Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
The UNIVERSITY OF YAMANASHI currently has 3 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are distributed across 3 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units. SCHWARTZ, PHILIP N is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending office action.
This distribution shows that each of the 3 pending office actions is being handled by a different examiner in a different art unit. SCHWARTZ, PHILIP N is one of the 3 distinct examiners involved in the university's prosecution. The use of 3 distinct art units suggests a broad range of chemical or material research being patented.
Practitioners face a decentralized prosecution environment. With 3 pending office actions spread across 3 distinct art units, there is no single point of contact or unified examination style. Success for the UNIVERSITY OF YAMANASHI requires managing 3 distinct examiners, each overseeing a single pending action in the Chemistry & Materials field. This diversity in prosecution requires a versatile strategy to address the unique requirements of each 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 |
|---|---|
| §102 only | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (67%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SCHWARTZ, PHILIP N | 1 | 55.5% | +17.0% |
| BAUM, ZACHARY JOHN | 1 | 81.5% | +14.9% |
| SHI, TINGCHEN | 1 | 69.7% | +24.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18265372 | BEAD STRING OF TIN OXIDE CRYSTALLITE OR BEAD STRING OF COMPLEX OXIDE CRYSTALLITE OF TIN OXIDE AND TITANIUM OXIDE | BAUM, ZACHARY JOHN | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18275299 | GAS DIFFUSION LAYER, SEPARATOR AND ELECTROCHEMICAL REACTOR | SCHWARTZ, PHILIP N | — |
| 18017975 | FROZEN EGG CULTIVATION APPARATUS, AND METHOD FOR CULTIVATING FROZEN EGGS | SHI, TINGCHEN | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18275299 | GAS DIFFUSION LAYER, SEPARATOR AND ELECTROCHEMICAL REACTOR | SCHWARTZ, PHILIP N | — |
| 18265372 | BEAD STRING OF TIN OXIDE CRYSTALLITE OR BEAD STRING OF COMPLEX OXIDE CRYSTALLITE OF TIN OXIDE AND TITANIUM OXIDE | BAUM, ZACHARY JOHN | — |
| 18017975 | FROZEN EGG CULTIVATION APPARATUS, AND METHOD FOR CULTIVATING FROZEN EGGS | SHI, TINGCHEN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1749 | 1 |
| 1736 | 1 |
| 1796 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18275299 | GAS DIFFUSION LAYER, SEPARATOR AND ELECTROCHEMICAL REACTOR | SCHWARTZ, PHILIP N | 1749 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 01, 2023 |
| 18265372 | BEAD STRING OF TIN OXIDE CRYSTALLITE OR BEAD STRING OF COMPLEX OXIDE CRYSTALLITE OF TIN OXIDE AND TITANIUM OXIDE | BAUM, ZACHARY JOHN | 1736 | §102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 05, 2023 |
| 18017975 | FROZEN EGG CULTIVATION APPARATUS, AND METHOD FOR CULTIVATING FROZEN EGGS | SHI, TINGCHEN | 1796 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 25, 2023 |
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