Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
1 pending office actions • 0 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Universita' Degli Studi Di Ferrara maintains a company patent portfolio that currently shows a minimal level of prosecution activity. The data indicates 1 pending office action, which is the only active matter for the university at this time. This 1 pending office action suggests a focused intellectual property strategy, likely centered on a single key research innovation.
The prosecution of this portfolio involves 1 distinct examiner, but the data shows 0 distinct art units. This suggests that while 1 examiner has been assigned to the case, the formal art unit categorization is not currently available in the data. Despite the 0 distinct art units, the involvement of only 1 distinct examiner points to a centralized and narrow prosecution process for the university's filing.
RUPPERT, ERIC S is the busiest examiner for Universita' Degli Studi Di Ferrara, currently handling 1 pending office action. As the only 1 examiner associated with the portfolio, Ruppert's individual review and decision-making will be the sole factor in the outcome of the pending application. The busiest examiner pending count of 1 confirms that the university's current patent office engagement is entirely focused on this 1 interaction, allowing for a targeted legal approach.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| RUPPERT, ERIC S | 1 | 59.8% | +24.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19103227 | THERMAL BARRIER FOR VENTILATED ROOFS | RUPPERT, ERIC S | — |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19103227 | THERMAL BARRIER FOR VENTILATED ROOFS | RUPPERT, ERIC S | — | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 11, 2025 |
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