Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Networking & Security
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 Court of Edinburgh Napier University has 2 pending office actions in its company patent portfolio. The portfolio is focused on the Networking & Security technology area. These 2 actions are assigned to 2 distinct examiners across 2 distinct art units. The busiest examiner, MARTINEZ, TOMMY NMN, is responsible for 1 pending action. This indicates that the university's current prosecution workload is evenly split between 2 different examiners and 2 different specialized units at the patent office.
With 2 pending office actions and 2 distinct examiners, each matter is being handled independently. The involvement of 2 distinct art units suggests that the university's work in Networking & Security spans multiple technical sub-fields. Practitioners should be prepared to manage 2 separate examination tracks, as the busiest examiner pending count of 1 shows that no single examiner is overseeing both actions. This distribution across 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units requires a specific strategy for each of the 2 pending office actions to address the unique requirements of each examiner and unit.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MARTINEZ, TOMMY NMN | 1 | 9.1% | -11.1% |
| BERRIOS, JENNIFER A | 1 | 37.0% | +49.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17915925 | SODIUM BUTYRATE FOR USE IN THE PREVENTION OR TREATMENT OF RHINOVIRUS INFECTION | BERRIOS, JENNIFER A | 97d overdue |
| 18282488 | DETECTION OF RANSOMWARE | MARTINEZ, TOMMY NMN | 65d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17915925 | SODIUM BUTYRATE FOR USE IN THE PREVENTION OR TREATMENT OF RHINOVIRUS INFECTION | BERRIOS, JENNIFER A | 97d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2496 | 1 |
| 1613 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18282488 | DETECTION OF RANSOMWARE | MARTINEZ, TOMMY NMN | 2496 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 65d | Pending | Sep 15, 2023 |
| 17915925 | SODIUM BUTYRATE FOR USE IN THE PREVENTION OR TREATMENT OF RHINOVIRUS INFECTION | BERRIOS, JENNIFER A | 1613 | §101§103§112 | Final Rejection | 97d overdue | Pending | Sep 29, 2022 |
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