Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
UNIVERSITE DE HAUTE ALSACE is currently managing 3 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are distributed among 3 distinct examiners, which indicates that every pending matter is being handled by a different individual. This ratio of examiners to actions suggests a broad spread of the university's technical disclosures across different examination styles.
The portfolio is active across 2 distinct art units, meaning the 3 distinct examiners are not all housed within the same group. HOU, FRANK S is identified as the busiest examiner, currently holding 1 busiest examiner pending action. Because the 3 pending office actions are split among 3 different people, HOU, FRANK S shares the workload with the other examiners.
For those overseeing this portfolio, the presence of 2 distinct art units for 3 pending office actions requires attention to different procedural nuances. The 3 distinct examiners provide separate points of contact, which can lead to varied prosecution timelines. The 1 busiest examiner pending action for HOU, FRANK S represents a portion of the total pending volume for the university in the Chemistry & Materials area.
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 (33%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (33%) |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HOU, FRANK S | 1 | 68.3% | +34.8% |
| USELDING, JOHN E | 1 | 53.7% | +17.5% |
| BROOKS, KREGG T | 1 | 57.1% | +1.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18579048 | PREPARATION OF 6-SUBSTITUTED MENADIONES | HOU, FRANK S | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18579048 | PREPARATION OF 6-SUBSTITUTED MENADIONES | HOU, FRANK S | — |
| 17610193 | SILYL TERMINATED PREPOLYMER AND COMPOSITION COMPRISING THE SAME | USELDING, JOHN E | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1763 | 1 |
| 1764 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18579048 | PREPARATION OF 6-SUBSTITUTED MENADIONES | HOU, FRANK S | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 12, 2024 |
| 17610193 | SILYL TERMINATED PREPOLYMER AND COMPOSITION COMPRISING THE SAME | USELDING, JOHN E | 1763 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 10, 2021 |
| 17609698 | SILYL TERMINATED PREPOLYMER AND COMPOSITION COMPRISING THE SAME | BROOKS, KREGG T | 1764 | §103 | Final Rejection | 19d | Pending | Nov 08, 2021 |
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