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
Virginia Tech Intellectual Properties currently manages 1 pending office action within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This activity is distributed across 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, showing a point of focus for the organization's current patent prosecution efforts.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is PATEL, DEVANG R, who is currently overseeing 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Because the total number of pending actions is 1, this examiner is handling the organization's active office action responses.
For patent practitioners, this data indicates a streamlined prosecution environment. The involvement of 1 distinct art unit suggests that the organization's current legal challenges are confined to a specific technical niche. With 1 pending office action, the portfolio requires minimal concurrent management of deadlines or examiner-specific negotiation strategies. The presence of 1 distinct examiner further simplifies the interaction with the patent office.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PATEL, DEVANG R | 1 | 65.6% | +39.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19145847 | SMALL-SCALE SOLID-STATE ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING TOOLS AND DESIGNS | PATEL, DEVANG R | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1735 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19145847 | SMALL-SCALE SOLID-STATE ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING TOOLS AND DESIGNS | PATEL, DEVANG R | 1735 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 03, 2025 |
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