Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Chemistry & Materials
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Michigan Technological University is currently managing 3 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are distributed across 2 distinct art units, suggesting a relatively focused technical scope. The university is working with 3 distinct examiners for these matters.
Edna Wong is identified as the busiest examiner for this portfolio, currently overseeing 1 pending office action. Since there are 3 pending actions, the workload is split so that each examiner is responsible for a case. This means the university must navigate the individual preferences of different examiners across the 2 art units involved.
The presence of 2 distinct art units for the pending office actions indicates that some of the actions are likely in the same technical group. However, with 3 distinct examiners, there is no concentration of cases under a single individual. Practitioners should prepare for diverse feedback across the active matters in the Chemistry & Materials sector.
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 | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (67%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WONG, EDNA | 1 | 58.4% | -19.7% |
| LEE, CRYSTAL J | 1 | 82.1% | +21.5% |
| EVANS, CHRISTOPHER RYAN | 1 | 60.9% | +64.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18842106 | CARBON DIOXIDE CAPTURE AND UTILIZATION AS A CLEAN FEEDSTOCK | WONG, EDNA | 85d overdue |
| 18715978 | SIMULTANEOUS REMOVAL OF CARBON DIOXIDE, NOx and SOx USING SINGLE STAGE ABSORPTION COLUMN AND RELATED METHODS | LEE, CRYSTAL J | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17637018 | HIGH-BRIGHTNESS FLUOROPHORES FOR QUANTIFICATION AND PHENOTYPING OF EXTRACELLULAR VESICLES | EVANS, CHRISTOPHER RYAN | 8d overdue |
| 18715978 | SIMULTANEOUS REMOVAL OF CARBON DIOXIDE, NOx and SOx USING SINGLE STAGE ABSORPTION COLUMN AND RELATED METHODS | LEE, CRYSTAL J | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1795 | 1 |
| 1677 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18842106 | CARBON DIOXIDE CAPTURE AND UTILIZATION AS A CLEAN FEEDSTOCK | WONG, EDNA | 1795 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 85d overdue | Pending | Aug 28, 2024 |
| 18715978 | SIMULTANEOUS REMOVAL OF CARBON DIOXIDE, NOx and SOx USING SINGLE STAGE ABSORPTION COLUMN AND RELATED METHODS | LEE, CRYSTAL J | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 03, 2024 |
| 17637018 | HIGH-BRIGHTNESS FLUOROPHORES FOR QUANTIFICATION AND PHENOTYPING OF EXTRACELLULAR VESICLES | EVANS, CHRISTOPHER RYAN | 1677 | §103Other | Final Rejection | 8d overdue | Pending | Feb 21, 2022 |
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