Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
University of the District of Columbia is currently active in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. The portfolio features 1 pending office action. This matter is assigned to a distinct examiner, which centralizes the prosecution of the current filings. The case is being handled within a distinct art unit, ensuring a focused technical review of the chemical subject matter.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is ALDAZ CERVANTES, MAYELA RENATA. This examiner is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Since the total count of pending matters is limited, the prosecution strategy is entirely dependent on the findings and preferences of this individual. The Chemistry & Materials classification implies that the subject matter involves specialized material science or chemical compositions.
For a practitioner, the concentration of the workload under the same examiner and art unit allows for a consistent prosecution approach. There are no competing examiner requirements to balance across the portfolio at this time. The influence of ALDAZ CERVANTES, MAYELA RENATA is paramount to the outcome of the current docket. This structure provides a streamlined path for resolving the outstanding issues in the pending application.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ALDAZ CERVANTES, MAYELA RENATA | 1 | 70.0% | +39.4% |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18203333 | Apparatus and Method for Wet Powder Dispensing for Low Temperature Metal 3D Printing | ALDAZ CERVANTES, MAYELA RENATA | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1733 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18203333 | Apparatus and Method for Wet Powder Dispensing for Low Temperature Metal 3D Printing | ALDAZ CERVANTES, MAYELA RENATA | 1733 | §112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 30, 2023 |
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