Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Chemistry & Materials
18 pending office actions • 11 art units • 18 examiners • 0 of 18 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 20 patents granted in the last 365 days
Nano and Advanced Materials Institute Limited is managing 17 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are distributed among 17 distinct examiners, which means every single pending matter is handled by a different person. These examiners are located across 10 distinct art units.
TILLMAN, JR, REGINALD S is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, though they only have 1 pending office action. The 10 distinct art units indicate a very broad technical range within the chemistry and materials field.
Practitioners must navigate 17 different examiner perspectives for the 17 pending office actions. The high number of 10 distinct art units suggests that the company's innovations are highly diverse. Because TILLMAN, JR, REGINALD S and all other examiners have a single pending action each, there is no concentration of workload with any single official.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 | 7 (39%) |
| §102 only | 1 (6%) |
| §112 only | 2 (11%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (6%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 7 (39%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TILLMAN, JR, REGINALD S | 1 | 77.8% | +11.3% |
| BARTLETT, VICTORIA | 1 | 51.3% | +30.2% |
| NELSON, MICHAEL B | 1 | 21.2% | +37.0% |
| PHILLIPS, SAVANNAH GRACE | 1 | — | — |
| KHAN, AMINA S | 1 | 47.5% | +43.0% |
| KURTZ, BENJAMIN M | 1 | 56.8% | +17.6% |
| GOLDEN, CHINESSA T | 1 | 57.9% | +4.8% |
| LEONARD, MICHAEL L | 1 | 63.7% | +8.3% |
| HOLBROOK, MIA KEILANI | 1 | 50.0% | +100.0% |
| EMRICH, LARISSA ROWE | 1 | 48.3% | +41.8% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18499252 | HIGH TEMPERATURE RESISTANT PROBIOTICS FOR FOOD OR BEVERAGE AND METHOD OF MAKING THE SAME | GOTFREDSON, GAREN | 19d overdue |
| 18180149 | NAPHTHOPYRAN-CONTAINING COMPOUND, POLYMER, MIXTURE, COMPOSITION AND USE THEREOF IN WATER-SOLUBLE PHOTOCHROMIC MATERIALS | AHVAZI, BIJAN | 16d |
| 19000578 | MULTI-THREAT PROTECTIVE ARTICLE WITH A MULTI-LAYERED FABRIC COMPOSITE | TILLMAN, JR, REGINALD S | — |
| 18908865 | QUASI-PERMANENT CHARGE-BEARING NANOFIBER AND METHOD OF FORMING THEREOF | BARTLETT, VICTORIA | — |
| 18762661 | Fluorine-free Water- and oil-resistant Coating Composition and Coating Solution, Coating Layer, and Product Comprising the Same | NELSON, MICHAEL B | — |
| 18623069 | LIGHTWEIGHT NANOBUBBLE GENERATOR | KURTZ, BENJAMIN M | — |
| 18402071 | AEROGEL FIBER | EMRICH, LARISSA ROWE | — |
| 18393724 | MULTIMODE IMMERSION COOLING | HINCAPIE SERNA, GUSTAVO A | — |
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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19000578 | MULTI-THREAT PROTECTIVE ARTICLE WITH A MULTI-LAYERED FABRIC COMPOSITE | TILLMAN, JR, REGINALD S | — |
| 18908865 | QUASI-PERMANENT CHARGE-BEARING NANOFIBER AND METHOD OF FORMING THEREOF | BARTLETT, VICTORIA | — |
| 18762661 | Fluorine-free Water- and oil-resistant Coating Composition and Coating Solution, Coating Layer, and Product Comprising the Same | NELSON, MICHAEL B | — |
| 18635176 | ANTIMICROBIAL COATING COMPOSITION AND METHOD OF USE THEREOF | KHAN, AMINA S | — |
| 18623069 | LIGHTWEIGHT NANOBUBBLE GENERATOR | KURTZ, BENJAMIN M | — |
| 18590980 | WIDE OPERATING TEMPERATURE RANGE SECONDARY LITHIUM-ION BATTERIES | HOLBROOK, MIA KEILANI | — |
| 18402071 | AEROGEL FIBER | EMRICH, LARISSA ROWE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1787 | 2 |
| 1763 | 2 |
| 3641 | 1 |
| 1744 | 1 |
| 1761 | 1 |
| 1789 | 1 |
| 3763 | 1 |
| 1612 | 1 |
| 1619 | 1 |
| 1754 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19000578 | MULTI-THREAT PROTECTIVE ARTICLE WITH A MULTI-LAYERED FABRIC COMPOSITE | TILLMAN, JR, REGINALD S | 3641 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 23, 2024 |
| 18908865 | QUASI-PERMANENT CHARGE-BEARING NANOFIBER AND METHOD OF FORMING THEREOF | BARTLETT, VICTORIA | 1744 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 08, 2024 |
| 18762661 | Fluorine-free Water- and oil-resistant Coating Composition and Coating Solution, Coating Layer, and Product Comprising the Same | NELSON, MICHAEL B | 1787 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 03, 2024 |
| 18635031 | MASTER BATCH COMPOSITION FOR A WEIGHT-REDUCED PLASTIC PRODUCT AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME | PHILLIPS, SAVANNAH GRACE | — | §103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 15, 2024 |
| 18635176 | ANTIMICROBIAL COATING COMPOSITION AND METHOD OF USE THEREOF | KHAN, AMINA S | 1761 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 15, 2024 |
| 18623069 | LIGHTWEIGHT NANOBUBBLE GENERATOR | KURTZ, BENJAMIN M | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 01, 2024 |
| 18604441 | LIGHTWEIGHT CORE-SHELL AGGREGATE AND CONCRETE | GOLDEN, CHINESSA T | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 13, 2024 |
| 18592537 | ANTI-FOGGING COMPOSITION AND ANTI-FOGGING PLASTICS PREPARED THEREFROM | LEONARD, MICHAEL L | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 01, 2024 |
| 18590980 | WIDE OPERATING TEMPERATURE RANGE SECONDARY LITHIUM-ION BATTERIES | HOLBROOK, MIA KEILANI | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 29, 2024 |
| 18402071 | AEROGEL FIBER | EMRICH, LARISSA ROWE | 1789 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 02, 2024 |
| 18393724 | MULTIMODE IMMERSION COOLING | HINCAPIE SERNA, GUSTAVO A | 3763 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 22, 2023 |
| 18506144 | ACID AND ALKALI-RESISTANT AND THERMOSTABILIZED ANTIMICROBIAL PEPTIDES, AND MANUFACTURE METHODS AND APPLICATIONS THEREOF | WELLES, COLMAN THOMAS | 1612 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 10, 2023 |
| 18499252 | HIGH TEMPERATURE RESISTANT PROBIOTICS FOR FOOD OR BEVERAGE AND METHOD OF MAKING THE SAME | GOTFREDSON, GAREN | 1619 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 19d overdue | Pending | Nov 01, 2023 |
| 18453311 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING LIGHTWEIGHT THERMAL INSULATING CELLULAR CEMENT-BASED MATERIALS | GROUX, JENNIFER LILA | 1754 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 22, 2023 |
| 18448970 | OXYGEN BARRIER COATING COMPOSITION AND COATING SOLUTION, COATING LAYER, AND PRODUCT COMPRISING THE SAME | CHEN, VIVIAN | 1787 | §112 | Final Rejection | 14d | Pending | Aug 14, 2023 |
| 18336055 | VERSATILE SELF-ADHESIVE MODIFIERS ON SILICONE RUBBER FOR BONDING PLASTIC AUTOMATICALLY | DONAHUE, OLGA LUCIA | 1763 | §102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 16, 2023 |
| 18296962 | ANTIBACTERIAL AND ANTIVIRAL FABRIC, FORMULATION FOR SOFT COATING AND METHOD OF FABRICATING THE SAME | PAK, JOHN D | 1699 | §112 | Non-Final OA | 72d | Pending | Apr 06, 2023 |
| 18180149 | NAPHTHOPYRAN-CONTAINING COMPOUND, POLYMER, MIXTURE, COMPOSITION AND USE THEREOF IN WATER-SOLUBLE PHOTOCHROMIC MATERIALS | AHVAZI, BIJAN | 1763 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 16d | Pending | Mar 08, 2023 |
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