Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 04, 2026

Akron BioProducts LLC

Technology area: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals

2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready

Analysis

Akron BioProducts LLC is currently navigating 2 pending office actions within the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. These actions are handled by 2 distinct examiners, ensuring that no single examiner is responsible for the company's entire current workload. Furthermore, the portfolio is spread across 2 distinct art units, reflecting a range of technical classifications within their biotechnology filings.

ABBAS, SYED JARAR serves as the busiest examiner for the portfolio, holding 1 pending action. This figure matches the workload of the other examiner, as the 2 pending actions are split evenly between the 2 distinct examiners. The presence of 2 distinct art units suggests that the company's intellectual property strategy involves different biological or pharmaceutical sub-categories, requiring the legal team to adapt to the specific standards of 2 different administrative groups. This distribution means that the outcome of the 2 pending actions will depend on the unique perspectives of 2 different examiners.

Written from this page's own data; every figure is computed from USPTO records and verified before publication.

Portfolio Summary

2
Total Pending OAs
1
Non-Final OAs
1
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

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.

1
Overdue
0
Due this week
0
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
0
Due later

Case Difficulty Mix

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.

1
Hard (50%)
1
Medium (50%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
Double-patenting + other1 (50%)
Multi-statute (no §101)1 (50%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

2
Life Sciences
100% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
0
Mechanical / Eng
0% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

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.

20 h
Manual time on pending OAs
4 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
7 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.2 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
ABBAS, SYED JARAR 1 0.0% +0.0%
ZHU, JIANJIAN 1 58.8% +82.4%

Hard Cases (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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18519193 THERAPEUTICALLY ACTIVE ALDESLEUKIN HIGHLY STABLE IN LIQUID PHARMACEUTICAL COMPOSITIONS ABBAS, SYED JARAR —

Interview Candidates (1)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
16968414 PRESERVATION AND CRYOPRESERVATION MEDIA ZHU, JIANJIAN 71d overdue

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1674 1
1631 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18519193 THERAPEUTICALLY ACTIVE ALDESLEUKIN HIGHLY STABLE IN LIQUID PHARMACEUTICAL COMPOSITIONS ABBAS, SYED JARAR 1674 §102§112Other Non-Final OA — Pending Nov 27, 2023
16968414 PRESERVATION AND CRYOPRESERVATION MEDIA ZHU, JIANJIAN 1631 §102§103§112DP Final Rejection 71d overdue Pending Aug 07, 2020

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