Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Chemistry & Materials
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Aleph Farms Ltd. is navigating 2 pending office actions in the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. These actions are handled by 2 distinct examiners across 2 distinct art units. This indicates that each pending matter is being treated as a separate technical and administrative entity within the office, requiring the company to navigate different sets of procedures and technical standards. The presence of 2 pending office actions shows a focused effort in the biotechnology sector. For the applicant, this means that the prosecution of each application is independent of the other.
RAHMAN, MASUDUR is the busiest examiner with 1 busiest examiner pending action. Since there are 2 pending office actions in total, the workload is split between RAHMAN, MASUDUR and the other distinct examiner. Each examiner is responsible for 1 action in their respective art unit. For practitioners, this means that the prosecution strategy for the 2 pending office actions must be highly individualized. Because there are 2 distinct art units and 2 distinct examiners involved, there is no overlap in the personnel or administrative groups reviewing the company's applications. This lack of concentration requires a broad approach to managing the company's current patent matters, as the success of the 2 pending office actions depends on separate interactions.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (50%) |
| §103 only | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| RAHMAN, MASUDUR | 1 | 72.7% | +31.7% |
| MCGUIRK, JOHN SCHUYLER | 1 | 78.0% | +48.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18900613 | CULTURED MEAT COMPOSITIONS | RAHMAN, MASUDUR | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18251222 | A MULTI-SCAFFOLD SYSTEM FOR LARGE SCALE CULTIVATION OF CELLS | MCGUIRK, JOHN SCHUYLER | 12d |
| 18900613 | CULTURED MEAT COMPOSITIONS | RAHMAN, MASUDUR | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1633 | 1 |
| 1798 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18900613 | CULTURED MEAT COMPOSITIONS | RAHMAN, MASUDUR | 1633 | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 27, 2024 |
| 18251222 | A MULTI-SCAFFOLD SYSTEM FOR LARGE SCALE CULTIVATION OF CELLS | MCGUIRK, JOHN SCHUYLER | 1798 | §103 | Final Rejection | 12d | Pending | Apr 28, 2023 |
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