Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
UNIVERSIDAD DEL PAÍS VASCO currently manages 1 pending office action within the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. The prosecution landscape for this university features 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. This structure shows that the university's current patenting efforts are focused on a specific technical domain under a single administrative review.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is MARCSISIN, ELLEN JEAN, who is currently handling 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Because there is only 1 distinct examiner for the entire portfolio, MARCSISIN, ELLEN JEAN is responsible for all of the university's pending actions. This concentration means that the university's current patent outcomes are dependent on the decisions of this examiner.
The involvement of 1 distinct art unit indicates that the technical subject matter is being evaluated by one specialized group. With 1 pending office action total, the university's current active docket is small and focused. Practitioners should focus on the specific requirements of the 1 distinct examiner to advance the university's current patent applications.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KUMAR, SRILAKSHMI K | 1 | 49.7% | +15.5% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17624986 | MICROFLUIDIC SENSOR FOR THE DETECTION OF ANALYTES | KUMAR, SRILAKSHMI K | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17624986 | MICROFLUIDIC SENSOR FOR THE DETECTION OF ANALYTES | KUMAR, SRILAKSHMI K | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1758 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17624986 | MICROFLUIDIC SENSOR FOR THE DETECTION OF ANALYTES | KUMAR, SRILAKSHMI K | 1758 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 26, 2022 |
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