Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
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
Montanuniversität Leoben has 2 pending office actions in its patent portfolio within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These 2 actions are assigned to 2 distinct examiners. The prosecution is distributed across 2 distinct art units, which suggests that the pending applications cover different technical niches within the materials sector. The involvement of 2 distinct art units within the Chemistry & Materials field is significant for practitioners, as it implies that each application is being reviewed by a different specialized group.
The busiest examiner for the university is VALENCIA, JUAN C, who is currently overseeing 1 pending office action. With 2 pending actions and 2 distinct examiners, the workload is divided equally, with each examiner handling 1 action. This means VALENCIA, JUAN C is responsible for half of the university's current pending office action responses. The 2 to 2 ratio of actions to examiners ensures that each pending matter is being independently evaluated by a different official in a different unit. This distribution provides a variety of examiner perspectives on the university's intellectual property.
Practitioners should be prepared to manage 2 different examiner relationships while navigating the specific standards of 2 art units. This profile represents a balanced prosecution environment where individual examiner attention is maintained across multiple technical departments. The involvement of 2 distinct art units suggests that the university's innovations touch upon different sub-specialties within the Chemistry & Materials sector. This data provides a baseline for future filings, as any expansion in the portfolio will likely introduce new examiners or 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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 1 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| VALENCIA, JUAN C | 1 | 86.5% | +7.7% |
| RODRIGUEZ, JOSEPH C | 1 | 78.4% | +15.8% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18845714 | PROCESSING A HYDROCARBON USING PYROLYSIS, METHOD AND APPARATUS | VALENCIA, JUAN C | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18555488 | SEPARATION OF MATERIAL TO BE SEPARATED IN A CENTRIFUGAL FORCE SEPARATOR | RODRIGUEZ, JOSEPH C | 9d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1771 | 1 |
| 3653 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18845714 | PROCESSING A HYDROCARBON USING PYROLYSIS, METHOD AND APPARATUS | VALENCIA, JUAN C | 1771 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 10, 2024 |
| 18555488 | SEPARATION OF MATERIAL TO BE SEPARATED IN A CENTRIFUGAL FORCE SEPARATOR | RODRIGUEZ, JOSEPH C | 3653 | §103 | Final Rejection | 9d | Pending | Oct 13, 2023 |
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