEHLMAN, ANDREW TERRY | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18400586 | COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS OF ENHANCING PHOTOSYNTHESIS | CHATTERJEE, JAYANTA | 15d overdue |
| 18161467 | CELLULAR REPROGRAMMING OF HUMAN ADIPOCYTES | BATES, KEENAN ALEXANDER | 79d |
| 18888800 | DIGITAL AUTOCORRELATOR | LAMPRECHT, JOEL | — |
| 18706982 | METHODS FOR THE PRODUCTION OF TRYPTOPHANS, TRYPTAMINES, INTERMEDIATES, SIDE PRODUCTS AND DERIVATIVES | MOEHLMAN, ANDREW TERRY | — |
| 18134929 | FIELD SCANNING OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY | WRIGHT, ANDREW RUSSELL | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1655 | 1 |
| 1662 | 1 |
| 2872 | 1 |
| 1631 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18888800 | DIGITAL AUTOCORRELATOR | LAMPRECHT, JOEL | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 18, 2024 |
| 18706982 | METHODS FOR THE PRODUCTION OF TRYPTOPHANS, TRYPTAMINES, INTERMEDIATES, SIDE PRODUCTS AND DERIVATIVES | MOEHLMAN, ANDREW TERRY | 1655 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 02, 2024 |
| 18400586 | COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS OF ENHANCING PHOTOSYNTHESIS | CHATTERJEE, JAYANTA | 1662 | §103 | Final Rejection | 15d overdue | Pending | Dec 29, 2023 |
| 18134929 | FIELD SCANNING OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY | WRIGHT, ANDREW RUSSELL | 2872 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 14, 2023 |
| 18161467 | CELLULAR REPROGRAMMING OF HUMAN ADIPOCYTES | BATES, KEENAN ALEXANDER | 1631 | §102Other | Non-Final OA | 79d | Pending | Jan 30, 2023 |
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