Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 7 patents granted in the last 365 days
Shinshu University is managing 1 pending office action in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This action is being handled by a distinct examiner, FIGUEROA, JOHN J, within 1 distinct art unit. As the busiest examiner for the portfolio, FIGUEROA, JOHN J is responsible for the 1 pending office action.
The presence of only a single pending office action suggests a focused prosecution effort within the Chemistry & Materials sector. Because the workload is limited to a single examiner and a single art unit, the university's immediate patent outcomes depend on the specific interpretation of FIGUEROA, JOHN J. This lack of diversification across examiners means that there are no internal benchmarks to compare examiner behavior for this portfolio.
For practitioners, the pending office action represents the total current activity for the university at the patent office. The 1 distinct art unit involved will provide the regulatory context for the examination. Since FIGUEROA, JOHN J is the only examiner with a pending office action, their past decisions in Chemistry & Materials will be the most relevant indicator for future results.
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 |
|---|---|
| §102 only | 1 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FIGUEROA, JOHN J | 1 | 83.2% | +8.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18287303 | Tantalum Nitride Doped With One Or More Metals, A Catalyst, Methods For Water Splitting Using The Catalyst, And Methods To Make Same | FIGUEROA, JOHN J | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1763 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18287303 | Tantalum Nitride Doped With One Or More Metals, A Catalyst, Methods For Water Splitting Using The Catalyst, And Methods To Make Same | FIGUEROA, JOHN J | 1763 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 18, 2023 |
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