Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Chemistry & Materials • Communications
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 7 patents granted in the last 365 days
Waseda University currently manages 3 pending office actions within the Communications technology area. These matters are distributed across 3 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units. This indicates that every pending action is being handled by a different examiner in a different administrative group. The fact that these 3 examiners are located in 3 distinct art units means there is no overlap in the administrative oversight of these matters.
The busiest examiner for the university is BOGGS JR., JAMES, who handles 1 pending office action. Since there are 3 pending office actions and 3 distinct examiners, each examiner is responsible for exactly one case. Practitioners must coordinate with three separate examiners across three different units, which may lead to varying examination experiences for each of the company's active Communications applications. This decentralized structure requires managing three distinct perspectives on the university's technology. The presence of 3 pending office actions reflects a small but active engagement with the patent office across multiple specialized groups.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 (33%) |
| §103 only | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BOGGS JR., JAMES | 1 | 62.6% | +34.3% |
| SHEWAREGED, BETELHEM | 1 | 71.6% | +9.2% |
| WESTON, ALYSSA G | 1 | 59.8% | +50.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18565425 | DUAL-LAYER CULTURE SUBSTRATE | WESTON, ALYSSA G | 20d |
| 18895299 | INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE | BOGGS JR., JAMES | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18565425 | DUAL-LAYER CULTURE SUBSTRATE | WESTON, ALYSSA G | 20d |
| 18895299 | INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE | BOGGS JR., JAMES | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2657 | 1 |
| 1785 | 1 |
| 1633 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18895299 | INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE | BOGGS JR., JAMES | 2657 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 24, 2024 |
| 18709144 | SELF-SUPPORTING FILM, LAMINATED SHEET, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SELF-SUPPORTING FILM | SHEWAREGED, BETELHEM | 1785 | §103 | Final Rejection | 28d | Pending | May 10, 2024 |
| 18565425 | DUAL-LAYER CULTURE SUBSTRATE | WESTON, ALYSSA G | 1633 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 20d | Pending | Nov 29, 2023 |
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