Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Murdoch University currently manages 1 pending office action in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This matter is assigned to HYUN, PAUL SANG HWA, who is the busiest examiner for the university. The portfolio shows a high degree of concentration with 1 distinct examiner and a single distinct art unit involved.
This indicates that the university's active US patent prosecution is currently very limited in scope. The outcome of the 1 pending office action will be the primary indicator of the university's success in securing chemistry-related patents in the near term. The reliance on HYUN, PAUL SANG HWA means the strategy is sensitive to the individual tendencies of that examiner.
Practitioners should focus on the specific requirements of the involved art unit to ensure the filing meets all technical standards. As the university continues its research, future filings may diversify the portfolio across more examiners and units. For now, the success of the university's chemistry-related IP depends on navigating the requirements of this single active prosecution track.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HYUN, PAUL SANG HWA | 1 | 69.8% | +36.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18262262 | INFECTION DIAGNOSIS AND CHARACTERIZATION USING DIFFUSION AND RELAXATION EDITED PROTON NMR SPECTROSCOPY | HYUN, PAUL SANG HWA | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18262262 | INFECTION DIAGNOSIS AND CHARACTERIZATION USING DIFFUSION AND RELAXATION EDITED PROTON NMR SPECTROSCOPY | HYUN, PAUL SANG HWA | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1796 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18262262 | INFECTION DIAGNOSIS AND CHARACTERIZATION USING DIFFUSION AND RELAXATION EDITED PROTON NMR SPECTROSCOPY | HYUN, PAUL SANG HWA | 1796 | §101§102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 20, 2023 |
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