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 • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
UNIVERSITAT POLITECNICA DE CATALUNYA is managing 2 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are distributed across 2 distinct examiners, indicating a split prosecution focus. Because the 2 pending office actions are split between different examiners, the institution is engaging with multiple points of review within the chemistry sector. This suggests that the active filings cover at least two distinct technical innovations, requiring a coordinated approach to maintain consistency across the university's portfolio.
Nicholas Anthony Piro is the busiest examiner for the university, with 1 busiest examiner pending action. The portfolio's activity is spread across 2 distinct art units. The involvement of 2 distinct art units suggests that the underlying technology may have applications across different chemistry classifications. For practitioners, managing 2 pending office actions across different units requires a nuanced understanding of how each examiner interprets the technical disclosures. This distributed model indicates that the university's chemistry research spans multiple specialized technical fields.
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 |
|---|---|
| §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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PIRO, NICHOLAS ANTHONY | 1 | 45.9% | +35.9% |
| PULLEN, NIKOLAS TAKUYA | 1 | 52.5% | +8.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17620447 | ATOMIZATION DEVICE | PULLEN, NIKOLAS TAKUYA | 96d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18036349 | COMPOSITION OR MATERIAL, A PROCESS FOR ITS PRODUCTION AND USES THEREOF | PIRO, NICHOLAS ANTHONY | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1738 | 1 |
| 1733 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18036349 | COMPOSITION OR MATERIAL, A PROCESS FOR ITS PRODUCTION AND USES THEREOF | PIRO, NICHOLAS ANTHONY | 1738 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 10, 2023 |
| 17620447 | ATOMIZATION DEVICE | PULLEN, NIKOLAS TAKUYA | 1733 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 96d overdue | Pending | Dec 17, 2021 |
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