Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Chemistry & Materials • Networking & Security
6 pending office actions • 4 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
UNIVERSIDADE DE COIMBRA has 6 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These matters are spread across 4 distinct art units, indicating a diverse technical focus for the university's portfolio. The prosecution is handled by 6 distinct examiners, with each examiner responsible for exactly one of the 6 pending actions. This distribution requires the management of 6 separate examiner relationships.
BLAISE, BRADFORD CHRISTOPHER is identified as the busiest examiner for the portfolio, holding 1 pending office action. This distribution suggests that the university must manage relationships with 6 different examiners across 4 separate art units. The lack of concentration among examiners means that prosecution strategies must be tailored to the specific tendencies of each individual involved in the 6 active cases. With 4 distinct art units involved, the university is engaging with multiple specialized examination branches. This decentralized structure for pending office actions means that the university's success depends on navigating unique examination paths with 1 pending office action per examiner.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 |
|---|---|
| §102 only | 1 (17%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (17%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (67%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BLAISE, BRADFORD CHRISTOPHER | 1 | 60.7% | +31.5% |
| EGLOFF, PETER RICHARD | 1 | 43.2% | +32.2% |
| SIMITOSKI, MICHAEL J | 1 | 80.3% | +28.4% |
| HOERNER, PAUL ELLSWORTH | 1 | 50.0% | +62.1% |
| KWAK, DEAN P | 1 | 58.7% | +37.1% |
| LI, AIQUN | 1 | 63.8% | +23.1% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18255458 | SENSING APPARATUS AND METHOD | KWAK, DEAN P | 16d |
| 18880121 | METHOD TO OBTAIN A SKIN ELECTRODE PATCH AND RESPECTIVE SKIN ELECTRODE PATCH | BLAISE, BRADFORD CHRISTOPHER | — |
| 18869875 | BIDIRECTIONAL FEEDBACK SYSTEM AND RESPECTIVE METHOD | EGLOFF, PETER RICHARD | — |
| 18765079 | Physical Layer Security | SIMITOSKI, MICHAEL J | — |
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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18026275 | WATER-SOLUBLE TRYPTHANTRIN DERIVATIVES FOR REDOX FLOW BATTERIES | LI, AIQUN | 56d overdue |
| 18255458 | SENSING APPARATUS AND METHOD | KWAK, DEAN P | 16d |
| 18880121 | METHOD TO OBTAIN A SKIN ELECTRODE PATCH AND RESPECTIVE SKIN ELECTRODE PATCH | BLAISE, BRADFORD CHRISTOPHER | — |
| 18869875 | BIDIRECTIONAL FEEDBACK SYSTEM AND RESPECTIVE METHOD | EGLOFF, PETER RICHARD | — |
| 18765079 | Physical Layer Security | SIMITOSKI, MICHAEL J | — |
| 18690528 | POLYMERIC NANOPARTICLE FORMULATIONS FOR TARGETED MRNA DELIVERY | HOERNER, PAUL ELLSWORTH | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2493 | 1 |
| 1611 | 1 |
| 1798 | 1 |
| 1766 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18880121 | METHOD TO OBTAIN A SKIN ELECTRODE PATCH AND RESPECTIVE SKIN ELECTRODE PATCH | BLAISE, BRADFORD CHRISTOPHER | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 30, 2024 |
| 18869875 | BIDIRECTIONAL FEEDBACK SYSTEM AND RESPECTIVE METHOD | EGLOFF, PETER RICHARD | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 27, 2024 |
| 18765079 | Physical Layer Security | SIMITOSKI, MICHAEL J | 2493 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 05, 2024 |
| 18690528 | POLYMERIC NANOPARTICLE FORMULATIONS FOR TARGETED MRNA DELIVERY | HOERNER, PAUL ELLSWORTH | 1611 | §102§103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 08, 2024 |
| 18255458 | SENSING APPARATUS AND METHOD | KWAK, DEAN P | 1798 | §102§112Other | Non-Final OA | 16d | Pending | Jun 01, 2023 |
| 18026275 | WATER-SOLUBLE TRYPTHANTRIN DERIVATIVES FOR REDOX FLOW BATTERIES | LI, AIQUN | 1766 | §102 | Non-Final OA | 56d overdue | Pending | Mar 14, 2023 |
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