Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Sabanci Universitesi Nanoteknoloji Arastirma Ve Uygulama Merkezi Sunum currently has 2 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are split between 2 distinct examiners, with PRASAD, NEIL R serving as the busiest examiner. This indicates that each examiner is responsible for a single pending matter.
The prosecution activity is contained within 1 distinct art unit. Despite having multiple examiners, the fact that they are both within the same art unit suggests a shared technical oversight for the company's Chemistry & Materials filings. The pending office actions represent the total active workload for this portfolio.
Practitioners should note that while the 2 pending office actions are in 1 distinct art unit, they must still account for the individual styles of different examiners. The busiest examiner, PRASAD, NEIL R, handles 1 of these actions. This structure requires a strategy that is consistent with the art unit's standards while being flexible enough for the examiners involved. The concentration within a single art unit may facilitate more uniform technical discussions across the pending matters.
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 | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PRASAD, NEIL R | 1 | 85.4% | +9.8% |
| BOYLE, ROBERT C | 1 | 69.7% | -2.7% |
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.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18713734 | INTEGRATED CIRCUIT SYSTEMS COOLED BY EMBEDDED MICROTUBES | PRASAD, NEIL R | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1764 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18713734 | INTEGRATED CIRCUIT SYSTEMS COOLED BY EMBEDDED MICROTUBES | PRASAD, NEIL R | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 28, 2024 |
| 18276455 | POLYMERIC HYBRID MATERIAL WITH PHOTOTHERMAL PROPERTIES AND PRODUCTION METHOD THEREOF | BOYLE, ROBERT C | 1764 | §103 | Final Rejection | 84d | Pending | Aug 09, 2023 |
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