Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
5 pending office actions • 5 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 10 patents granted in the last 365 days
Research Foundation of the City University of New York has 5 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are distributed among 5 distinct examiners and a matching number of distinct art units. This direct ratio across actions, examiners, and art units indicates that every pending matter is being reviewed in a completely different administrative and technical environment, requiring a highly adaptable prosecution strategy.
The busiest examiner for the foundation is Kowalkowski, Fiona Margaret, who is overseeing 1 pending office action. This examiner is responsible for a single portion of the 5 pending office actions currently active for the institution. The high number of distinct art units suggests a broad range of chemical and material research being prosecuted simultaneously, with no overlap in the assigned examiners. This level of distribution ensures that the foundation's patent applications are evaluated independently, minimizing the impact that any single examiner's review style might have on the overall portfolio.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 | 4 (80%) |
| §112 only | 1 (20%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KOWALKOWSKI, FIONA MARGARET | 1 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
| WONG, TINA MEI SENG | 1 | 84.2% | +14.5% |
| GATEWOOD, DANIEL S | 1 | 78.0% | +18.3% |
| HILTON, ALBERT MICHAEL | 1 | 63.4% | +41.8% |
| CHOI, EVERETT TIMOTHY | 1 | 10.0% | -13.3% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18350538 | UNIVERSAL LINEAR OPTICAL DEVICE | WONG, TINA MEI SENG | 43d overdue |
| 18955575 | WEARABLE DISPOSABLE ELECTROTHERAPY DEVICE | KOWALKOWSKI, FIONA MARGARET | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17772577 | MITIGATING THE ZINCATE EFFECT IN ENERGY DENSE MANGANESE DIOXIDE ELECTRODES | CHOI, EVERETT TIMOTHY | 8d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18350538 | UNIVERSAL LINEAR OPTICAL DEVICE | WONG, TINA MEI SENG | 43d overdue |
| 18035213 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR UTILIZING INTERCALATION ZINC OXIDE WITH AN ELECTRODE | GATEWOOD, DANIEL S | — |
| 17788822 | BATTERY FOR ACHIEVING HIGH CYCLE LIFE AND ZINC UTILIZATION IN SECONDARY ZINC ANODES USING ELECTROCOAGULANTS | HILTON, ALBERT MICHAEL | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3792 | 1 |
| 2874 | 1 |
| 1729 | 1 |
| 1723 | 1 |
| 1751 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18955575 | WEARABLE DISPOSABLE ELECTROTHERAPY DEVICE | KOWALKOWSKI, FIONA MARGARET | 3792 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 21, 2024 |
| 18350538 | UNIVERSAL LINEAR OPTICAL DEVICE | WONG, TINA MEI SENG | 2874 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 43d overdue | Pending | Jul 11, 2023 |
| 18035213 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR UTILIZING INTERCALATION ZINC OXIDE WITH AN ELECTRODE | GATEWOOD, DANIEL S | 1729 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 03, 2023 |
| 17788822 | BATTERY FOR ACHIEVING HIGH CYCLE LIFE AND ZINC UTILIZATION IN SECONDARY ZINC ANODES USING ELECTROCOAGULANTS | HILTON, ALBERT MICHAEL | 1723 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 24, 2022 |
| 17772577 | MITIGATING THE ZINCATE EFFECT IN ENERGY DENSE MANGANESE DIOXIDE ELECTRODES | CHOI, EVERETT TIMOTHY | 1751 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 8d | Pending | Apr 28, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialResearch Foundation of the City University of New York has 5 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 5 art units and 5 examiners.
Fiona Margaret Kowalkowski has the most, with 1 of Research Foundation of the City University of New York's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
