Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
UNIVERSIDADE DO PORTO currently has 2 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These matters are split between 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. This indicates that each pending action is being handled by a different examiner in a different unit. This decentralized prosecution requires the applicant to adapt to the specific requirements and tendencies of 2 distinct art units simultaneously.
PETTITT, JOHN F is the busiest examiner for the company with 1 pending office action. With 2 distinct examiners each managing 1 of the 2 total pending actions, the portfolio shows no concentration of work under a single official. This structure means that the university's current legal challenges are being addressed by multiple individuals, which can lead to independent outcomes for each pending matter. The involvement of 2 distinct examiners ensures that the prosecution of one case does not necessarily set a precedent for the other.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PETTITT, JOHN F | 1 | 26.0% | +21.8% |
| WELLS, LAUREN QUINLAN | 1 | 48.4% | +60.3% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18033345 | METABOLIC ACTIVATORS FOR ENHANCING SPERM CAPACITATION IN MAMMALS | WELLS, LAUREN QUINLAN | 19d overdue |
| 18250865 | MODULAR CELLULAR SOLID GAS STORAGE PLATFORM SYSTEM | PETTITT, JOHN F | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18033345 | METABOLIC ACTIVATORS FOR ENHANCING SPERM CAPACITATION IN MAMMALS | WELLS, LAUREN QUINLAN | 19d overdue |
| 18250865 | MODULAR CELLULAR SOLID GAS STORAGE PLATFORM SYSTEM | PETTITT, JOHN F | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3763 | 1 |
| 1622 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18250865 | MODULAR CELLULAR SOLID GAS STORAGE PLATFORM SYSTEM | PETTITT, JOHN F | 3763 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 27, 2023 |
| 18033345 | METABOLIC ACTIVATORS FOR ENHANCING SPERM CAPACITATION IN MAMMALS | WELLS, LAUREN QUINLAN | 1622 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 19d overdue | Pending | Apr 23, 2023 |
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