Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Universitat Politécnica De Catalunya has 1 pending office action in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This prosecution involves 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, reflecting a narrow technical focus for their current filings. This concentration indicates that the university's current innovations are being evaluated by a single technical specialist within a specific department at the patent office.
KANG, TAE-SIK is the busiest examiner, overseeing the 1 pending office action. Because the portfolio only includes 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, the university's immediate patent results depend on the review of this individual. This singular point of contact simplifies the management of the portfolio, as there are no competing requirements from different reviewers. Practitioners should focus on building a consistent dialogue with this examiner to efficiently resolve the 1 pending office action and move the application toward a final determination within the 1 distinct art unit.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KANG, TAE-SIK | 1 | 58.2% | +27.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18545698 | HOLE-SELECTIVE CONTACT STRUCTURE FOR SOLAR CELL | KANG, TAE-SIK | 59d 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18545698 | HOLE-SELECTIVE CONTACT STRUCTURE FOR SOLAR CELL | KANG, TAE-SIK | 59d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1728 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18545698 | HOLE-SELECTIVE CONTACT STRUCTURE FOR SOLAR CELL | KANG, TAE-SIK | 1728 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 59d overdue | Pending | Dec 19, 2023 |
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