Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Nagoya Institute Of Technology currently has 1 pending office action in the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. This matter is handled by 1 distinct examiner, ALEXANDER W NICOL, who is the busiest examiner for the institute with 1 pending office action. The prosecution is active within 1 distinct art unit, indicating a specific technical area of focus for the institute's current filings.
The institute's current patent activity is limited to this active case, making the prosecution process highly centralized. Success in the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals sector for this filing is entirely dependent on the review of ALEXANDER W NICOL. Since the activity is restricted to 1 distinct art unit, the institute faces a singular set of technical requirements. The presence of the specified art unit suggests that the institute is not currently diversifying its technical claims across different examination groups. This concentration means that the current filing represents the institute's entire workload and risk profile at the patent office.
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 |
|---|---|
| Double-patenting + 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NICOL, ALEXANDER W | 1 | 42.9% | +43.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18443512 | AGENT FOR RESTORING VISUAL FUNCTION OR AGENT FOR PREVENTING DETERIORATION IN VISUAL FUNCTION | NICOL, ALEXANDER W | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1634 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18443512 | AGENT FOR RESTORING VISUAL FUNCTION OR AGENT FOR PREVENTING DETERIORATION IN VISUAL FUNCTION | NICOL, ALEXANDER W | 1634 | §102§103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 16, 2024 |
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