Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 7 patents granted in the last 365 days
Northwestern Polytechnical University is currently managing a patent portfolio in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. The portfolio contains 1 pending office action, which represents the university's current active prosecution at the patent office. This matter is being handled within 1 distinct art unit, indicating a specific technical focus for the pending application.
The examination process involves 1 distinct examiner, centralizing the prosecution efforts. LEAVITT, MORDECAI MIZANI is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, currently overseeing 1 pending office action. As the only examiner identified in the data, his specific review and procedural decisions will be the primary influence on the progress of the university's patent application in the Chemistry & Materials sector.
With 1 pending office action and 1 distinct examiner, the prosecution environment is highly concentrated. This allows for a very focused legal approach, but it also means that the university's immediate patent prospects are tied to a single examiner's interpretation. Practitioners should focus on the specific technical standards applied by LEAVITT, MORDECAI MIZANI to ensure a successful outcome for the 1 pending office action.
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) | 1 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LEAVITT, MORDECAI MIZANI | 1 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18500939 | MN-MOF-BASED COLD-ADAPTED NANOZYME AND PREPARATION METHOD THEREOF | LEAVITT, MORDECAI MIZANI | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1742 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18500939 | MN-MOF-BASED COLD-ADAPTED NANOZYME AND PREPARATION METHOD THEREOF | LEAVITT, MORDECAI MIZANI | 1742 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 02, 2023 |
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