Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
4 pending office actions • 3 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
The University of Maine System Board of Trustees manages a patent portfolio in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. There are currently 5 pending office actions within this portfolio. These actions are distributed among 5 distinct examiners. Furthermore, the prosecution is spread across 4 distinct art units, which shows the variety of technical subject matter being examined by the patent office.
Omar F Hijaz is the busiest examiner for the university, with 1 pending office action. Since there are 5 pending office actions and 5 distinct examiners, the workload is decentralized across the patent office. This ratio of examiners and art units relative to the 5 pending actions suggests that the university's research covers a range of specialized mechanical or systems-based technologies. Practitioners must manage a diverse set of examiner interactions, including the 1 pending office action assigned to the busiest examiner.
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 + other | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HIJAZ, OMAR F | 1 | 55.5% | +35.4% |
| GUINO-O UZZLE, MARITES A | 1 | 68.9% | +16.6% |
| ORME, PATRICK JAMES | 1 | 59.9% | +13.6% |
| PRICE, NATHAN R | 1 | 53.4% | +38.9% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18841541 | FOLDABLE PHYSICAL STRUCTURES | HIJAZ, OMAR F | — |
| 18654912 | COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR ACCELERATED SOIL STABILIZATION | GUINO-O UZZLE, MARITES A | — |
| 18294825 | CELLULOSE NANOFIBER (CNF) STABILIZED MEMBRANES AND METHODS OF MAKING THEREOF | ORME, PATRICK JAMES | — |
| 17923293 | METHODS AND DEVICES FOR TREATMENT OF NEUROPATHY | PRICE, NATHAN R | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18841541 | FOLDABLE PHYSICAL STRUCTURES | HIJAZ, OMAR F | — |
| 18654912 | COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR ACCELERATED SOIL STABILIZATION | GUINO-O UZZLE, MARITES A | — |
| 18294825 | CELLULOSE NANOFIBER (CNF) STABILIZED MEMBRANES AND METHODS OF MAKING THEREOF | ORME, PATRICK JAMES | — |
| 17923293 | METHODS AND DEVICES FOR TREATMENT OF NEUROPATHY | PRICE, NATHAN R | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3635 | 1 |
| 1779 | 1 |
| 3783 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18841541 | FOLDABLE PHYSICAL STRUCTURES | HIJAZ, OMAR F | 3635 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 26, 2024 |
| 18654912 | COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR ACCELERATED SOIL STABILIZATION | GUINO-O UZZLE, MARITES A | — | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 03, 2024 |
| 18294825 | CELLULOSE NANOFIBER (CNF) STABILIZED MEMBRANES AND METHODS OF MAKING THEREOF | ORME, PATRICK JAMES | 1779 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 02, 2024 |
| 17923293 | METHODS AND DEVICES FOR TREATMENT OF NEUROPATHY | PRICE, NATHAN R | 3783 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 04, 2022 |
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