Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
4 pending office actions • 3 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 currently manages 4 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These active matters are distributed among 4 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units, reflecting a diverse range of technical review. This spread indicates that the university's research in Chemistry & Materials spans several specialized domains within the patent office.
The busiest examiner for the university is JONES, ANDREW B, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. Given that there are 4 pending office actions and 4 distinct examiners, the 4 examiners are each handling 1 case. This distribution means that no single examiner has a dominant influence over the current portfolio's direction.
For those overseeing this portfolio, the presence of 3 distinct art units means that prosecution strategies must be tailored to 3 different sets of internal guidelines. With 4 pending office actions spread across 4 distinct examiners, the university must maintain consistent messaging across multiple parallel tracks. This structure suggests a broad but thinly spread active prosecution pipeline within the Chemistry & Materials sector.
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 | 73.3% | +21.8% |
| HOQUE, FARHANA AKHTER | 1 | 86.0% | +11.3% |
| SUN, CAITLYN MINGYUN | 1 | 63.5% | +11.9% |
| 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 |
|---|---|
| 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 | — | §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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