Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Chemistry & Materials
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Universita Degli Studi Di Genova maintains 2 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are distributed across 2 distinct examiners, which suggests a diversified approach to prosecution even with a small number of active files. The involvement of 2 distinct art units further indicates that the university's research interests in this sector span multiple specialized classifications within the patent office.
The busiest examiner, JONES, KOLTON ED, is currently handling 1 pending office action. This workload is shared with another examiner who manages the remaining action. For patent practitioners, this distribution means that prosecution strategies must be tailored to two different examiner styles simultaneously. The balance between the 2 distinct examiners and the total pending workload prevents any single examiner from dominating the portfolio's current trajectory.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 1 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| JONES, KOLTON ED | 1 | — | — |
| OLSEN, KAELEIGH ELIZABETH | 1 | 47.1% | +64.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18706788 | PROCESS FOR PREPARING POLYMETHYLMETHACRYLATE CONTAINING HIGH CONCENTRATION OF GADOLINIUM OXIDE NANOMETRIC PARTICLES | JONES, KOLTON ED | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18550382 | A METHOD FOR THE PRODUCTION OF GASTRORETENTIVE COMPACT MATRICES FOR THE CONTROLLED RELEASE OF ACTIVE SUBSTANCES AND COMPACT MATRICES THUS OBTAINED | OLSEN, KAELEIGH ELIZABETH | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1763 | 1 |
| 1619 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18706788 | PROCESS FOR PREPARING POLYMETHYLMETHACRYLATE CONTAINING HIGH CONCENTRATION OF GADOLINIUM OXIDE NANOMETRIC PARTICLES | JONES, KOLTON ED | 1763 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 02, 2024 |
| 18550382 | A METHOD FOR THE PRODUCTION OF GASTRORETENTIVE COMPACT MATRICES FOR THE CONTROLLED RELEASE OF ACTIVE SUBSTANCES AND COMPACT MATRICES THUS OBTAINED | OLSEN, KAELEIGH ELIZABETH | 1619 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 13, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialUniversita Degli Studi Di Genova has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Kolton Ed Jones has the most, with 1 of Universita Degli Studi Di Genova's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
