Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Chemistry & Materials
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
The UNIVERSITY OF MACAU currently manages 3 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are spread across 3 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units, suggesting a diverse range of subject matter within this specific field. The use of 2 distinct art units indicates that the company's research and development in chemistry and materials spans different administrative classifications at the patent office.
KUNEMUND, ROBERT M is identified as the busiest examiner for the portfolio, with 1 pending office action. Because there are 3 separate examiners for 3 pending office actions, the workload is distributed such that no examiner handles more than 1 case. This decentralized prosecution requires the company to adapt to the different styles and requirements of 3 separate examiners across 2 different art units. Such a distribution suggests that while the technology area is consistent, the specific applications are distinct enough to be routed to different specialists.
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 |
|---|---|
| §112 only | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KUNEMUND, ROBERT M | 1 | 82.0% | +13.2% |
| LAU, JONATHAN S | 1 | 63.7% | -17.3% |
| POPA, ILEANA | 1 | 21.4% | +15.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18710633 | USES OF SPINEL-TYPE SINGLE CRYSTALS AS FERROELECTRICS AND RELAXOR FERROELECTRICS, ENERGY STORAGE MATERIAL AND RECHARGEABLE ENERGY STORAGE PRODUCT | KUNEMUND, ROBERT M | — |
| 18154229 | SUPRAMOLECULAR CELL-BASED CARRIER, DRUG LOADING SYSTEM AND ITS PREPARATION METHOD | POPA, ILEANA | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18710633 | USES OF SPINEL-TYPE SINGLE CRYSTALS AS FERROELECTRICS AND RELAXOR FERROELECTRICS, ENERGY STORAGE MATERIAL AND RECHARGEABLE ENERGY STORAGE PRODUCT | KUNEMUND, ROBERT M | — |
| 18154229 | SUPRAMOLECULAR CELL-BASED CARRIER, DRUG LOADING SYSTEM AND ITS PREPARATION METHOD | POPA, ILEANA | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1714 | 1 |
| 1633 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18710633 | USES OF SPINEL-TYPE SINGLE CRYSTALS AS FERROELECTRICS AND RELAXOR FERROELECTRICS, ENERGY STORAGE MATERIAL AND RECHARGEABLE ENERGY STORAGE PRODUCT | KUNEMUND, ROBERT M | 1714 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 16, 2024 |
| 18708217 | GLUCOHEXAOSE AND PREPARATION METHOD THEREFOR AND APPLICATION THEREOF, AND HAIR REGENERATION PREPARATION | LAU, JONATHAN S | — | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 08, 2024 |
| 18154229 | SUPRAMOLECULAR CELL-BASED CARRIER, DRUG LOADING SYSTEM AND ITS PREPARATION METHOD | POPA, ILEANA | 1633 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 13, 2023 |
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