Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Chemistry & Materials • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
4 pending office actions • 4 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Trinity College Dublin currently has 3 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are distributed among 3 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units, indicating a diverse range of technical focus. This level of dispersion is notable for a small number of cases, as it means every pending application is being reviewed in a different art unit by a different examiner. Such a broad distribution across 3 distinct art units suggests that the university's research and patenting efforts cover a variety of disparate technologies within the chemistry sector.
The busiest examiner is OMORI, MARY I, who holds 1 busiest examiner pending action. With 3 pending office actions and 3 distinct examiners, the workload is split, with each examiner managing one action. This structure minimizes the impact of any single examiner on the overall portfolio. However, it also requires the university to manage 3 distinct prosecution tracks simultaneously, each with its own set of art unit trends and examiner preferences. The lack of overlap among the 3 distinct examiners means that success in one case may not necessarily provide a roadmap for the others, necessitating a tailored approach for each application.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 (50%) |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| OMORI, MARY I | 1 | 50.9% | +57.3% |
| GOURLIE, LAURA ELOISE | 1 | 64.4% | +38.8% |
| POLLOCK, AUSTIN M | 1 | 51.3% | +36.1% |
| WEHBE, ANNE MARIE SABRINA | 1 | 57.2% | +43.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17797684 | POLE PIECE FOR A TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPE | GOURLIE, LAURA ELOISE | 91d overdue |
| 18840433 | RECYCLABLE METAL COMPOSITE SHEETS, THEIR USES, AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURE | OMORI, MARY I | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17797684 | POLE PIECE FOR A TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPE | GOURLIE, LAURA ELOISE | 91d overdue |
| 17429838 | A PRODUCT AND METHOD FOR POWDER FEEDING IN POWDER BED 3D PRINTERS | POLLOCK, AUSTIN M | 66d overdue |
| 16264095 | AAV-BASED GENE THERAPY FOR GLAUCOMA | WEHBE, ANNE MARIE SABRINA | 3d overdue |
| 18840433 | RECYCLABLE METAL COMPOSITE SHEETS, THEIR USES, AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURE | OMORI, MARY I | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1784 | 1 |
| 2881 | 1 |
| 1738 | 1 |
| 1634 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18840433 | RECYCLABLE METAL COMPOSITE SHEETS, THEIR USES, AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURE | OMORI, MARY I | 1784 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 21, 2024 |
| 17797684 | POLE PIECE FOR A TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPE | GOURLIE, LAURA ELOISE | 2881 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 91d overdue | Pending | Aug 04, 2022 |
| 17429838 | A PRODUCT AND METHOD FOR POWDER FEEDING IN POWDER BED 3D PRINTERS | POLLOCK, AUSTIN M | 1738 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 66d overdue | Pending | Aug 10, 2021 |
| 16264095 | AAV-BASED GENE THERAPY FOR GLAUCOMA | WEHBE, ANNE MARIE SABRINA | 1634 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 3d overdue | Pending | Jan 31, 2019 |
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