Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
3 pending office actions • 1 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 8 patents granted in the last 365 days
National University Corporation Shizuoka University has 3 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These matters are all assigned to 1 distinct art unit, which centralizes the university's material science research under a single administrative body. Despite this centralization, the university interacts with 3 distinct examiners, as each of the pending office actions is assigned to a different individual.
ALGARASH, KAREM AKRAM is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, with 1 pending office action currently active. The distribution of the workload across the examiners suggests that the university's prosecution experience is diverse, even while remaining within the Chemistry & Materials field. This structure requires the university to manage separate examiner relationships simultaneously within the identified art unit. The data shows that no single examiner dominates the active matters, as the busiest examiner holds only a single action.
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 |
|---|---|
| §102 only | 1 (33%) |
| §112 only | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ALGARASH, KAREM AKRAM | 1 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
| RIDER, JUSTIN W | 1 | 84.2% | +12.1% |
| GAMBLE JR, RANDALL LEE | 1 | 51.4% | +27.6% |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18835655 | DISTANCE MEASURING DEVICE AND DISTANCE MEASURING METHOD | RIDER, JUSTIN W | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18850700 | DAMPER DEVICE | ALGARASH, KAREM AKRAM | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18704400 | ION CONCENTRATION MEASUREMENT DEVICE | GAMBLE JR, RANDALL LEE | 41d |
| 18835655 | DISTANCE MEASURING DEVICE AND DISTANCE MEASURING METHOD | RIDER, JUSTIN W | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1795 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18850700 | DAMPER DEVICE | ALGARASH, KAREM AKRAM | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 25, 2024 |
| 18835655 | DISTANCE MEASURING DEVICE AND DISTANCE MEASURING METHOD | RIDER, JUSTIN W | — | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 02, 2024 |
| 18704400 | ION CONCENTRATION MEASUREMENT DEVICE | GAMBLE JR, RANDALL LEE | 1795 | §112 | Final Rejection | 41d | Pending | Apr 24, 2024 |
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