Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
5 pending office actions • 5 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
UNIVERSITAET ULM currently manages 2 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These applications are being reviewed by 2 distinct examiners across 2 distinct art units. This spread indicates that the university's filings are diverse enough to trigger reviews from different technical departments.
WOODALL, NICHOLAS W is the busiest examiner for the university, with 1 pending office action currently assigned. Given that there are 2 pending office actions in total, the workload is shared among 2 distinct examiners. This means each examiner is responsible for 1 case, providing a varied perspective on the technology during the prosecution process.
The involvement of 2 distinct art units suggests that the university's intellectual property spans multiple classifications within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering field. With 2 pending office actions, the university maintains a steady but small volume of active prosecution. This data points to a portfolio that is beginning to diversify its technical footprint across 2 distinct examiners.
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 | 2 (40%) |
| §103 only | 2 (40%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (20%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WOODALL, NICHOLAS W | 1 | 82.0% | +13.3% |
| NICKOL, GARY B | 1 | 47.1% | +31.1% |
| CHANDRA, GYAN | 1 | 71.3% | +27.5% |
| BOESEN, CHRISTIAN C | 1 | 75.9% | +21.1% |
| RODRIGUEZ, RAYNA B | 1 | 33.6% | +19.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18689178 | RIGID, CURVED LARYNGOSCOPE | WOODALL, NICHOLAS W | 33d |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18274624 | METHOD AND MEANS FOR MODULATING B-CELL MEDIATED IMMUNE RESPONSES | NICKOL, GARY B | — |
| 18274605 | METHOD AND MEANS FOR MODULATING B-CELL MEDIATED IMMUNE RESPONSES | CHANDRA, GYAN | — |
| 17996457 | METHOD FOR PROVIDING A MEDICAMENT COMBINATION AND DATA CARRIER WITH SOFTWARE | BOESEN, CHRISTIAN C | — |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17255963 | NEW MOLECULAR TWEEZERS AGAINST NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS AND VIRAL INFECTIONS | RODRIGUEZ, RAYNA B | 29d overdue |
| 18689178 | RIGID, CURVED LARYNGOSCOPE | WOODALL, NICHOLAS W | 33d |
| 18274624 | METHOD AND MEANS FOR MODULATING B-CELL MEDIATED IMMUNE RESPONSES | NICKOL, GARY B | — |
| 18274605 | METHOD AND MEANS FOR MODULATING B-CELL MEDIATED IMMUNE RESPONSES | CHANDRA, GYAN | — |
| 17996457 | METHOD FOR PROVIDING A MEDICAMENT COMBINATION AND DATA CARRIER WITH SOFTWARE | BOESEN, CHRISTIAN C | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3775 | 1 |
| 1643 | 1 |
| 1674 | 1 |
| 1623 | 1 |
| 1628 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18689178 | RIGID, CURVED LARYNGOSCOPE | WOODALL, NICHOLAS W | 3775 | §103 | Final Rejection | 33d | Pending | Mar 05, 2024 |
| 18274624 | METHOD AND MEANS FOR MODULATING B-CELL MEDIATED IMMUNE RESPONSES | NICKOL, GARY B | 1643 | §101§102§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 27, 2023 |
| 18274605 | METHOD AND MEANS FOR MODULATING B-CELL MEDIATED IMMUNE RESPONSES | CHANDRA, GYAN | 1674 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 27, 2023 |
| 17996457 | METHOD FOR PROVIDING A MEDICAMENT COMBINATION AND DATA CARRIER WITH SOFTWARE | BOESEN, CHRISTIAN C | 1623 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 18, 2022 |
| 17255963 | NEW MOLECULAR TWEEZERS AGAINST NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS AND VIRAL INFECTIONS | RODRIGUEZ, RAYNA B | 1628 | §103 | Final Rejection | 29d overdue | Pending | Dec 23, 2020 |
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