Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
National Institute Of Biology currently manages a patent portfolio in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. The institute has 1 pending office action, which is being processed by 1 distinct examiner. This indicates a very specific and limited scope of active prosecution at the present time. Furthermore, the involvement of 1 distinct art unit suggests that the institute's current legal focus is restricted to a single technical category within the broader chemistry field, rather than spanning multiple specialized groups.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is WIECZOREK, MICHAEL P, who is managing 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Given that the total number of pending office actions is 1, this examiner is handling the entirety of the institute's active workload. This creates a situation where the institute's immediate patent strategy is highly dependent on the interactions with a single individual. For practitioners, this profile represents a straightforward prosecution environment with no current evidence of broad or multi-front patent office engagement across different examiners or art units in the Chemistry & Materials sector.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WIECZOREK, MICHAEL P | 1 | 55.4% | +16.8% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18339869 | METHOD FOR PREPARATION OF VIRUCIDAL POLYMER TEXTILE MATERIALS AND VIRUCIDAL FACE MASKS MADE FROM SAID MATERIALS | WIECZOREK, MICHAEL P | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18339869 | METHOD FOR PREPARATION OF VIRUCIDAL POLYMER TEXTILE MATERIALS AND VIRUCIDAL FACE MASKS MADE FROM SAID MATERIALS | WIECZOREK, MICHAEL P | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1712 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18339869 | METHOD FOR PREPARATION OF VIRUCIDAL POLYMER TEXTILE MATERIALS AND VIRUCIDAL FACE MASKS MADE FROM SAID MATERIALS | WIECZOREK, MICHAEL P | 1712 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 22, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialNational Institute Of Biology has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Michael P Wieczorek has the most, with 1 of National Institute Of Biology's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
