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
Ochanomizu University is currently prosecuting 1 pending office action within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This active matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, BLAND, ALICIA, who is also the busiest examiner for the portfolio with 1 busiest examiner pending action. The concentration of the company's entire active workload under 1 distinct examiner suggests a highly centralized prosecution process at this stage.
The portfolio's activity is further limited to 1 distinct art unit, which indicates a specific technical focus for the current filings. This lack of diversity in art units means that the applicant can apply a consistent procedural approach without needing to adapt to the varying standards of different administrative groups. With 1 pending office action to manage, the company can focus its legal resources on a particular set of examiner concerns.
For patent practitioners, the primary task is to navigate the specific preferences of BLAND, ALICIA. The 1 distinct examiner's historical tendencies will be the most significant factor in determining the outcome of the 1 pending office action. Because the portfolio is currently situated within 1 distinct art unit, the strategy should be tailored to the particular guidelines and trends of that group within the Chemistry & Materials sector.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BLAND, ALICIA | 1 | 50.6% | +12.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18233473 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING FLUORINE-CONTAINING POLYMER AND FLUORINE-CONTAINING POLYMER | BLAND, ALICIA | — |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18233473 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING FLUORINE-CONTAINING POLYMER AND FLUORINE-CONTAINING POLYMER | BLAND, ALICIA | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1759 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18233473 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING FLUORINE-CONTAINING POLYMER AND FLUORINE-CONTAINING POLYMER | BLAND, ALICIA | 1759 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 14, 2023 |
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