Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
University College Cardiff Consultants Limited maintains a presence in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area with 2 pending office actions. The distribution of these actions across 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units shows a diversified prosecution landscape relative to the 2 active matters. This spread suggests that the company's intellectual property interests in this field may span different technical niches or sub-specialties within the broader category, requiring a range of technical arguments during prosecution.
Jill E Culler is the busiest examiner associated with the portfolio, currently handling 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Since there are 2 pending office actions in total, the workload is evenly split among the assigned examiners. This distribution requires the company to manage interactions across multiple administrative units despite the limited number of active cases currently undergoing examination. Navigating 2 different art units simultaneously necessitates a versatile approach to USPTO communications to address the varying standards and expectations of each examiner involved.
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%) |
| §102 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CULLER, JILL E | 1 | 57.2% | +13.9% |
| CHONG, YONG SOO | 1 | 43.8% | +41.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18006817 | Products for Treating the JNCL Disease | CHONG, YONG SOO | 26d |
| 18032891 | SNOW STAKE | CULLER, JILL E | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2853 | 1 |
| 1623 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18032891 | SNOW STAKE | CULLER, JILL E | 2853 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 20, 2023 |
| 18006817 | Products for Treating the JNCL Disease | CHONG, YONG SOO | 1623 | §102Other | Final Rejection | 26d | Pending | Jan 25, 2023 |
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