Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
7 pending office actions • 6 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
The University of Nottingham is active in the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. The portfolio currently has 6 pending office actions. These matters are spread across 5 distinct art units, reflecting a broad range of technical examination environments. The 5 distinct art units suggest that the 6 pending office actions cover a diverse array of scientific classifications.
The prosecution involves 6 distinct examiners. CHANG, MINKI is the busiest examiner for the university, currently managing 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Because there are 6 distinct examiners for 6 pending office actions, no single examiner is handling more than one active matter for the portfolio. This distribution across 5 distinct art units and 6 distinct examiners indicates a highly decentralized prosecution strategy where each matter receives individual attention from a different examiner.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (14%) |
| §103 only | 2 (29%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (57%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHANG, MINKI | 1 | 71.6% | +10.1% |
| BOECKELMAN, JACOB A | 1 | 35.2% | +45.6% |
| FANG, MICHAEL YIMING | 1 | 61.9% | +39.6% |
| BOWERS, NATHAN ANDREW | 1 | 59.4% | +31.9% |
| BLANCO, JAVIER G | 1 | 76.0% | +45.2% |
| RUFO, LOUIS J | 1 | 54.4% | +22.9% |
| VAN BUREN, LAUREN K | 1 | 39.8% | +58.1% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17799910 | MICROTOPOGRAPHIES AND USES THEREOF | BOWERS, NATHAN ANDREW | 22d |
| 18247313 | MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY METHOD AND SYSTEM | FANG, MICHAEL YIMING | 41d |
| 19047778 | ELECTRIC MOTOR AND COMPONENTS | CHANG, MINKI | — |
| 18557561 | DECELLULARIZED TISSUE HYDROGELS | BOECKELMAN, JACOB A | — |
| 17776990 | CORNEAL TISSUE | BLANCO, JAVIER G | — |
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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17799910 | MICROTOPOGRAPHIES AND USES THEREOF | BOWERS, NATHAN ANDREW | 22d |
| 17440991 | Enhanced Transfection | VAN BUREN, LAUREN K | 33d |
| 18247313 | MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY METHOD AND SYSTEM | FANG, MICHAEL YIMING | 41d |
| 19047778 | ELECTRIC MOTOR AND COMPONENTS | CHANG, MINKI | — |
| 18557561 | DECELLULARIZED TISSUE HYDROGELS | BOECKELMAN, JACOB A | — |
| 17776990 | CORNEAL TISSUE | BLANCO, JAVIER G | — |
| 17635480 | REACTION APPARATUS | RUFO, LOUIS J | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1655 | 1 |
| 3798 | 1 |
| 1799 | 1 |
| 3774 | 1 |
| 1795 | 1 |
| 1638 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19047778 | ELECTRIC MOTOR AND COMPONENTS | CHANG, MINKI | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 07, 2025 |
| 18557561 | DECELLULARIZED TISSUE HYDROGELS | BOECKELMAN, JACOB A | 1655 | §101§102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 26, 2023 |
| 18247313 | MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY METHOD AND SYSTEM | FANG, MICHAEL YIMING | 3798 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 41d | Pending | Mar 30, 2023 |
| 17799910 | MICROTOPOGRAPHIES AND USES THEREOF | BOWERS, NATHAN ANDREW | 1799 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 22d | Pending | Aug 15, 2022 |
| 17776990 | CORNEAL TISSUE | BLANCO, JAVIER G | 3774 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 13, 2022 |
| 17635480 | REACTION APPARATUS | RUFO, LOUIS J | 1795 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 15, 2022 |
| 17440991 | Enhanced Transfection | VAN BUREN, LAUREN K | 1638 | §103 | Final Rejection | 33d | Pending | Sep 20, 2021 |
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