Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Computing & Software
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
University of Dayton manages a patent portfolio in the Chemistry & Materials technology area with 2 pending office actions. These actions are distributed across 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. This distribution shows that the university's pending work is being evaluated by different specialized groups within the patent office.
The busiest examiner, LANGEL, WAYNE A, is currently managing 1 pending office action. With a total of 2 pending office actions, the workload is split between 2 distinct examiners. This indicates that the prosecution strategy must address the specific requirements of 2 different art units, as no single examiner handles more than one case.
For practitioners, the involvement of 2 distinct examiners indicates that the university's Chemistry & Materials portfolio is not centralized under one individual. Each of the 2 pending office actions will follow its own trajectory based on the 2 distinct art units involved. The 1 pending office action managed by LANGEL, WAYNE A represents half of the current active prosecution for the university in this technology 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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (100%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LANGEL, WAYNE A | 1 | 78.4% | +23.2% |
| SMITH, BRIAN M | 1 | 52.5% | +36.9% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18242352 | ON-CHIP TRAINING OF MEMRISTOR CROSSBAR NEUROMORPHIC PROCESSING SYSTEMS | SMITH, BRIAN M | 50d |
| 18506852 | ZINC OXIDE-BASED SUSTAINABLE NANOFERTILIZERS FOR ENHANCED CROP GROWTH | LANGEL, WAYNE A | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18242352 | ON-CHIP TRAINING OF MEMRISTOR CROSSBAR NEUROMORPHIC PROCESSING SYSTEMS | SMITH, BRIAN M | 50d |
| 18506852 | ZINC OXIDE-BASED SUSTAINABLE NANOFERTILIZERS FOR ENHANCED CROP GROWTH | LANGEL, WAYNE A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1793 | 1 |
| 2122 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18506852 | ZINC OXIDE-BASED SUSTAINABLE NANOFERTILIZERS FOR ENHANCED CROP GROWTH | LANGEL, WAYNE A | 1793 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 10, 2023 |
| 18242352 | ON-CHIP TRAINING OF MEMRISTOR CROSSBAR NEUROMORPHIC PROCESSING SYSTEMS | SMITH, BRIAN M | 2122 | §102§112Other | Non-Final OA | 50d | Pending | Sep 05, 2023 |
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