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 • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Abk Biomedical Incorporated has 1 pending office action within the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. The company's active prosecution is limited to 1 distinct examiner and art unit. Nissa M. Westerberg is the busiest examiner, overseeing the pending office action.
The portfolio's current activity is centralized, with the 1 pending office action assigned to a single examiner. This indicates that the company's current biotechnology patent strategy is focused on the specific requirements of the art unit and the examination of Nissa M. Westerberg.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WESTERBERG, NISSA M | 1 | 23.4% | +37.1% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17602205 | RADIOPAQUE GLASS MATERIAL | WESTERBERG, NISSA M | 126d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17602205 | RADIOPAQUE GLASS MATERIAL | WESTERBERG, NISSA M | 126d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1618 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17602205 | RADIOPAQUE GLASS MATERIAL | WESTERBERG, NISSA M | 1618 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 126d overdue | Pending | Oct 07, 2021 |
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