Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
The University Of Newcastle currently maintains 3 pending office actions within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These actions are distributed across 3 distinct examiners, indicating a range of scrutiny for the university's intellectual property. Despite this distribution, the workload is concentrated within 2 distinct art units, suggesting that while different individuals are reviewing the applications, the technical subject matter remains clustered.
Examiner HERNANDEZ, JACKSON J is identified as the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently overseeing 1 pending office action. Because the 3 distinct examiners are handling the 3 pending office actions, the university faces multiple examiner perspectives. This requires a prosecution strategy that can adapt to the specific preferences of multiple examiners while navigating the standards of the 2 involved art units.
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 (33%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (33%) |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HERNANDEZ, JACKSON J | 1 | 51.4% | +45.0% |
| DEUBLE, MARK A | 1 | 88.2% | +8.2% |
| BREEN, KIMBERLY CATHERINE | 1 | 23.8% | +56.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17767210 | METHOD FOR COVALENT IMMOBILIZATION OF MOLECULAR COMPOUNDS | BREEN, KIMBERLY CATHERINE | 66d overdue |
| 18546101 | Moisture Reducing Roller Conveyor System and Method | DEUBLE, MARK A | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17767210 | METHOD FOR COVALENT IMMOBILIZATION OF MOLECULAR COMPOUNDS | BREEN, KIMBERLY CATHERINE | 66d overdue |
| 18784201 | METHODS OF TREATING ESTROGEN SENSITIVE DISEASES WITH CANNABIS EXTRACT | HERNANDEZ, JACKSON J | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3651 | 1 |
| 1657 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18784201 | METHODS OF TREATING ESTROGEN SENSITIVE DISEASES WITH CANNABIS EXTRACT | HERNANDEZ, JACKSON J | — | §103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 25, 2024 |
| 18546101 | Moisture Reducing Roller Conveyor System and Method | DEUBLE, MARK A | 3651 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 11, 2023 |
| 17767210 | METHOD FOR COVALENT IMMOBILIZATION OF MOLECULAR COMPOUNDS | BREEN, KIMBERLY CATHERINE | 1657 | §103 | Final Rejection | 66d overdue | Pending | Apr 07, 2022 |
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