Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
3 pending office actions • 1 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
Qingdao Agricultural University currently has 3 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are distributed among 3 distinct examiners, yet all matters are housed within 1 distinct art unit. This concentration in a single art unit suggests that while different individuals are reviewing the applications, the technical focus of the university's filings is consistent.
The busiest examiner for the university is POHNERT, STEVEN C, who is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Given the total volume of active cases, each of the 3 distinct examiners is likely handling exactly one matter. This distribution prevents any single examiner from having a dominant role in the university's overall prosecution outcomes.
The fact that all active matters are within 1 distinct art unit is a significant data point for practitioners. It indicates that the university's intellectual property in the Chemistry & Materials area is being evaluated against a consistent set of internal guidelines and prior art databases used by that specific unit. This allows for a more unified strategy when addressing the 3 distinct examiners, as they are all operating within the same administrative and technical framework.
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 | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (67%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| POHNERT, STEVEN C | 1 | 12.4% | +18.5% |
| GRABER, JAMES J | 1 | 46.7% | +57.7% |
| BERKELEY, EMILY R | 1 | 75.7% | +28.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18755125 | USE OF SGPL1 IN BREEDING OF SHANDONG BLACK CATTLE | POHNERT, STEVEN C | — |
| 18732209 | USE OF miR-34b IN REGULATING LIPID METABOLISM OF SHANDONG BLACK CATTLE | GRABER, JAMES J | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18136348 | WHITE NANOZYME TEST STRIP AND ITS PREPARATION METHOD AND APPLICATION | BERKELEY, EMILY R | 16d overdue |
| 18755125 | USE OF SGPL1 IN BREEDING OF SHANDONG BLACK CATTLE | POHNERT, STEVEN C | — |
| 18732209 | USE OF miR-34b IN REGULATING LIPID METABOLISM OF SHANDONG BLACK CATTLE | GRABER, JAMES J | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1796 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18755125 | USE OF SGPL1 IN BREEDING OF SHANDONG BLACK CATTLE | POHNERT, STEVEN C | — | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 26, 2024 |
| 18732209 | USE OF miR-34b IN REGULATING LIPID METABOLISM OF SHANDONG BLACK CATTLE | GRABER, JAMES J | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 03, 2024 |
| 18136348 | WHITE NANOZYME TEST STRIP AND ITS PREPARATION METHOD AND APPLICATION | BERKELEY, EMILY R | 1796 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 16d overdue | Pending | Apr 19, 2023 |
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