Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
8 pending office actions • 7 art units • 8 examiners • 0 of 8 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 10 patents granted in the last 365 days
Research Triangle Institute currently manages 8 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are spread across 8 distinct examiners and 7 distinct art units. This distribution represents a decentralized prosecution environment, where nearly every pending matter is being handled by a different individual in a different administrative unit.
The busiest examiner, UNDERWOOD, JARREAS C, is responsible for 1 pending office action. Since there are 8 distinct examiners for 8 pending actions, no single examiner holds more than one matter. This one-to-one ratio between examiners and actions means that the institute's prosecution experience is fragmented across a wide array of USPTO personnel.
The involvement of 7 distinct art units further emphasizes the technical diversity of the 8 pending office actions. Practitioners must manage these 8 matters with the understanding that they are being reviewed in 7 different specialized environments. This lack of concentration makes it difficult to predict overall portfolio trends based on the actions of any single examiner or art unit.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 only | 1 (12%) |
| §101 + other | 1 (12%) |
| §103 only | 3 (38%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (38%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| UNDERWOOD, JARREAS C | 1 | 79.2% | +21.7% |
| SAAVEDRA, EMILIO J | 1 | 69.2% | +26.4% |
| VALENCIA, JUAN C | 1 | 86.5% | +7.7% |
| CHU, YONG LIANG | 1 | 74.9% | +3.1% |
| WESTERBERG, NISSA M | 1 | 23.4% | +37.1% |
| NASSIRI MOTLAGH, ANITA | 1 | 55.9% | +24.6% |
| SIMKINS, SLONE ELIZABETH | 1 | 54.3% | +50.0% |
| FEDORKY, MEGAN TAYLOR | 1 | 27.8% | +40.4% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18433523 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND DEVICES FOR AUTOMATED PERSONALIZED CONTROL OF BUILDING SYSTEMS | SAAVEDRA, EMILIO J | 12d |
| 17798188 | Design, Fabrication, and Characterization of Nanoplastics and Microplastics | NASSIRI MOTLAGH, ANITA | 61d |
| 18225191 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR PRODUCTION OF HYDROGEN | VALENCIA, JUAN C | — |
| 18020687 | SPRAY-DRIED METAL-ORGANIC FRAMEWORKS FOR TREATMENT AND/OR DIAGNOSIS OF PULMONARY DISEASE | WESTERBERG, NISSA M | — |
| 17236266 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND DEVICES FOR DETERMINING MILD TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURIES | FEDORKY, MEGAN TAYLOR | — |
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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18631969 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DETECTION OF PARTICLES USING A LINE LASER | UNDERWOOD, JARREAS C | 50d overdue |
| 18433523 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND DEVICES FOR AUTOMATED PERSONALIZED CONTROL OF BUILDING SYSTEMS | SAAVEDRA, EMILIO J | 12d |
| 17798188 | Design, Fabrication, and Characterization of Nanoplastics and Microplastics | NASSIRI MOTLAGH, ANITA | 61d |
| 18020687 | SPRAY-DRIED METAL-ORGANIC FRAMEWORKS FOR TREATMENT AND/OR DIAGNOSIS OF PULMONARY DISEASE | WESTERBERG, NISSA M | — |
| 17759654 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR REDUCING THE CONCENTRATION OF AMINE IN WASH LIQUID USED IN INDUSTRIAL PROCESSING | SIMKINS, SLONE ELIZABETH | — |
| 17236266 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND DEVICES FOR DETERMINING MILD TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURIES | FEDORKY, MEGAN TAYLOR | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2877 | 1 |
| 2117 | 1 |
| 1731 | 1 |
| 1618 | 1 |
| 1734 | 1 |
| 1735 | 1 |
| 3796 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18631969 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DETECTION OF PARTICLES USING A LINE LASER | UNDERWOOD, JARREAS C | 2877 | §103 | Final Rejection | 50d overdue | Pending | Apr 10, 2024 |
| 18433523 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND DEVICES FOR AUTOMATED PERSONALIZED CONTROL OF BUILDING SYSTEMS | SAAVEDRA, EMILIO J | 2117 | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | 12d | Pending | Feb 06, 2024 |
| 18225191 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR PRODUCTION OF HYDROGEN | VALENCIA, JUAN C | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 24, 2023 |
| 18271277 | METHOD TO CONTROL SYNGAS COMPOSITION FROM AN ENGINE-BASED SYNGAS GENERATOR | CHU, YONG LIANG | 1731 | §103 | Final Rejection | 60d overdue | Pending | Jul 07, 2023 |
| 18020687 | SPRAY-DRIED METAL-ORGANIC FRAMEWORKS FOR TREATMENT AND/OR DIAGNOSIS OF PULMONARY DISEASE | WESTERBERG, NISSA M | 1618 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 10, 2023 |
| 17798188 | Design, Fabrication, and Characterization of Nanoplastics and Microplastics | NASSIRI MOTLAGH, ANITA | 1734 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 61d | Pending | Aug 08, 2022 |
| 17759654 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR REDUCING THE CONCENTRATION OF AMINE IN WASH LIQUID USED IN INDUSTRIAL PROCESSING | SIMKINS, SLONE ELIZABETH | 1735 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 28, 2022 |
| 17236266 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND DEVICES FOR DETERMINING MILD TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURIES | FEDORKY, MEGAN TAYLOR | 3796 | §101 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 21, 2021 |
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