Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 8 patents granted in the last 365 days
Wuyi University currently has 2 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are split between 2 distinct examiners, ensuring that each examiner is managing a single case. The portfolio also spans multiple distinct art units, which matches the count of pending actions and examiners involved.
GERLA, STEPHANIE RAE is identified as the busiest examiner for the university, with 1 pending office action under review. Because there are 2 pending office actions in total, the action assigned to GERLA, STEPHANIE RAE accounts for a portion of the current workload. The alignment of distinct examiners and art units for the pending actions indicates a decentralized prosecution profile where each matter is handled by a different specialist in a different unit.
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 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GERLA, STEPHANIE RAE | 1 | 16.7% | +33.0% |
| MENON, KRISHNAN S | 1 | 59.7% | +11.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18694476 | PROCESSING METHOD FOR IMPROVING GLUCOSE ABSORPTION CAPACITY OF SEA RICE PUFFING POWDER AND USE OF SEA RICE PUFFING POWDER | GERLA, STEPHANIE RAE | — |
| 18577882 | DETECTION SYSTEM OF BIODEGRADATION REACTOR AND METHOD THEREOF | MENON, KRISHNAN S | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18694476 | PROCESSING METHOD FOR IMPROVING GLUCOSE ABSORPTION CAPACITY OF SEA RICE PUFFING POWDER AND USE OF SEA RICE PUFFING POWDER | GERLA, STEPHANIE RAE | — |
| 18577882 | DETECTION SYSTEM OF BIODEGRADATION REACTOR AND METHOD THEREOF | MENON, KRISHNAN S | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1791 | 1 |
| 1777 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18694476 | PROCESSING METHOD FOR IMPROVING GLUCOSE ABSORPTION CAPACITY OF SEA RICE PUFFING POWDER AND USE OF SEA RICE PUFFING POWDER | GERLA, STEPHANIE RAE | 1791 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 22, 2024 |
| 18577882 | DETECTION SYSTEM OF BIODEGRADATION REACTOR AND METHOD THEREOF | MENON, KRISHNAN S | 1777 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 09, 2024 |
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