Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
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
Université De Liège currently has 2 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are split between 2 distinct examiners. The portfolio is also divided across 2 distinct art units, meaning each action is being processed by a different technical group. This distribution across 2 distinct art units suggests that the university's innovations cover multiple specialized sub-fields within chemistry.
RIETH, STEPHEN EDWARD is the busiest examiner, with 1 busiest examiner pending office action. This accounts for one of the 2 pending office actions. With 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units, the university's current prosecution activity is fully distributed across the office's examination structure. Practitioners should monitor the different art units to ensure that the prosecution of the 2 pending office actions remains consistent despite the lack of centralized oversight.
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) | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| RIETH, STEPHEN EDWARD | 1 | 45.8% | +32.9% |
| SULLIVAN, STEPHANIE LAUREN | 1 | 58.1% | +40.9% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17904641 | DEPLETION OF EXT1 EXPRESSION AND/OR ACTIVITY IMPROVES CELLULAR PRODUCTION OF BIOLOGICAL ENTITIES | SULLIVAN, STEPHANIE LAUREN | 67d overdue |
| 18240579 | Self-blowing isocyanate-free polyurethane foams | RIETH, STEPHEN EDWARD | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17904641 | DEPLETION OF EXT1 EXPRESSION AND/OR ACTIVITY IMPROVES CELLULAR PRODUCTION OF BIOLOGICAL ENTITIES | SULLIVAN, STEPHANIE LAUREN | 67d overdue |
| 18240579 | Self-blowing isocyanate-free polyurethane foams | RIETH, STEPHEN EDWARD | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1759 | 1 |
| 1635 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18240579 | Self-blowing isocyanate-free polyurethane foams | RIETH, STEPHEN EDWARD | 1759 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 31, 2023 |
| 17904641 | DEPLETION OF EXT1 EXPRESSION AND/OR ACTIVITY IMPROVES CELLULAR PRODUCTION OF BIOLOGICAL ENTITIES | SULLIVAN, STEPHANIE LAUREN | 1635 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 67d overdue | Pending | Aug 19, 2022 |
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