Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Chemistry & Materials
4 pending office actions • 4 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
UNIVERSITAT DE VALÈNCIA has 4 pending office actions in Chemistry & Materials. The docket spans 4 distinct examiners and 4 distinct art units, indicating that each active matter is assigned to a separate examination path.
PATEL, RONAK C is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. The distributed assignments favor matter-specific prosecution analysis, supported by portfolio-level consistency in technical terminology and claim objectives.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (25%) |
| §103 only | 1 (25%) |
| §112 only | 1 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (25%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PATEL, RONAK C | 1 | 51.2% | +56.2% |
| NEGIN, RUSSELL SCOTT | 1 | 55.9% | +34.2% |
| JOHNSON, CHRISTINA ANN | 1 | 41.3% | -13.4% |
| ADAMS, MICHELLE | 1 | 58.8% | +40.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18574568 | MOLECULAR TOOLS FOR THE DIAGNOSIS AND PROGNOSIS OF MELANOCYTIC SPITZOID TUMORS | NEGIN, RUSSELL SCOTT | — |
| 18526495 | Photocatalyst Material and Nanometric Coating Obtained Thereof | JOHNSON, CHRISTINA ANN | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18291875 | 2D ANISOTROPIC BISMUTH MATERIALS AND METHOD FOR OBTAINING SAME USING COLLOIDAL SYNTHESIS | PATEL, RONAK C | — |
| 18574568 | MOLECULAR TOOLS FOR THE DIAGNOSIS AND PROGNOSIS OF MELANOCYTIC SPITZOID TUMORS | NEGIN, RUSSELL SCOTT | — |
| 18040570 | NEW THIOUREA-BASED COMPOUNDS, PRODUCTION METHOD AND USE THEREOF TO DETECT GHB IN BEVERAGES | ADAMS, MICHELLE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1788 | 1 |
| 1686 | 1 |
| 1742 | 1 |
| 1797 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18291875 | 2D ANISOTROPIC BISMUTH MATERIALS AND METHOD FOR OBTAINING SAME USING COLLOIDAL SYNTHESIS | PATEL, RONAK C | 1788 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 24, 2024 |
| 18574568 | MOLECULAR TOOLS FOR THE DIAGNOSIS AND PROGNOSIS OF MELANOCYTIC SPITZOID TUMORS | NEGIN, RUSSELL SCOTT | 1686 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 27, 2023 |
| 18526495 | Photocatalyst Material and Nanometric Coating Obtained Thereof | JOHNSON, CHRISTINA ANN | 1742 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 01, 2023 |
| 18040570 | NEW THIOUREA-BASED COMPOUNDS, PRODUCTION METHOD AND USE THEREOF TO DETECT GHB IN BEVERAGES | ADAMS, MICHELLE | 1797 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 03, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialUNIVERSITAT DE VALÈNCIA has 4 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 4 art units and 4 examiners.
Ronak C Patel has the most, with 1 of UNIVERSITAT DE VALÈNCIA's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
