Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
4 pending office actions • 4 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Oulun Yliopisto is currently addressing 4 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are spread across 4 distinct examiners. This degree of distribution indicates that each pending application is being reviewed by a different individual examiner. The portfolio also involves distinct art units for each matter, reflecting a broad technical range within the chemistry sector. This structure ensures that the company's overall prosecution success is not tied to the specific tendencies of any single examiner.
Bareford, Katherine A is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, managing 1 pending office action. With 4 pending actions and four distinct examiners, each examiner is responsible for exactly one action. This structure requires the company to navigate four completely separate prosecution tracks, each with its own specific art unit standards and examiner preferences. Practitioners should monitor the distinct approaches of these examiners to identify any variations in prosecution style across the different technical groups.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BAREFORD, KATHERINE A | 1 | 13.8% | +28.4% |
| SABOKTAKIN, MARJAN | 1 | 58.7% | +14.3% |
| HOBAN, MATTHEW E | 1 | 60.4% | +25.3% |
| BAGHDASARYAN, HOVHANNES | 1 | 77.6% | +16.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17189842 | Range imaging apparatus and method of performing range imaging | BAGHDASARYAN, HOVHANNES | 5d |
| 18688129 | IMPREGNATION OF CERAMIC COMPOSITE MATERIAL | BAREFORD, KATHERINE A | — |
| 18547440 | APPARATUS FOR AND METHOD OF MEASURING INTRACRANIAL DYNAMICS | SABOKTAKIN, MARJAN | — |
| 18257866 | MANUFACTURING COMPOSITE ELECTROCERAMICS USING WASTE ELECTROCERAMICS | HOBAN, MATTHEW E | — |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17189842 | Range imaging apparatus and method of performing range imaging | BAGHDASARYAN, HOVHANNES | 5d |
| 18688129 | IMPREGNATION OF CERAMIC COMPOSITE MATERIAL | BAREFORD, KATHERINE A | — |
| 18547440 | APPARATUS FOR AND METHOD OF MEASURING INTRACRANIAL DYNAMICS | SABOKTAKIN, MARJAN | — |
| 18257866 | MANUFACTURING COMPOSITE ELECTROCERAMICS USING WASTE ELECTROCERAMICS | HOBAN, MATTHEW E | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1718 | 1 |
| 3797 | 1 |
| 1734 | 1 |
| 3645 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18688129 | IMPREGNATION OF CERAMIC COMPOSITE MATERIAL | BAREFORD, KATHERINE A | 1718 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 29, 2024 |
| 18547440 | APPARATUS FOR AND METHOD OF MEASURING INTRACRANIAL DYNAMICS | SABOKTAKIN, MARJAN | 3797 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 22, 2023 |
| 18257866 | MANUFACTURING COMPOSITE ELECTROCERAMICS USING WASTE ELECTROCERAMICS | HOBAN, MATTHEW E | 1734 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 15, 2023 |
| 17189842 | Range imaging apparatus and method of performing range imaging | BAGHDASARYAN, HOVHANNES | 3645 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 5d | Pending | Mar 02, 2021 |
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