Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
The University of Alaska Anchorage has 3 pending office actions in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These actions are spread across 3 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units, showing a distribution of prosecution tasks across different specialized groups. This variety indicates that the university's intellectual property is being evaluated by multiple technical perspectives within the patent office rather than a single administrative silo. Such a spread can mitigate the risk of a single examiner's tendencies impacting the entire pending portfolio.
EIX, EMILY FAY is the busiest examiner for the university. This examiner is responsible for 1 pending office action, which is a portion of the 3 total pending actions currently being managed by the organization. Because each pending action is handled by a different examiner, the university faces a decentralized prosecution environment. The involvement of 3 distinct art units further indicates that the pending applications span multiple technical sub-fields, requiring the university to navigate various examination standards simultaneously across the assigned divisions.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 only | 1 (33%) |
| §103 only | 2 (67%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| EIX, EMILY FAY | 1 | 45.5% | +78.3% |
| ZAKARIA, AKM | 1 | 82.6% | +16.1% |
| JACKSON, JORDAN L | 1 | 40.8% | +38.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17782042 | LOW-POWER SENSOR NETWORK | ZAKARIA, AKM | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17773963 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR COMPREHENSIVE SYMPTOM ANALYSIS | JACKSON, JORDAN L | 30d |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17773963 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR COMPREHENSIVE SYMPTOM ANALYSIS | JACKSON, JORDAN L | 30d |
| 17919081 | METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR THE PRODUCTION OF ISOBUTENE | EIX, EMILY FAY | — |
| 17782042 | LOW-POWER SENSOR NETWORK | ZAKARIA, AKM | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1653 | 1 |
| 2858 | 1 |
| 2857 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17919081 | METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR THE PRODUCTION OF ISOBUTENE | EIX, EMILY FAY | 1653 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 14, 2022 |
| 17782042 | LOW-POWER SENSOR NETWORK | ZAKARIA, AKM | 2858 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 02, 2022 |
| 17773963 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR COMPREHENSIVE SYMPTOM ANALYSIS | JACKSON, JORDAN L | 2857 | §101 | Non-Final OA | 30d | Pending | May 03, 2022 |
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