Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
Oxford Instruments Nanotechnology Tools Limited has 3 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are distributed among 3 distinct examiners, indicating that each pending matter is being reviewed by a different individual.
The prosecution activity spans 2 distinct art units, suggesting some technical variety within the Chemistry & Materials filings. HERNANDEZ-KENNEY, JOSE is the busiest examiner, though they are responsible for only 1 busiest examiner pending action. This indicates that the 3 pending office actions are distributed across the 3 distinct examiners.
The use of 2 distinct art units for the current workload shows that the company's Chemistry & Materials portfolio is being examined across multiple specialized groups at the patent office. With 3 distinct examiners involved, the company must manage multiple simultaneous dialogues during prosecution.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (33%) |
| §112 only | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HERNANDEZ-KENNEY, JOSE | 1 | 54.6% | +22.8% |
| DINH, LYNDA | 1 | 73.9% | +28.5% |
| DO, AN H | 1 | 90.5% | +7.0% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18719983 | METHODS OF DEPOSITING MATERIALS ONTO 2-DIMENSIONAL LAYERED MATERIALS | HERNANDEZ-KENNEY, JOSE | 62d |
| 18713247 | METHOD FOR DISLOCATION ANALYSIS | DINH, LYNDA | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18719983 | METHODS OF DEPOSITING MATERIALS ONTO 2-DIMENSIONAL LAYERED MATERIALS | HERNANDEZ-KENNEY, JOSE | 62d |
| 18713247 | METHOD FOR DISLOCATION ANALYSIS | DINH, LYNDA | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1717 | 1 |
| 2853 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18719983 | METHODS OF DEPOSITING MATERIALS ONTO 2-DIMENSIONAL LAYERED MATERIALS | HERNANDEZ-KENNEY, JOSE | 1717 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 62d | Pending | Jun 14, 2024 |
| 18713247 | METHOD FOR DISLOCATION ANALYSIS | DINH, LYNDA | — | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 24, 2024 |
| 18205878 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR INDEXING ELECTRON DIFFRACTION PATTERNS | DO, AN H | 2853 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 05, 2023 |
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