Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 02, 2026

Università Degli Studi Di Catania

Technology area: Chemistry & Materials

1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready

Analysis

Università Degli Studi Di Catania is managing 1 pending office action in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, YI, STELLA KIM, who is the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action. The action is being reviewed within 1 distinct art unit, reflecting a highly specific and singular focus for the university's current pending chemistry-related prosecution.

Because there is only 1 pending office action, the university's entire current engagement with the patent office is concentrated under 1 distinct examiner. This 1 distinct art unit provides the departmental framework for the review. Practitioners should be aware that with only one matter pending, the university's current prosecution profile is highly sensitive to the individual discretion of YI, STELLA KIM within the Chemistry & Materials sector.

Written from this page's own data; every figure is computed from USPTO records and verified before publication.

Portfolio Summary

1
Total Pending OAs
1
Non-Final OAs
0
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Case Difficulty Mix

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.

0
Hard (0%)
1
Medium (100%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§102 only1 (100%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

1
Life Sciences
100% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
0
Mechanical / Eng
0% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

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.

10 h
Manual time on pending OAs
2 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
4 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.1 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
YI, STELLA KIM 1 71.0% +28.5%

Interview Candidates (1)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18880299 METHOD OF MAKING HOLLOW COMPONENT OF COMPOSITE MATERIAL USING COLLAPSABLE AND REUSABLE MANDREL YI, STELLA KIM —

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1742 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18880299 METHOD OF MAKING HOLLOW COMPONENT OF COMPOSITE MATERIAL USING COLLAPSABLE AND REUSABLE MANDREL YI, STELLA KIM 1742 §102 Non-Final OA — Pending Dec 31, 2024

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