Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
UNIVERSITE DE STRASBOURG currently has 2 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These 2 actions are distributed across 2 distinct examiners, meaning each examiner is handling a separate matter. Furthermore, the actions are located in 2 distinct art units, indicating that the university's chemistry interests span different technical classifications. This distribution requires the applicant to monitor different examination styles simultaneously while maintaining a consistent overall strategy for the portfolio.
ESPERON, NATHAN GREGORY is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, currently managing 1 busiest examiner pending office action. The other pending action is handled by the other distinct examiner. This distribution across multiple art units and examiners suggests that the applicant must manage separate prosecution tracks, each potentially subject to different examiner preferences and art unit norms. Practitioners should be prepared to address the specific concerns of separate officials, even though the technical focus remains within the chemistry field. The presence of 2 distinct art units indicates that the applications are classified under different categories, each with its own set of prior art and examination standards.
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 |
|---|---|
| §112 only | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (67%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ESPERON, NATHAN GREGORY | 1 | 41.0% | +23.3% |
| YOO, SUN JAE | 1 | 71.2% | +0.3% |
| HULL, JAMES B | 1 | 45.4% | +52.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18690250 | METHOD FOR TREATING A PRODUCT CONTAINING ASBESTOS | ESPERON, NATHAN GREGORY | — |
| 18028053 | DEVICE FOR SIMULATING THE MOVEMENT OF AN ENDOSCOPE IN AN ENVIRONMENT | HULL, JAMES B | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18690250 | METHOD FOR TREATING A PRODUCT CONTAINING ASBESTOS | ESPERON, NATHAN GREGORY | — |
| 18028053 | DEVICE FOR SIMULATING THE MOVEMENT OF AN ENDOSCOPE IN AN ENVIRONMENT | HULL, JAMES B | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1799 | 1 |
| 1621 | 1 |
| 3715 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18690250 | METHOD FOR TREATING A PRODUCT CONTAINING ASBESTOS | ESPERON, NATHAN GREGORY | 1799 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 07, 2024 |
| 18581289 | PRECURSOR COMPOUNDS FOR PROVIDING RETINOIDS OF THE VATAMIN A5 PATHWAY AND USES THEREOF | YOO, SUN JAE | 1621 | §112Other | Final Rejection | 40d | Pending | Feb 19, 2024 |
| 18028053 | DEVICE FOR SIMULATING THE MOVEMENT OF AN ENDOSCOPE IN AN ENVIRONMENT | HULL, JAMES B | 3715 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 23, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialUNIVERSITE DE STRASBOURG has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 3 examiners.
Nathan Gregory Esperon has the most, with 1 of UNIVERSITE DE STRASBOURG's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
