Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Universidad De Buenos Aires currently manages 1 pending office action within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, KAUR, GURPREET, who is also identified as the busiest examiner for the portfolio. The presence of 1 distinct examiner suggests a focused prosecution effort for this specific matter. This examiner is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending action, representing the total volume of current office action activity for the entity.
The portfolio is situated within 1 distinct art unit. With KAUR, GURPREET handling the 1 busiest examiner pending action, the current pending workload is centralized. This alignment between the pending office action and the 1 distinct art unit indicates the technical scope for the active portion of the university's patent interests. Practitioners should note that the 1 distinct art unit and 1 distinct examiner mean there is no distribution of the workload across different examination styles.
The Chemistry & Materials technology area classification provides the context for the 1 pending office action. Because there is only 1 distinct examiner involved, the prosecution is dependent on the interactions with KAUR, GURPREET. This focus within the 1 distinct art unit streamlines the administrative tracking of the portfolio but limits the breadth of the current patenting activity to the specific technical niche defined by that art unit.
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 |
|---|---|
| §112 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KAUR, GURPREET | 1 | 65.4% | +35.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18863290 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR THE DETECTION OF BIOMARKERS ASSOCIATED WITH NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES | KAUR, GURPREET | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1795 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18863290 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR THE DETECTION OF BIOMARKERS ASSOCIATED WITH NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES | KAUR, GURPREET | 1795 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 05, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialUniversidad De Buenos Aires has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Gurpreet Kaur has the most, with 1 of Universidad De Buenos Aires's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
