Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Chemistry & Materials
4 pending office actions • 3 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 8 patents granted in the last 365 days
Technische Universität Berlin currently manages 4 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are spread across 4 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units. This indicates that while every pending action is handled by a different examiner, some of those examiners are working within the same art unit.
The busiest examiner, HOANG, MICHAEL H, is assigned 1 pending office action. With a total of 4 pending office actions, the workload is distributed such that no single examiner handles multiple pending matters. The use of 3 distinct art units shows a relatively concentrated technical focus within the broader Chemistry & Materials field. This distribution suggests that the university is engaging with multiple specialized groups, though the workload remains balanced across the 4 distinct examiners involved in the process. HOANG, MICHAEL H represents 1 of the multiple points of contact for this portfolio.
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 | 1 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (75%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HOANG, MICHAEL H | 1 | 54.8% | +23.1% |
| KARST, DAVID THOMAS | 1 | 64.7% | +9.8% |
| SPENCE, JENNIFER SUZANNE | 1 | 66.9% | +46.0% |
| SHELLHAMMER, JAMES PAUL | 1 | 10.0% | +18.8% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18778058 | QUANTUM COMPILING | HOANG, MICHAEL H | — |
| 18276240 | PROCESS FOR MODIFYING AN AROMATIC POLYETHER BACKBONE AND A MODIFIED POLYETHER OBTAINED BY THIS PROCESS | KARST, DAVID THOMAS | — |
| 17800101 | APPLICATION OF PUNICALAGIN/ELLAGIC ACID TO IMPROVE OXIDATIVE AND COLLOIDAL STABILITY OF BEVERAGES (ESP. BEER) | SHELLHAMMER, JAMES PAUL | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18778058 | QUANTUM COMPILING | HOANG, MICHAEL H | — |
| 18196538 | MIR-375- AND MIR-1-REGULATED COXSACKIEVIRUS B3 HAS NO PANCREAS AND HEART TOXICITY BUT STRONG ANTITUMOR EFFICIENCY IN COLORECTAL CARCINOMAS | SPENCE, JENNIFER SUZANNE | — |
| 17800101 | APPLICATION OF PUNICALAGIN/ELLAGIC ACID TO IMPROVE OXIDATIVE AND COLLOIDAL STABILITY OF BEVERAGES (ESP. BEER) | SHELLHAMMER, JAMES PAUL | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1767 | 1 |
| 1633 | 1 |
| 1793 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18778058 | QUANTUM COMPILING | HOANG, MICHAEL H | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 19, 2024 |
| 18276240 | PROCESS FOR MODIFYING AN AROMATIC POLYETHER BACKBONE AND A MODIFIED POLYETHER OBTAINED BY THIS PROCESS | KARST, DAVID THOMAS | 1767 | §102§103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 07, 2023 |
| 18196538 | MIR-375- AND MIR-1-REGULATED COXSACKIEVIRUS B3 HAS NO PANCREAS AND HEART TOXICITY BUT STRONG ANTITUMOR EFFICIENCY IN COLORECTAL CARCINOMAS | SPENCE, JENNIFER SUZANNE | 1633 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 12, 2023 |
| 17800101 | APPLICATION OF PUNICALAGIN/ELLAGIC ACID TO IMPROVE OXIDATIVE AND COLLOIDAL STABILITY OF BEVERAGES (ESP. BEER) | SHELLHAMMER, JAMES PAUL | 1793 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 16, 2022 |
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