Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
UNIVERSITAT DE VALÈNCIA has 2 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are split between 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. This distribution shows that the university's current filings are being reviewed across different technical groups within the USPTO, which may require distinct prosecution strategies for each application. The distribution across 2 art units suggests the university's chemistry filings are technically diverse and cover multiple specialized categories.
JOHNSON, CHRISTINA ANN is the busiest examiner, responsible for 1 pending office action. This 1 action is among the 2 total pending office actions for the portfolio. The presence of 2 examiners across 2 art units means that the university must manage 2 separate examination timelines and sets of examiner preferences simultaneously. For the practitioner, this distribution indicates that the active patent strategy is not concentrated in a single technical niche, but is instead spread across multiple specialized groups at the patent office.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| JOHNSON, CHRISTINA ANN | 1 | 38.3% | -9.8% |
| ADAMS, MICHELLE | 1 | 58.6% | +40.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18040570 | NEW THIOUREA-BASED COMPOUNDS, PRODUCTION METHOD AND USE THEREOF TO DETECT GHB IN BEVERAGES | ADAMS, MICHELLE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1742 | 1 |
| 1797 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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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