Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days
UNIVERSITE DE BORDEAUX currently faces 3 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are distributed across distinct examiners, meaning each official is handling a single matter. Furthermore, the portfolio is spread across multiple distinct art units, indicating a diverse range of technical subject matter within the broader mechanical field.
The busiest examiner for the university is MARIEN, ANDREW JAMES, who has 1 pending office action. This workload is consistent with the other officials involved in the portfolio. The fact that the pending office actions are located in 3 distinct art units suggests that the university is pursuing several independent technological paths simultaneously.
Prosecution for this portfolio requires managing relationships across the distinct art units and examiners. Because each matter is in a different unit, the university must adapt its strategy to the specific standards of multiple examining groups. The 1 pending action with MARIEN, ANDREW JAMES is just one component of this multifaceted prosecution landscape.
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 | 2 (67%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MARIEN, ANDREW JAMES | 1 | 80.0% | +15.0% |
| EMPIE, NATHAN H | 1 | 43.5% | +43.1% |
| BARNES, MALCOLM | 1 | 81.0% | +5.1% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18850398 | PART MADE OF CMC MATERIAL WITH PRE-CRACKED ENVIRONMENTAL BARRIER FOR THERMOMECHANICAL ACCOMMODATION | MARIEN, ANDREW JAMES | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18354945 | INTERLEAVED COUPLED INDUCTORS TRANSFORMER | BARNES, MALCOLM | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18850398 | PART MADE OF CMC MATERIAL WITH PRE-CRACKED ENVIRONMENTAL BARRIER FOR THERMOMECHANICAL ACCOMMODATION | MARIEN, ANDREW JAMES | — |
| 18707133 | METHOD FOR DEPOSITING AN ENVIRONMENTAL BARRIER ON A PART MADE OF COMPOSITE MATERIAL HAVING A CERAMIC MATRIX | EMPIE, NATHAN H | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3745 | 1 |
| 1712 | 1 |
| 2837 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18850398 | PART MADE OF CMC MATERIAL WITH PRE-CRACKED ENVIRONMENTAL BARRIER FOR THERMOMECHANICAL ACCOMMODATION | MARIEN, ANDREW JAMES | 3745 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 24, 2024 |
| 18707133 | METHOD FOR DEPOSITING AN ENVIRONMENTAL BARRIER ON A PART MADE OF COMPOSITE MATERIAL HAVING A CERAMIC MATRIX | EMPIE, NATHAN H | 1712 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 02, 2024 |
| 18354945 | INTERLEAVED COUPLED INDUCTORS TRANSFORMER | BARNES, MALCOLM | 2837 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 19, 2023 |
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