Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
National Pingtung University Of Science And Technology has a company patent portfolio in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. The portfolio contains 2 pending office actions. These 2 actions are assigned to 2 distinct examiners.
Both examiners are working within 1 distinct art unit. This concentration in a 1 distinct art unit means that while 2 distinct examiners are involved, they likely follow the same internal policies. The busiest examiner, GOLIGHTLY, ERIC WAYNE, is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending office action.
With 2 pending office actions and 2 distinct examiners, the workload is evenly distributed. The focus on 1 distinct art unit for all Chemistry & Materials filings suggests a specific technical specialization for the university's current pending applications. Practitioners can streamline their approach by focusing on the standards of this 1 distinct art unit while managing 2 distinct examiners.
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 (50%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GOLIGHTLY, ERIC WAYNE | 1 | 77.6% | +25.5% |
| MELCHIOR, JAMES RYLAND | 1 | 63.0% | +38.5% |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18948917 | METHOD OF EXTRACTING CHEMICAL SUBSTANCES FROM USED MOLDING SAND | GOLIGHTLY, ERIC WAYNE | — |
| 18394532 | PORCINE BIVALENT SUBUNIT VACCINE COMPOSITION IN A SINGLE DOSE | MELCHIOR, JAMES RYLAND | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1714 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18948917 | METHOD OF EXTRACTING CHEMICAL SUBSTANCES FROM USED MOLDING SAND | GOLIGHTLY, ERIC WAYNE | 1714 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 15, 2024 |
| 18394532 | PORCINE BIVALENT SUBUNIT VACCINE COMPOSITION IN A SINGLE DOSE | MELCHIOR, JAMES RYLAND | — | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 22, 2023 |
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