Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Chemistry & Materials • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
4 pending office actions • 3 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Technische Universität Darmstadt has 4 pending office actions in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These 4 pending office actions are handled by 4 distinct examiners, indicating that each pending matter is under the review of a different official. This distribution means that the university cannot rely on 1 examiner perspective to guide its overall prosecution strategy for the 4 pending office actions.
The portfolio is distributed across 3 distinct art units. CARIB A OQUENDO is the busiest examiner for the university, currently responsible for 1 pending office action. This distribution shows that while the technical focus is within 1 technology area, the university must navigate the preferences of 4 distinct examiners across 3 distinct art units. For practitioners, this requires a strategy that balances the standards of the 3 distinct art units with the individual styles of the 4 distinct examiners, as the 4 pending office actions do not share an examiner.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 | 1 (25%) |
| §112 only | 1 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| OQUENDO, CARIB A | 1 | 77.9% | +12.4% |
| PARVEZ, AZM A | 1 | 78.4% | +27.0% |
| ROBINSON, HOPE A | 1 | 67.7% | +43.1% |
| CORALLO, CATRIONA MARY | 1 | 67.0% | +12.9% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17921454 | CARRIER-FREE OXYGEN REDUCTION CATALYST FOR USE IN LOW-TEMPERATURE FUEL CELLS AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME | CORALLO, CATRIONA MARY | 45d overdue |
| 18455078 | Arrangement of carbon nanotubes and a method for manufacturing the arrangement | PARVEZ, AZM A | 31d overdue |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17921454 | CARRIER-FREE OXYGEN REDUCTION CATALYST FOR USE IN LOW-TEMPERATURE FUEL CELLS AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME | CORALLO, CATRIONA MARY | 45d overdue |
| 18455078 | Arrangement of carbon nanotubes and a method for manufacturing the arrangement | PARVEZ, AZM A | 31d overdue |
| 19089294 | Method for constructing a pipeline portion of a pipe system, and pipeline portion of a pipe system in a heating network | OQUENDO, CARIB A | — |
| 18326099 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR DETECTING TRANSGLUTAMINASES | ROBINSON, HOPE A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2892 | 1 |
| 1652 | 1 |
| 1732 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19089294 | Method for constructing a pipeline portion of a pipe system, and pipeline portion of a pipe system in a heating network | OQUENDO, CARIB A | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 25, 2025 |
| 18455078 | Arrangement of carbon nanotubes and a method for manufacturing the arrangement | PARVEZ, AZM A | 2892 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 31d overdue | Pending | Aug 24, 2023 |
| 18326099 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR DETECTING TRANSGLUTAMINASES | ROBINSON, HOPE A | 1652 | §112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 31, 2023 |
| 17921454 | CARRIER-FREE OXYGEN REDUCTION CATALYST FOR USE IN LOW-TEMPERATURE FUEL CELLS AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME | CORALLO, CATRIONA MARY | 1732 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 45d overdue | Pending | Oct 26, 2022 |
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