Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
Ming Chi University Of Technology has 2 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are distributed across 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. This distribution indicates that the university is pursuing diverse technical paths within the broader chemistry sector, as each pending matter is being evaluated in a different administrative environment.
The busiest examiner identified in the data is FORSYTH, PAUL ALAN, who is managing 1 busiest examiner pending action. The presence of 2 distinct art units suggests that the university's research and development efforts are being categorized into separate specialized groups at the patent office. This variety in examiners and art units requires a strategy that accounts for different examiner styles and unit-specific trends. The 2 pending office actions are split among the 2 distinct examiners.
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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FORSYTH, PAUL ALAN | 1 | 70.6% | +8.5% |
| OYER, ANDREW J | 1 | 79.2% | +16.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17953551 | SOLID POLYMER ELECTROLYTE MEMBRANE AND ELECTROCHROMIC DEVICE INCLUDING THE SAME | OYER, ANDREW J | 19d |
| 18109404 | GLASS CERAMICS AND GLASS COMPOSITE COMPOSITIONS | FORSYTH, PAUL ALAN | 26d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17953551 | SOLID POLYMER ELECTROLYTE MEMBRANE AND ELECTROCHROMIC DEVICE INCLUDING THE SAME | OYER, ANDREW J | 19d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1731 | 1 |
| 1767 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18109404 | GLASS CERAMICS AND GLASS COMPOSITE COMPOSITIONS | FORSYTH, PAUL ALAN | 1731 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 26d | Pending | Feb 14, 2023 |
| 17953551 | SOLID POLYMER ELECTROLYTE MEMBRANE AND ELECTROCHROMIC DEVICE INCLUDING THE SAME | OYER, ANDREW J | 1767 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 19d | Pending | Sep 27, 2022 |
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