Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

National Institute For Materials Science

10 pending office actions • 7 art units • 9 examiners • 0 of 10 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 14 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

10
Total Pending OAs
3
Non-Final OAs
7
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 10 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

8
Overdue
0
Due this week
2
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
0
Due later

Deadline Fire Line

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. 10 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (8)Due ≤ 30 days (2)

Case Difficulty Mix

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.

0
Hard (0%)
6
Medium (60%)
0
Easy (0%)
4
Unknown (40%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only6 (60%)
No statute on record4 (40%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

8
Life Sciences
80% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
2
Semiconductors
20% of docket
0
Mechanical / Eng
0% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

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.

100 h
Manual time on pending OAs
20 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
35 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.9 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
CARPENTER, JOSHUA S 2 50.4% +39.2%
HOBAN, MATTHEW E 1 60.0% +24.9%
DIETERLE, JENNIFER M 1 65.6% +27.6%
ZHANG, RUIYUN 1 70.2% +10.2%
JANSSEN, REBECCA 1 60.5% +30.0%
EDMONDSON, LYNNE RENEE 1 71.1% +15.6%
LACLAIR, LOGAN EDWARD 1 77.8% +23.7%
KWOK, HELEN C 1 80.8% +6.8%
KIM, JAY C 1 48.8% +22.3%

Quick Wins (1)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17800386 METHOD FOR SELECTING PRIMARY ODORS, METHOD FOR REPRESENTING, PRESENTING, OR SYNTHESIZING AN ODOR BY COMBINATION OF PRIMARY ODORS, AND APPARATUS FOR THE SAME KWOK, HELEN C 134d overdue

Interview Candidates (9)

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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18014737 HYBRID AEROGEL, METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE SAME, AND THERMAL INSULATION MATERIAL USING HYBRID AEROGEL LACLAIR, LOGAN EDWARD 88d overdue
18322782 METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING TURBINE COMPONENT, METHOD FOR REPAIRING THE SAME, AND TURBINE COMPONENT JANSSEN, REBECCA 66d overdue
18787126 PHOSPHOR, LIGHT-EMITTING DEVICE, ILLUMINATION DEVICE, IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE, AND INDICATOR LAMP FOR VEHICLE HOBAN, MATTHEW E 59d overdue
18171712 GAN CRYSTAL AND GAN SUBSTRATE EDMONDSON, LYNNE RENEE 59d overdue
17406218 GAN CRYSTAL AND SUBSTRATE KIM, JAY C 28d overdue
18686624 COBALT-CHROMIUM ALLOY MEMBER, METHOD OF PRODUCING THE SAME, AND DEVICE USING THE SAME CARPENTER, JOSHUA S 17d overdue
18011745 COBALT-CHROMIUM ALLOY MEMBER, METHOD OF PRODUCING THE SAME, AND MEDICAL OR AEROSPACE DEVICE CARPENTER, JOSHUA S 17d overdue
18276573 OXYGEN CHANNEL AND COLLECTOR FOR AIR CELLS, AND AIR CELL DIETERLE, JENNIFER M 8d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1733 3
1734 2
1776 1
1782 1
1736 1
2855 1
2815 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18787126 PHOSPHOR, LIGHT-EMITTING DEVICE, ILLUMINATION DEVICE, IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE, AND INDICATOR LAMP FOR VEHICLE HOBAN, MATTHEW E 1734 §103 Non-Final OA 59d overdue Pending Jul 29, 2024
18686624 COBALT-CHROMIUM ALLOY MEMBER, METHOD OF PRODUCING THE SAME, AND DEVICE USING THE SAME CARPENTER, JOSHUA S 1733 Other Non-Final OA 17d overdue Pending Feb 26, 2024
18276573 OXYGEN CHANNEL AND COLLECTOR FOR AIR CELLS, AND AIR CELL DIETERLE, JENNIFER M 1776 §103 Non-Final OA 8d Pending Aug 09, 2023
18039221 POLYMERIZABLE COMPOSITION AND RESIN-IMPREGNATED SUPERCONDUCTING COIL ZHANG, RUIYUN 1782 §103 Final Rejection 14d Pending May 27, 2023
18322782 METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING TURBINE COMPONENT, METHOD FOR REPAIRING THE SAME, AND TURBINE COMPONENT JANSSEN, REBECCA 1733 §103 Final Rejection 66d overdue Pending May 24, 2023
18171712 GAN CRYSTAL AND GAN SUBSTRATE EDMONDSON, LYNNE RENEE 1734 Other Final Rejection 59d overdue Pending Feb 21, 2023
18014737 HYBRID AEROGEL, METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE SAME, AND THERMAL INSULATION MATERIAL USING HYBRID AEROGEL LACLAIR, LOGAN EDWARD 1736 Other Final Rejection 88d overdue Pending Jan 05, 2023
18011745 COBALT-CHROMIUM ALLOY MEMBER, METHOD OF PRODUCING THE SAME, AND MEDICAL OR AEROSPACE DEVICE CARPENTER, JOSHUA S 1733 Other Final Rejection 17d overdue Pending Dec 20, 2022
17800386 METHOD FOR SELECTING PRIMARY ODORS, METHOD FOR REPRESENTING, PRESENTING, OR SYNTHESIZING AN ODOR BY COMBINATION OF PRIMARY ODORS, AND APPARATUS FOR THE SAME KWOK, HELEN C 2855 §103 Final Rejection 134d overdue Pending Aug 17, 2022
17406218 GAN CRYSTAL AND SUBSTRATE KIM, JAY C 2815 §103 Final Rejection 28d overdue Pending Aug 19, 2021

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