Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days
University of Maryland has 1 pending office action in Chemistry & Materials. The matter is assigned to 1 examiner and 1 art unit, indicating a single examination path.
HARM, NICKOLAS R is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. Counsel can concentrate prosecution review on the examiner’s treatment of the pending claims and the assigned art unit.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HARM, NICKOLAS R | 1 | 79.5% | +5.8% |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1745 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18872134 | METHODS OF JOINING DISSIMILAR MATERIALS | HARM, NICKOLAS R | 1745 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 05, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialUniversity of Maryland has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Nickolas R Harm has the most, with 1 of University of Maryland's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
