Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
5 pending office actions • 3 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 14 patents granted in the last 365 days
National Institute for Materials Science has 5 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are distributed across 3 distinct art units, indicating a focused but slightly varied technical classification for their materials-based applications. The institute is working with 5 distinct examiners, which means that every pending action is assigned to a different individual.
GONZALEZ RAMOS, MAYLA is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending office action currently assigned. With 5 examiners for 5 pending office actions, there is no concentration of workload with any single individual. Practitioners must manage 5 separate examiner relationships across 3 art units, requiring a strategy that accounts for the specific nuances of each examiner's review process and the standards of each unit.
The distribution of 5 pending office actions across 3 distinct art units suggests that the institute's intellectual property is technically diverse within the Chemistry & Materials sector. For a practitioner, the fact that every action is with a different examiner means there is no central point of contact to streamline the portfolio. Each of the 5 pending office actions must be prosecuted as an independent matter, with no opportunity to leverage a single examiner's understanding across multiple cases.
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 (20%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (20%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (60%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MOORE, DEVON TYLEN | 1 | 48.9% | +35.8% |
| FERGUSON, DION | 1 | 87.0% | +8.2% |
| DIETERLE, JENNIFER M | 1 | 66.1% | +27.2% |
| CARPENTER, JOSHUA S | 1 | 51.9% | +36.9% |
| BARZACH, JEFFREY EUGENE | 1 | 57.1% | +40.6% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18686624 | COBALT-CHROMIUM ALLOY MEMBER, METHOD OF PRODUCING THE SAME, AND DEVICE USING THE SAME | CARPENTER, JOSHUA S | 17d overdue |
| 18996410 | CO2 SEPARATION SYSTEM | MOORE, DEVON TYLEN | — |
| 18872101 | FERROMAGNETIC CAPACITOR | FERGUSON, DION | — |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18686624 | COBALT-CHROMIUM ALLOY MEMBER, METHOD OF PRODUCING THE SAME, AND DEVICE USING THE SAME | CARPENTER, JOSHUA S | 17d overdue |
| 18996410 | CO2 SEPARATION SYSTEM | MOORE, DEVON TYLEN | — |
| 18834091 | CO2 ADSORBENT AND CO2 SEPARATION AND RECOVERY METHOD USING THE SAME | DIETERLE, JENNIFER M | — |
| 18577332 | ADHESIVE, WOUND DRESSING MATERIAL, ANTI-ADHESION MATERIAL, HEMOSTATIC MATERIAL, SEALANT, AND SPRAY KIT | BARZACH, JEFFREY EUGENE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3763 | 1 |
| 2847 | 1 |
| 1733 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18996410 | CO2 SEPARATION SYSTEM | MOORE, DEVON TYLEN | 3763 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 17, 2025 |
| 18872101 | FERROMAGNETIC CAPACITOR | FERGUSON, DION | 2847 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 05, 2024 |
| 18834091 | CO2 ADSORBENT AND CO2 SEPARATION AND RECOVERY METHOD USING THE SAME | DIETERLE, JENNIFER M | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 29, 2024 |
| 18686624 | COBALT-CHROMIUM ALLOY MEMBER, METHOD OF PRODUCING THE SAME, AND DEVICE USING THE SAME | CARPENTER, JOSHUA S | 1733 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 17d overdue | Pending | Feb 26, 2024 |
| 18577332 | ADHESIVE, WOUND DRESSING MATERIAL, ANTI-ADHESION MATERIAL, HEMOSTATIC MATERIAL, SEALANT, AND SPRAY KIT | BARZACH, JEFFREY EUGENE | — | §103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 08, 2024 |
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