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
UNIVERSITE DE LIMOGES is active in the Chemistry & Materials technology area, where it currently has 1 pending office action. This single pending matter represents the current focus of the university's patent prosecution efforts. A portfolio with only 1 pending action typically indicates a very specific or controlled set of active applications within the patent office, which may reflect a selective approach to patenting academic research in the materials sector or a focus on a single key technological development.
The prosecution process is highly centralized, involving 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. NGUYEN, HENRY H is the busiest examiner for the university, currently overseeing 1 pending office action. Since this examiner is the only one currently reviewing the university's pending work, their individual examination style is the primary variable in the prosecution process. The involvement of only 1 distinct art unit suggests that the technical subject matter is concentrated within a specific chemical or materials niche. This allows for a streamlined legal strategy that addresses the specific technical standards of a single art unit and the preferences of one examiner, which can be an efficient way for a university to manage its intellectual property assets.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NGUYEN, HENRY H | 1 | 63.7% | +37.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18044833 | FLUORESCENT REPORTER AND USE THEREOF FOR THE DETECTION OF TARGET MOLECULES | NGUYEN, HENRY H | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18044833 | FLUORESCENT REPORTER AND USE THEREOF FOR THE DETECTION OF TARGET MOLECULES | NGUYEN, HENRY H | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1758 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18044833 | FLUORESCENT REPORTER AND USE THEREOF FOR THE DETECTION OF TARGET MOLECULES | NGUYEN, HENRY H | 1758 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 10, 2023 |
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