Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Abcentra LLC operates within the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area and currently has 1 pending office action. This 1 pending office action represents the current focus of the company's patent prosecution efforts. A portfolio with this level of activity often indicates a specific stage of intellectual property development in the biotech sector.
The portfolio's examination is concentrated, involving 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. By being limited to 1 distinct art unit, the company's current filings are subject to the specific examination standards of a single technical group. This centralization can lead to a more predictable prosecution experience as the applicant deals with the 1 distinct art unit and its associated examiner.
FONTAINHAS, AURORA M is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, currently overseeing 1 busiest examiner pending office action. As there is 1 pending office action in total, this examiner manages the company's active patent review. The 1 busiest examiner pending office action highlights a prosecution strategy that is currently focused on a single point of contact at the patent office, specifically the 1 distinct examiner.
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 |
|---|---|
| §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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FONTAINHAS, AURORA M | 1 | 37.9% | +49.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17257055 | COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR REDUCTION OF LIPOPROTEIN A FORMATION AND TREATMENT OF AORTIC VALVE SCLEROSIS AND AORTIC STENOSIS | FONTAINHAS, AURORA M | 22d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1675 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17257055 | COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR REDUCTION OF LIPOPROTEIN A FORMATION AND TREATMENT OF AORTIC VALVE SCLEROSIS AND AORTIC STENOSIS | FONTAINHAS, AURORA M | 1675 | §103 | Final Rejection | 22d | Pending | Dec 30, 2020 |
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