Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
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 • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
National Formosa University currently manages 2 pending office actions within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These 2 pending office actions are assigned to 2 distinct examiners, ensuring that each application is reviewed by a different person. The portfolio is further diversified across 2 distinct art units, which means each matter is being handled by a different administrative section of the office.
The busiest examiner, TESSEMA, BESUFEKAD LEMMA, is responsible for 1 pending office action. Because this busiest examiner handles only 1 of the 2 pending office actions, the workload is distributed across the 2 distinct examiners. This lack of concentration in either examiners or art units suggests that the university's prosecution results are independent of any single examiner's or art unit's specific preferences. Practitioners should be prepared for different prosecution paths within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems sector.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TESSEMA, BESUFEKAD LEMMA | 1 | 47.6% | -7.1% |
| APPLEGATE, SARAH ARIMINTIA | 1 | 43.5% | +7.9% |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3665 | 1 |
| 1725 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18932280 | VEHICLE SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ASSESSING MACHINE HEALTH OF VEHICLE | TESSEMA, BESUFEKAD LEMMA | 3665 | §103 | Final Rejection | 6d | Pending | Oct 30, 2024 |
| 18215409 | LEAD-ACID BATTERY ELECTRODE PLATE AND METHOD FOR MAKING THEREOF, AND LEAD-ACID BATTERY | APPLEGATE, SARAH ARIMINTIA | 1725 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 1d overdue | Pending | Jun 28, 2023 |
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