Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Chemistry & Materials
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
UNIVERSITE DE LIMOGES currently has 2 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are distributed across 2 distinct examiners, which indicates that the portfolio's workload is not centralized under a single reviewer. This distribution across 2 distinct examiners requires the applicant to be prepared for different examination styles and technical perspectives.
The prosecution is occurring in 2 distinct art units, suggesting that the university's research in Chemistry & Materials may involve different specialized sub-fields. RICE, STEVEN is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently handling 1 pending office action. Since the busiest examiner only manages 1 pending office action, the current workload is evenly divided between the 2 distinct examiners involved.
For practitioners, the presence of 2 distinct art units means that the 2 pending office actions might follow different procedural paths or timelines. Because no single examiner or art unit dominates the current workload, the prosecution strategy must remain flexible to address the specific requirements of both RICE, STEVEN and the other assigned official. This balanced distribution ensures that the overall progress of the portfolio is not tied to the pace of just one individual.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (50%) |
| §103 only | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| RICE, STEVEN | 1 | 39.3% | +43.7% |
| BREEN, KIMBERLY CATHERINE | 1 | 23.8% | +56.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17917231 | RESEARCH INTO ANTIMICROBIAL RESISTANCE BY THE FIELD FLOW FRACTIONATION TECHNIQUE | BREEN, KIMBERLY CATHERINE | 43d |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17917231 | RESEARCH INTO ANTIMICROBIAL RESISTANCE BY THE FIELD FLOW FRACTIONATION TECHNIQUE | BREEN, KIMBERLY CATHERINE | 43d |
| 18558776 | NEW DEVICES FOR USE FOR TREATING CEREBRAL ANEURYSMS | RICE, STEVEN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1732 | 1 |
| 1657 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18558776 | NEW DEVICES FOR USE FOR TREATING CEREBRAL ANEURYSMS | RICE, STEVEN | 1732 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 03, 2023 |
| 17917231 | RESEARCH INTO ANTIMICROBIAL RESISTANCE BY THE FIELD FLOW FRACTIONATION TECHNIQUE | BREEN, KIMBERLY CATHERINE | 1657 | §101§103§112 | Final Rejection | 43d | Pending | Oct 05, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialUNIVERSITE DE LIMOGES has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Steven Rice has the most, with 1 of UNIVERSITE DE LIMOGES's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
