Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
9 pending office actions • 7 art units • 9 examiners • 0 of 9 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 8 patents granted in the last 365 days
The New Jersey Institute of Technology is currently managing 8 pending office actions, all within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This volume of activity is distributed across 6 distinct art units, suggesting a range of chemical and material science applications within the portfolio. The prosecution involves 8 distinct examiners, which means that each pending action is being reviewed by a different individual.
The busiest examiner for the institute is ARNOLD, ERNST V, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. Given the distribution of the workload, no examiner handles more than 1 case. This lack of examiner overlap requires the institute to manage separate sets of examiner preferences and procedural styles simultaneously.
The use of 6 distinct art units indicates that while the technology area is consistent, the specific technical focuses are varied. Practitioners must navigate a landscape of multiple examiners to advance the portfolio. This diversity in examiners and art units suggests that the institute's research in Chemistry & Materials is multifaceted and requires broad technical coverage during prosecution.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 5 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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. 5 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 2 (22%) |
| §103 only | 1 (11%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 6 (67%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ARNOLD, ERNST V | 1 | 48.2% | +12.9% |
| YU, DAVID TUYANG | 1 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
| MARCHESCHI, MICHAEL A | 1 | 20.0% | +17.9% |
| HOBSON, STEPHEN | 1 | 65.4% | +20.3% |
| KIM, SAMUEL CHONG | 1 | 48.7% | +70.4% |
| DETERDING, GWYNEVERE AMELIA | 1 | 71.4% | +35.7% |
| VARMA, AKASH K | 1 | 66.5% | +34.4% |
| MCCULLOUGH, ERIC J. | 1 | 31.8% | +43.4% |
| ALABI, OYELEYE A | 1 | 84.0% | +25.2% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17857580 | Porous Composite Membrane for Solvent Extraction | MCCULLOUGH, ERIC J. | 98d overdue |
| 18377482 | Hollow Fiber Membrane Supported Metal Organic Framework (MOF) Based Device | HOBSON, STEPHEN | 38d overdue |
| 17678295 | Relative Quantitation Using Electrochemical Mass Spectrometry | ALABI, OYELEYE A | 1d overdue |
| 18323364 | TRANSFORMER-BASED SURROGATE MODEL MODULE FOR ELECTRIC CIRCUIT PERFORMANCE MODELING | DETERDING, GWYNEVERE AMELIA | 12d |
| 18508563 | Addressable Microfluidics Systems and Methods for In Vivo Applications | MARCHESCHI, MICHAEL A | 23d |
| 18789155 | Method of using binary coating agents in powder coating to achieve enhanced properties of the coated powder and its blends having cohesive powders | ARNOLD, ERNST V | — |
| 18524574 | GENE DELIVERY FOR PREVENTION AND TREATMENT OF BALDNESS | YU, DAVID TUYANG | — |
| 18243354 | System and Method for Quantification and Feedback of Eye Deviations | KIM, SAMUEL CHONG | — |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17857580 | Porous Composite Membrane for Solvent Extraction | MCCULLOUGH, ERIC J. | 98d overdue |
| 18377482 | Hollow Fiber Membrane Supported Metal Organic Framework (MOF) Based Device | HOBSON, STEPHEN | 38d overdue |
| 17678295 | Relative Quantitation Using Electrochemical Mass Spectrometry | ALABI, OYELEYE A | 1d overdue |
| 18323364 | TRANSFORMER-BASED SURROGATE MODEL MODULE FOR ELECTRIC CIRCUIT PERFORMANCE MODELING | DETERDING, GWYNEVERE AMELIA | 12d |
| 18508563 | Addressable Microfluidics Systems and Methods for In Vivo Applications | MARCHESCHI, MICHAEL A | 23d |
| 18789155 | Method of using binary coating agents in powder coating to achieve enhanced properties of the coated powder and its blends having cohesive powders | ARNOLD, ERNST V | — |
| 18243354 | System and Method for Quantification and Feedback of Eye Deviations | KIM, SAMUEL CHONG | — |
| 18118547 | System for Ultrapurification of Organic Solvent | VARMA, AKASH K | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1773 | 2 |
| 4100 | 1 |
| 1796 | 1 |
| 1776 | 1 |
| 3791 | 1 |
| 2125 | 1 |
| 1797 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18789155 | Method of using binary coating agents in powder coating to achieve enhanced properties of the coated powder and its blends having cohesive powders | ARNOLD, ERNST V | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 30, 2024 |
| 18524574 | GENE DELIVERY FOR PREVENTION AND TREATMENT OF BALDNESS | YU, DAVID TUYANG | 4100 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 30, 2023 |
| 18508563 | Addressable Microfluidics Systems and Methods for In Vivo Applications | MARCHESCHI, MICHAEL A | 1796 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 23d | Pending | Nov 14, 2023 |
| 18377482 | Hollow Fiber Membrane Supported Metal Organic Framework (MOF) Based Device | HOBSON, STEPHEN | 1776 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 38d overdue | Pending | Oct 06, 2023 |
| 18243354 | System and Method for Quantification and Feedback of Eye Deviations | KIM, SAMUEL CHONG | 3791 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 07, 2023 |
| 18323364 | TRANSFORMER-BASED SURROGATE MODEL MODULE FOR ELECTRIC CIRCUIT PERFORMANCE MODELING | DETERDING, GWYNEVERE AMELIA | 2125 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | 12d | Pending | May 24, 2023 |
| 18118547 | System for Ultrapurification of Organic Solvent | VARMA, AKASH K | 1773 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 07, 2023 |
| 17857580 | Porous Composite Membrane for Solvent Extraction | MCCULLOUGH, ERIC J. | 1773 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 98d overdue | Pending | Jul 05, 2022 |
| 17678295 | Relative Quantitation Using Electrochemical Mass Spectrometry | ALABI, OYELEYE A | 1797 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 1d overdue | Pending | Feb 23, 2022 |
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