Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Communications • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
4 pending office actions • 4 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
The UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE maintains 4 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are distributed across 4 distinct examiners and distinct art units. The presence of these matters across multiple examiners indicates a diversified prosecution landscape for a portfolio of this size. This variety ensures that the university's intellectual property is being evaluated by different sets of eyes at the USPTO.
The busiest examiner, JONES, ANDREW B, is currently handling 1 pending office action. Because each of the 4 pending office actions is assigned to a different examiner, the university must navigate unique sets of examiner preferences simultaneously. This distribution suggests that the university's chemistry and materials research spans several distinct technical niches. Practitioners must coordinate across the art units to ensure consistent messaging while responding to the specific requirements of the examiners.
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 + other | 2 (50%) |
| §102 only | 1 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (25%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| JONES, ANDREW B | 1 | 71.7% | +24.3% |
| HOQUE, FARHANA AKHTER | 1 | 86.0% | +11.2% |
| SUN, CAITLYN MINGYUN | 1 | 63.7% | +11.8% |
| ESPERON, NATHAN GREGORY | 1 | 41.0% | +23.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18716261 | ELECTROCHEMICAL DEVICE MONITORING | HOQUE, FARHANA AKHTER | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17798960 | APPARATUS AND METHOD | ESPERON, NATHAN GREGORY | 24d overdue |
| 18841239 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL OBJECT SHAPE ACQUISITION CHARACTERISATION AND CLASSIFICATION | JONES, ANDREW B | — |
| 18293528 | WATER QUALITY MONITORING METHOD AND DEVICE | SUN, CAITLYN MINGYUN | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17798960 | APPARATUS AND METHOD | ESPERON, NATHAN GREGORY | 24d overdue |
| 18841239 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL OBJECT SHAPE ACQUISITION CHARACTERISATION AND CLASSIFICATION | JONES, ANDREW B | — |
| 18716261 | ELECTROCHEMICAL DEVICE MONITORING | HOQUE, FARHANA AKHTER | — |
| 18293528 | WATER QUALITY MONITORING METHOD AND DEVICE | SUN, CAITLYN MINGYUN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2667 | 1 |
| 2858 | 1 |
| 1795 | 1 |
| 1799 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18841239 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL OBJECT SHAPE ACQUISITION CHARACTERISATION AND CLASSIFICATION | JONES, ANDREW B | 2667 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 23, 2024 |
| 18716261 | ELECTROCHEMICAL DEVICE MONITORING | HOQUE, FARHANA AKHTER | 2858 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 04, 2024 |
| 18293528 | WATER QUALITY MONITORING METHOD AND DEVICE | SUN, CAITLYN MINGYUN | 1795 | §101§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 30, 2024 |
| 17798960 | APPARATUS AND METHOD | ESPERON, NATHAN GREGORY | 1799 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 24d overdue | Pending | Aug 11, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialUNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE has 4 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 4 art units and 4 examiners.
Andrew B Jones has the most, with 1 of UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
