Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Swansea University is currently overseeing 2 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are split between 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units, indicating that each pending matter is being handled independently within the patent office. The busiest examiner, MUI, CHRISTINE T, is assigned 1 pending office action. Because the total number of pending actions is 2 and there are 2 examiners, the workload is distributed with 1 action per examiner.
The involvement of 2 distinct art units for 2 pending actions suggests that the university's research in Chemistry & Materials covers different specialized classifications. This structure requires the university to manage 2 separate prosecution tracks, each with its own examiner and administrative unit. Such a decentralized approach means that the outcome of 1 pending action is unlikely to directly influence the other. Practitioners can benefit from this variety, as it provides multiple points of engagement with the patent office for their current chemical and materials filings.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MUI, CHRISTINE T | 1 | 78.4% | +19.8% |
| JOHNSON, NICOLE F | 1 | 87.4% | +7.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17058385 | WEARABLE APPARATUS FOR SENSING STRESS AND METHOD OF USE THEREOF | JOHNSON, NICOLE F | — |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18286537 | PARTICLE SEPARATION SYSTEMS AND METHODS | MUI, CHRISTINE T | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1797 | 1 |
| 3700 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18286537 | PARTICLE SEPARATION SYSTEMS AND METHODS | MUI, CHRISTINE T | 1797 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 11, 2023 |
| 17058385 | WEARABLE APPARATUS FOR SENSING STRESS AND METHOD OF USE THEREOF | JOHNSON, NICOLE F | 3700 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 24, 2020 |
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Start Free TrialSwansea University has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Christine T Mui has the most, with 1 of Swansea University's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
