Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
4 pending office actions • 3 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 8 patents granted in the last 365 days
UNIVERSITY PUBLIC CORPORATION OSAKA currently has 4 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These active matters are distributed among 4 distinct examiners, which indicates a broad engagement with the USPTO's technical staff. The portfolio also spans 3 distinct art units, suggesting that the university's research and patenting efforts cover several different specialized areas within the chemical sciences. This variety requires a prosecution strategy that can handle the nuances of different art unit standards and procedural expectations across multiple technical divisions.
The busiest examiner for UNIVERSITY PUBLIC CORPORATION OSAKA is WALLENHORST, MAUREEN, who is managing 1 busiest examiner pending action. With 4 pending office actions and 4 distinct examiners, the workload is evenly distributed, meaning each examiner is responsible for a single matter. This distribution across 4 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units reduces the impact of any single examiner's subjective preferences on the overall portfolio. It also highlights the complexity of the university's current filings, which necessitate interaction with multiple specialized reviewers. Practitioners must manage four separate prosecution timelines for these 4 pending office actions.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 | 1 (25%) |
| §103 only | 1 (25%) |
| §112 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WALLENHORST, MAUREEN | 1 | 78.9% | +5.8% |
| SCHWARZENBERG, PAUL | 1 | 61.6% | +27.8% |
| KIM, TAE JUN | 1 | 64.0% | +25.7% |
| HUYNH, PHUONG N | 1 | 65.7% | +53.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18279643 | WELDING ELECTRODE AND SPOT-WELDING DEVICE | KIM, TAE JUN | 15d overdue |
| 18280804 | CALCULATION METHOD FOR HEATING PLAN, PROGRAM, RECORDING MEDIUM, DEVICE, DEFORMATION METHOD, PLATE DEFORMATION DEVICE, AND PRODUCTION METHOD FOR DEFORMED PLATE | SCHWARZENBERG, PAUL | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18279643 | WELDING ELECTRODE AND SPOT-WELDING DEVICE | KIM, TAE JUN | 15d overdue |
| 17907659 | MULTISPECIFIC ANTIBODY AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME | HUYNH, PHUONG N | 19d |
| 18280804 | CALCULATION METHOD FOR HEATING PLAN, PROGRAM, RECORDING MEDIUM, DEVICE, DEFORMATION METHOD, PLATE DEFORMATION DEVICE, AND PRODUCTION METHOD FOR DEFORMED PLATE | SCHWARZENBERG, PAUL | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1797 | 1 |
| 3799 | 1 |
| 1641 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18289837 | Method for Detecting Analyte, Detection Kit and Detection System, and Method for Manufacturing Detection Kit | WALLENHORST, MAUREEN | 1797 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 07, 2023 |
| 18280804 | CALCULATION METHOD FOR HEATING PLAN, PROGRAM, RECORDING MEDIUM, DEVICE, DEFORMATION METHOD, PLATE DEFORMATION DEVICE, AND PRODUCTION METHOD FOR DEFORMED PLATE | SCHWARZENBERG, PAUL | — | §101§102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 07, 2023 |
| 18279643 | WELDING ELECTRODE AND SPOT-WELDING DEVICE | KIM, TAE JUN | 3799 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 15d overdue | Pending | Aug 31, 2023 |
| 17907659 | MULTISPECIFIC ANTIBODY AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME | HUYNH, PHUONG N | 1641 | §112 | Final Rejection | 19d | Pending | Sep 28, 2022 |
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