Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
4 pending office actions • 4 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
UNIVERSITEIT TWENTE currently has 4 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. The prosecution of these matters is highly decentralized, involving 4 distinct examiners and 4 distinct art units. This suggests a broad range of technical subject matter that spans multiple specialized divisions at the USPTO, requiring a diverse set of legal and technical arguments to advance the portfolio.
GHORISHI, SEYED BEHROOZ is the busiest examiner for the university, holding 1 pending office action. Because there are 4 pending office actions in total, each of the 4 distinct examiners is responsible for exactly one action. This distribution means that no single examiner or art unit has a dominant influence over the university's current patent prosecution, which may reduce the risk of a single examiner's bias affecting the entire portfolio.
The involvement of 4 distinct art units indicates that the university's innovations in Chemistry & Materials are being evaluated by four different technical teams. Practitioners must manage four separate examiner relationships simultaneously. With 1 pending office action assigned to each examiner, the university faces a diverse set of procedural and technical requirements across its active portfolio. This decentralized structure requires careful coordination to ensure consistency in prosecution strategy across the 4 pending office actions.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (75%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GHORISHI, SEYED BEHROOZ | 1 | 68.8% | +44.0% |
| JACOB, OOMMEN | 1 | 79.1% | +17.5% |
| MURPHY, VICTORIA | 1 | 62.2% | +46.1% |
| MCDERMOTT, JEANNIE | 1 | 59.8% | +15.7% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18272993 | HANDHELD LASER-BASED PERFUSION IMAGING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF USING SAID APPARATUS | JACOB, OOMMEN | 75d |
| 18553313 | METHOD FOR FORMING A BOND BETWEEN TWO SUBSTRATES OF A DEVICE; DEVICE OBTAINABLE BY THE METHOD; A MICROFLUIDIC DEVICE; AND USE OF THE DEVICE | GHORISHI, SEYED BEHROOZ | — |
| 18028947 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MONITORING A NASAL HIGH-FLOW THERAPY SYSTEM | MURPHY, VICTORIA | — |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18272993 | HANDHELD LASER-BASED PERFUSION IMAGING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF USING SAID APPARATUS | JACOB, OOMMEN | 75d |
| 17776604 | Porous membranes comprising sorbent particles for improved urea capture | MCDERMOTT, JEANNIE | 78d |
| 18553313 | METHOD FOR FORMING A BOND BETWEEN TWO SUBSTRATES OF A DEVICE; DEVICE OBTAINABLE BY THE METHOD; A MICROFLUIDIC DEVICE; AND USE OF THE DEVICE | GHORISHI, SEYED BEHROOZ | — |
| 18028947 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MONITORING A NASAL HIGH-FLOW THERAPY SYSTEM | MURPHY, VICTORIA | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1799 | 1 |
| 3797 | 1 |
| 3785 | 1 |
| 1777 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18553313 | METHOD FOR FORMING A BOND BETWEEN TWO SUBSTRATES OF A DEVICE; DEVICE OBTAINABLE BY THE METHOD; A MICROFLUIDIC DEVICE; AND USE OF THE DEVICE | GHORISHI, SEYED BEHROOZ | 1799 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 29, 2023 |
| 18272993 | HANDHELD LASER-BASED PERFUSION IMAGING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF USING SAID APPARATUS | JACOB, OOMMEN | 3797 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 75d | Pending | Jul 18, 2023 |
| 18028947 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MONITORING A NASAL HIGH-FLOW THERAPY SYSTEM | MURPHY, VICTORIA | 3785 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 28, 2023 |
| 17776604 | Porous membranes comprising sorbent particles for improved urea capture | MCDERMOTT, JEANNIE | 1777 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 78d | Pending | May 13, 2022 |
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