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 • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
UNIVERSITÄT PADERBORN currently manages 1 pending office action within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This active matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, ALDAZ CERVANTES, MAYELA RENATA, who is also identified as the busiest examiner for the portfolio with 1 pending case. This concentration suggests a highly focused prosecution effort where all current activity is localized under a single individual.
The portfolio's presence is limited to 1 distinct art unit. For a practitioner, this indicates that the university's current patent strategy in this sector is consolidated rather than distributed across multiple USPTO departments. The alignment of the 1 pending office action with a single examiner simplifies the monitoring of response deadlines and examiner-specific trends within the Chemistry & Materials field.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17911038 | ISOTROPIC, CRACK-FREE STEEL DESIGN USING AN ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING METHOD | ALDAZ CERVANTES, MAYELA RENATA | 2d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17911038 | ISOTROPIC, CRACK-FREE STEEL DESIGN USING AN ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING METHOD | ALDAZ CERVANTES, MAYELA RENATA | 2d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1733 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17911038 | ISOTROPIC, CRACK-FREE STEEL DESIGN USING AN ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING METHOD | ALDAZ CERVANTES, MAYELA RENATA | 1733 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 2d overdue | Pending | Sep 12, 2022 |
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