Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals
4 pending office actions • 4 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
A2 Biotherapeutics, Inc. is currently addressing 4 pending office actions within the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. The workload is distributed across 4 distinct examiners and 4 distinct art units, which reflects a broad administrative spread for the pending matters. Each of the 4 pending office actions is being handled by a different examiner, requiring the company to manage multiple distinct prosecution styles and art unit preferences at once. This decentralized structure suggests that the company's current patent applications cover a variety of specific biotechnological sub-fields.
The busiest examiner for the portfolio is PAULUS, ERIN VIRGINIA, who is assigned 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Since there are 4 distinct examiners for the 4 total actions, the workload is distributed among the examiners. Managing 4 distinct art units requires a coordinated effort to ensure consistency across the portfolio while responding to the unique technical challenges presented by each unit. The presence of multiple examiners means that the prosecution strategy must be highly individualized for each of the pending office actions.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 | 2 (50%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (25%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PAULUS, ERIN VIRGINIA | 1 | 21.1% | +93.8% |
| CANELLA, KAREN A | 1 | 62.2% | +32.8% |
| SPENCE, JENNIFER SUZANNE | 1 | 66.9% | +46.0% |
| TIWARI, VYOMA SHUBHAM | 1 | 31.5% | +48.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18062873 | COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR TREATING MESOTHELIN POSITIVE CANCERS | SPENCE, JENNIFER SUZANNE | 86d overdue |
| 18340435 | COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR TREATING HER2 POSITIVE CANCERS | PAULUS, ERIN VIRGINIA | — |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18062873 | COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR TREATING MESOTHELIN POSITIVE CANCERS | SPENCE, JENNIFER SUZANNE | 86d overdue |
| 18165623 | COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR TREATING EGFR POSITIVE CANCERS | CANELLA, KAREN A | 46d overdue |
| 17480501 | CONTROLLING PROXIMITY OF IMMUNE CELL RECEPTORS | TIWARI, VYOMA SHUBHAM | 22d |
| 18340435 | COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR TREATING HER2 POSITIVE CANCERS | PAULUS, ERIN VIRGINIA | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1631 | 1 |
| 1643 | 1 |
| 1633 | 1 |
| 1634 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18340435 | COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR TREATING HER2 POSITIVE CANCERS | PAULUS, ERIN VIRGINIA | 1631 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 23, 2023 |
| 18165623 | COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR TREATING EGFR POSITIVE CANCERS | CANELLA, KAREN A | 1643 | §102§103§112DP | Final Rejection | 46d overdue | Pending | Feb 07, 2023 |
| 18062873 | COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR TREATING MESOTHELIN POSITIVE CANCERS | SPENCE, JENNIFER SUZANNE | 1633 | §103§112Other | Final Rejection | 86d overdue | Pending | Dec 07, 2022 |
| 17480501 | CONTROLLING PROXIMITY OF IMMUNE CELL RECEPTORS | TIWARI, VYOMA SHUBHAM | 1634 | §112 | Non-Final OA | 22d | Pending | Sep 21, 2021 |
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