Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
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 • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
The Board Of Trustees Of The University Of Lllinois has 2 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These matters are handled by 2 distinct examiners across 2 distinct art units, showing a spread of technical review for the university's current filings. This distribution indicates that the pending applications likely cover different chemical or material science sub-specialties within the broader technology area. By engaging with 2 distinct art units, the university can pursue diverse technical disclosures simultaneously.
GAMBLE JR, RANDALL LEE is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending office action. Because the 2 pending office actions are divided between 2 distinct examiners, no single examiner dominates the current prosecution landscape. Success for these applications will depend on meeting the specific requirements of two different art units. Practitioners should tailor their responses to the individual tendencies of the 2 distinct examiners involved to optimize the chances of allowance. Monitoring the progress of both matters will be essential to ensure a consistent strategy across the university's Chemistry & Materials portfolio.
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 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GAMBLE JR, RANDALL LEE | 1 | 51.4% | +27.6% |
| WITTLIFF, KATERINA ANNA | 1 | 35.0% | +18.8% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17800461 | ULTRASENSITIVE BIOSENSOR USING BENT AND CURVED FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTOR BY DEBYE LENGTH MODULATION | GAMBLE JR, RANDALL LEE | 22d 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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17800461 | ULTRASENSITIVE BIOSENSOR USING BENT AND CURVED FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTOR BY DEBYE LENGTH MODULATION | GAMBLE JR, RANDALL LEE | 22d overdue |
| 17621803 | MICROPLASMA INTEGRATED ARRAY OTOSCOPE SPECULUM AND EAR TREATMENT METHODS | WITTLIFF, KATERINA ANNA | 27d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1795 | 1 |
| 3783 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17800461 | ULTRASENSITIVE BIOSENSOR USING BENT AND CURVED FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTOR BY DEBYE LENGTH MODULATION | GAMBLE JR, RANDALL LEE | 1795 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 22d overdue | Pending | Aug 17, 2022 |
| 17621803 | MICROPLASMA INTEGRATED ARRAY OTOSCOPE SPECULUM AND EAR TREATMENT METHODS | WITTLIFF, KATERINA ANNA | 3783 | §103 | Final Rejection | 27d | Pending | Dec 22, 2021 |
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