Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
8 pending office actions • 7 art units • 8 examiners • 1 of 8 (12%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Ohio University maintains a patent portfolio focused on the Chemistry & Materials technology area. The university currently has 6 pending office actions being reviewed by 6 distinct examiners. Because the number of 6 distinct examiners equals the number of 6 pending office actions, each examiner is managing exactly 1 matter for the institution. These prosecution efforts are distributed across 5 distinct art units. JACK ROBERT BREWER is the busiest examiner for the university, with 1 pending office action under review.
This examiner handles 1 of the 6 pending office actions currently active for Ohio University. The spread across 5 distinct art units indicates that the university's research and patenting activities are diverse within the Chemistry & Materials sector. For practitioners, this level of distribution means that the portfolio is not overly dependent on any single examiner's discretion. With JACK ROBERT BREWER and the other 6 distinct examiners each handling 1 pending office action, the university's intellectual property strategy is spread across multiple examination groups at the USPTO.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 3 (38%) |
| §102 only | 1 (12%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BREWER, JACK ROBERT | 1 | 50.0% | +66.7% |
| HELLMAN, KRISTINA M | 1 | 65.3% | +55.3% |
| WHITE, SADIE | 1 | 48.8% | +31.6% |
| WONG, EDNA | 1 | 58.4% | -19.7% |
| HEVEY, JOHN A | 1 | 61.6% | +19.9% |
| BULLOCK, IN SUK C | 1 | 51.0% | +28.6% |
| OYER, ANDREW J | 1 | 79.2% | +16.5% |
| DESTEFANO, AUDRA JEAN | 1 | 56.4% | +61.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18902224 | MARINE SURFACE VESSEL TRAJECTORY TRACKING CONTROL | BREWER, JACK ROBERT | — |
| 18802702 | Methods for Regulating Muscle Performance using Fat Specific Protein 27 (FSP27) Compositions | HELLMAN, KRISTINA M | — |
| 18247610 | POLYMER COMPOSITES COMPRISING CARBON SOURCE MATERIALS | OYER, ANDREW J | — |
| 17997051 | UPCYCLING OF POLYSTYRENE REINFORCED 3D PRINTABLE PHOTOPOLYMER NANOCOMPOSITES AND RING OPENING COPOLYMERIZATION | DESTEFANO, AUDRA JEAN | — |
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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18536709 | ULTRACONDUCTIVE METAL COMPOSITE FORMS AND THE SYNTHESIS THEREOF | HEVEY, JOHN A | 128d overdue |
| 18902224 | MARINE SURFACE VESSEL TRAJECTORY TRACKING CONTROL | BREWER, JACK ROBERT | — |
| 18802702 | Methods for Regulating Muscle Performance using Fat Specific Protein 27 (FSP27) Compositions | HELLMAN, KRISTINA M | — |
| 18650924 | Electrochemical UV Sensor Using Carbon Quantum Dots | WHITE, SADIE | — |
| 18227542 | SHAPE MEMORY POLY(ß-HYDROXYTHIOETHER) FOAMS RAPIDLY PRODUCED FROM MULTIFUNCTIONAL EPOXIDES AND THIOLS | BULLOCK, IN SUK C | — |
| 18247610 | POLYMER COMPOSITES COMPRISING CARBON SOURCE MATERIALS | OYER, ANDREW J | — |
| 17997051 | UPCYCLING OF POLYSTYRENE REINFORCED 3D PRINTABLE PHOTOPOLYMER NANOCOMPOSITES AND RING OPENING COPOLYMERIZATION | DESTEFANO, AUDRA JEAN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3663 | 1 |
| 1654 | 1 |
| 1721 | 1 |
| 1735 | 1 |
| 1772 | 1 |
| 1767 | 1 |
| 1766 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18902224 | MARINE SURFACE VESSEL TRAJECTORY TRACKING CONTROL | BREWER, JACK ROBERT | 3663 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 30, 2024 |
| 18802702 | Methods for Regulating Muscle Performance using Fat Specific Protein 27 (FSP27) Compositions | HELLMAN, KRISTINA M | 1654 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 13, 2024 |
| 18650924 | Electrochemical UV Sensor Using Carbon Quantum Dots | WHITE, SADIE | 1721 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 30, 2024 |
| 18536930 | MODULAR ELECTROCATALYTICAL PROCESSING FOR SIMULTANEOUS CONVERSION OF CARBON DIOXIDE AND WET SHALE GAS | WONG, EDNA | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 12, 2023 |
| 18536709 | ULTRACONDUCTIVE METAL COMPOSITE FORMS AND THE SYNTHESIS THEREOF | HEVEY, JOHN A | 1735 | §103 | Final Rejection | 128d overdue | AI Ready | Dec 12, 2023 |
| 18227542 | SHAPE MEMORY POLY(ß-HYDROXYTHIOETHER) FOAMS RAPIDLY PRODUCED FROM MULTIFUNCTIONAL EPOXIDES AND THIOLS | BULLOCK, IN SUK C | 1772 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 28, 2023 |
| 18247610 | POLYMER COMPOSITES COMPRISING CARBON SOURCE MATERIALS | OYER, ANDREW J | 1767 | §102§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 31, 2023 |
| 17997051 | UPCYCLING OF POLYSTYRENE REINFORCED 3D PRINTABLE PHOTOPOLYMER NANOCOMPOSITES AND RING OPENING COPOLYMERIZATION | DESTEFANO, AUDRA JEAN | 1766 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 25, 2022 |
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