Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
The Regents of the University of Colorado currently manages 2 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are distributed across 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units, showing a diversified prosecution landscape. FRASER, STEWART A is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently managing 1 pending office action.
The presence of 2 distinct art units indicates that the university's active applications span multiple specialized examination groups. Since the 2 pending office actions are split among 2 distinct examiners, each examiner is responsible for a portion of the workload. FRASER, STEWART A accounts for 1 busiest examiner pending action, leaving the remaining action to the other identified examiner. This distribution requires practitioners to adapt to the specific tendencies of the different examiners across the identified art units. Managing these examiners simultaneously necessitates a coordinated strategy to address the unique requirements of each pending office action.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FRASER, STEWART A | 1 | 85.9% | +14.5% |
| CLOUSER, BENJAMIN WADE | 1 | 51.7% | +39.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18517882 | LITHIUM ALL-SOLID-STATE BATTERY | FRASER, STEWART A | 23d 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18517882 | LITHIUM ALL-SOLID-STATE BATTERY | FRASER, STEWART A | 23d overdue |
| 17359492 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGING METHOD | CLOUSER, BENJAMIN WADE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1724 | 1 |
| 3645 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18517882 | LITHIUM ALL-SOLID-STATE BATTERY | FRASER, STEWART A | 1724 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 23d overdue | Pending | Nov 22, 2023 |
| 17359492 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGING METHOD | CLOUSER, BENJAMIN WADE | 3645 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 25, 2021 |
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