Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
4 pending office actions • 2 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
National University Corporation Tokyo University Of Agriculture And Technology shows a focused set of active filings in the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. The portfolio currently includes 4 pending office actions, which are distributed among 4 distinct examiners. This 4 pending office actions total suggests that the university is maintaining multiple independent patent tracks. The use of 4 distinct examiners ensures that each application receives an individual evaluation within the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals field.
The active cases are situated within 2 distinct art units, indicating that the research and development efforts are concentrated in specific technical niches. TUONGMINH NGUYEN PHAM is identified as the busiest examiner, currently holding 1 busiest examiner pending office action. With 2 distinct art units in use, the university must coordinate its prosecution strategy to ensure consistency across different examining groups. The presence of 1 busiest examiner pending office action for the busiest examiner indicates that the workload is spread across the 4 distinct examiners involved in the current prosecution cycle.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PHAM, TUONGMINH NGUYEN | 1 | 67.8% | +35.3% |
| ZEMUI, NATHANAEL T | 1 | 56.0% | +24.1% |
| EIX, EMILY FAY | 1 | 45.5% | +78.3% |
| SUN, PINPING | 1 | 74.8% | +38.6% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18029224 | ENGINEERED STABLE LACTATE OXIDOREDUCTASES, COMPOSITIONS, DEVICES, KITS AND USES THEREOF | EIX, EMILY FAY | 104d overdue |
| 18850629 | PLASMA NANO MIST GENERATION DEVICE | PHAM, TUONGMINH NGUYEN | — |
| 18681700 | ELECTRODE BINDER, ELECTRODE MIXTURE LAYER-FORMING COMPOSITION, LITHIUM ION SECONDARY BATTERY ELECTRODE, AND LITHIUM ION SECONDARY BATTERY | ZEMUI, NATHANAEL T | — |
| 17639339 | THERMAL RADIATION LENS | SUN, PINPING | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18029224 | ENGINEERED STABLE LACTATE OXIDOREDUCTASES, COMPOSITIONS, DEVICES, KITS AND USES THEREOF | EIX, EMILY FAY | 104d overdue |
| 18850629 | PLASMA NANO MIST GENERATION DEVICE | PHAM, TUONGMINH NGUYEN | — |
| 18681700 | ELECTRODE BINDER, ELECTRODE MIXTURE LAYER-FORMING COMPOSITION, LITHIUM ION SECONDARY BATTERY ELECTRODE, AND LITHIUM ION SECONDARY BATTERY | ZEMUI, NATHANAEL T | — |
| 17639339 | THERMAL RADIATION LENS | SUN, PINPING | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1653 | 1 |
| 2872 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18850629 | PLASMA NANO MIST GENERATION DEVICE | PHAM, TUONGMINH NGUYEN | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 25, 2024 |
| 18681700 | ELECTRODE BINDER, ELECTRODE MIXTURE LAYER-FORMING COMPOSITION, LITHIUM ION SECONDARY BATTERY ELECTRODE, AND LITHIUM ION SECONDARY BATTERY | ZEMUI, NATHANAEL T | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 06, 2024 |
| 18029224 | ENGINEERED STABLE LACTATE OXIDOREDUCTASES, COMPOSITIONS, DEVICES, KITS AND USES THEREOF | EIX, EMILY FAY | 1653 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 104d overdue | Pending | Mar 29, 2023 |
| 17639339 | THERMAL RADIATION LENS | SUN, PINPING | 2872 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 01, 2022 |
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