Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
The South Dakota Board Of Regents AS Governing Board For South Dakota State University has 1 pending office action in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This action is assigned to 1 distinct art unit, indicating a concentrated technical focus for the current portfolio. The prosecution is being reviewed by a distinct examiner, ensuring that the matter receives dedicated attention. This centralized structure suggests that the entity is prioritizing a specific technical advancement within its chemistry portfolio.
MUKHOPADHYAY, BHASKAR is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, managing the pending office action. With only a specific examiner and 1 distinct art unit involved, the prosecution strategy is highly focused. This allows the entity to address the 1 pending office action with a specific approach tailored to the requirements of the Chemistry & Materials sector. Practitioners should leverage this concentrated profile to build a consistent and persuasive record with the assigned examiner to facilitate a favorable outcome.
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 (100%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MUKHOPADHYAY, BHASKAR | 1 | 28.2% | +37.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18608400 | Microbial-Based Process for high Quality Protein Concentrate | MUKHOPADHYAY, BHASKAR | 54d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18608400 | Microbial-Based Process for high Quality Protein Concentrate | MUKHOPADHYAY, BHASKAR | 54d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1792 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18608400 | Microbial-Based Process for high Quality Protein Concentrate | MUKHOPADHYAY, BHASKAR | 1792 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 54d | Pending | Mar 18, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialThe South Dakota Board Of Regents AS Governing Board For South Dakota State University has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Bhaskar Mukhopadhyay has the most, with 1 of The South Dakota Board Of Regents AS Governing Board For South Dakota State University's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.