Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
The University of Southern California maintains 1 pending office action in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. The prosecution activity is limited to 1 distinct examiner and the assigned art unit, which suggests a narrow scope of current interaction with the patent office for these particular matters.
BLEDSOE, JOSHUA CALEB serves as the busiest examiner for the portfolio, handling the pending office action. This case represents the entirety of the pending workload, centralizing the university's current legal requirements within this examiner's jurisdiction.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BLEDSOE, JOSHUA CALEB | 1 | 43.9% | +45.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17848342 | FUNCTIONAL CARBON MATERIALS AND METHODS OF MAKING THE SAME | BLEDSOE, JOSHUA CALEB | 77d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1762 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17848342 | FUNCTIONAL CARBON MATERIALS AND METHODS OF MAKING THE SAME | BLEDSOE, JOSHUA CALEB | 1762 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 77d overdue | Pending | Jun 23, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialThe University of Southern California has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Joshua Caleb Bledsoe has the most, with 1 of The University of Southern California's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
