Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days
The Trustees of Boston College have 3 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are managed by 3 distinct examiners across 2 distinct art units. The use of 2 distinct art units for 3 pending office actions indicates that the college's chemical research is being evaluated by multiple specialized groups within the office. This distribution suggests a variety of technical focuses within the Chemistry & Materials sector for the 3 pending office actions.
Thomas T. Pham is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, handling 1 pending office action. This single action is 1 of the 3 pending office actions currently active. Because each of the 3 distinct examiners is responsible for exactly 1 pending office action, the workload is evenly distributed. No single examiner manages more than the 1 busiest examiner pending action currently assigned to Thomas T. Pham, ensuring a broad distribution of review across the 3 distinct examiners.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 2 (67%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PHAM, THOMAS T | 1 | 51.4% | +15.7% |
| MINCHELLA, KAITLYN L | 1 | 26.7% | +21.8% |
| WARTALOWICZ, PAUL A | 1 | 64.4% | +18.8% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17872833 | ENHANCEMENT OF SUPERCONDUCTIVITY VIA RESONANT ANTI-SHIELDING | WARTALOWICZ, PAUL A | 28d |
| 18575477 | METHODS OF FABRICATING A MULTIANALYTE DETECTION DEVICE AND DEVICES THEREOF | PHAM, THOMAS T | — |
| 18311385 | Artificial selection approach for improving secondary microbial functions using a partner organism | MINCHELLA, KAITLYN L | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17872833 | ENHANCEMENT OF SUPERCONDUCTIVITY VIA RESONANT ANTI-SHIELDING | WARTALOWICZ, PAUL A | 28d |
| 18575477 | METHODS OF FABRICATING A MULTIANALYTE DETECTION DEVICE AND DEVICES THEREOF | PHAM, THOMAS T | — |
| 18311385 | Artificial selection approach for improving secondary microbial functions using a partner organism | MINCHELLA, KAITLYN L | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1713 | 1 |
| 1735 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18575477 | METHODS OF FABRICATING A MULTIANALYTE DETECTION DEVICE AND DEVICES THEREOF | PHAM, THOMAS T | 1713 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 29, 2023 |
| 18311385 | Artificial selection approach for improving secondary microbial functions using a partner organism | MINCHELLA, KAITLYN L | — | §101§102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 03, 2023 |
| 17872833 | ENHANCEMENT OF SUPERCONDUCTIVITY VIA RESONANT ANTI-SHIELDING | WARTALOWICZ, PAUL A | 1735 | §101§103§112 | Final Rejection | 28d | Pending | Jul 25, 2022 |
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