Technology area: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Adelis is currently managing 1 pending office action in the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. This single action is being handled by 1 distinct examiner, LU, FRANK WEI MIN, who is identified as the busiest examiner for the company. The involvement of 1 distinct art unit indicates a very specific technical focus for the current prosecution.
LU, FRANK WEI MIN is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending action, which matches the total count of 1 pending office action for the portfolio. This concentration suggests that the company's intellectual property efforts are currently focused on a single technical challenge within Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals. The 1 distinct art unit involved confirms that the work is not distributed across different USPTO departments.
For a practitioner, the primary task is to address the specific concerns of LU, FRANK WEI MIN regarding the 1 busiest examiner pending action. Because there is only 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, the prosecution process is highly streamlined. The outcome of this 1 pending office action will determine the immediate success of the company's current patenting strategy.
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 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LU, FRANK WEI MIN | 1 | 62.7% | +67.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18697742 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR DESALTING AND CONCENTRATING OR ANALYSING A SAMPLE OF NUCLEIC ACIDS | LU, FRANK WEI MIN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1683 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18697742 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR DESALTING AND CONCENTRATING OR ANALYSING A SAMPLE OF NUCLEIC ACIDS | LU, FRANK WEI MIN | 1683 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 02, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialAdelis has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Frank Wei Min Lu has the most, with 1 of Adelis's pending office actions.
Mostly Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals (USPTO Tech Center 1600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
