Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Northeast Forestry University currently manages 2 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These matters are distributed across 2 distinct examiners and distinct art units. The presence of the distinct art units suggests that the university's patenting activities in Chemistry & Materials are not confined to a single specialized subgroup.
ANTHONY J CALANDRA is identified as the busiest examiner for this portfolio. This individual is responsible for 1 pending office action, which is 1 of the total pending actions for the university. Because there are multiple distinct examiners for the active workload, the university's prosecution progress is not dependent on the schedule of a single examiner. The distribution of work across different personnel and groups indicates the approach to securing intellectual property. Practitioners should note that the university interacts with multiple examiners even when the total number of active matters is low. This structure requires coordination across different art units to ensure consistency in the Chemistry & Materials portfolio.
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 |
|---|---|
| §112 only | 1 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CALANDRA, ANTHONY J | 1 | 62.8% | +18.7% |
| WEDDLE, ALEXANDER MARION | 1 | 63.6% | +25.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18206897 | FLAME RETARDANT WOOD, PREPARATION METHOD THEREOF AND USE OF METAL HALIDE | WEDDLE, ALEXANDER MARION | 13d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18206897 | FLAME RETARDANT WOOD, PREPARATION METHOD THEREOF AND USE OF METAL HALIDE | WEDDLE, ALEXANDER MARION | 13d |
| 18864538 | Method of Preparing High-Strength, High-Toughness, and Recyclable Fiberboard with Bionic Structure | CALANDRA, ANTHONY J | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1748 | 1 |
| 1712 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18864538 | Method of Preparing High-Strength, High-Toughness, and Recyclable Fiberboard with Bionic Structure | CALANDRA, ANTHONY J | 1748 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 10, 2024 |
| 18206897 | FLAME RETARDANT WOOD, PREPARATION METHOD THEREOF AND USE OF METAL HALIDE | WEDDLE, ALEXANDER MARION | 1712 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 13d | Pending | Jun 07, 2023 |
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