Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
Amneal Pharmaceuticals LLC currently manages 2 pending office actions within the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. These 2 pending office actions are distributed across 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. This distribution shows that the company's active matters are being handled by different officials and administrative groups within the same technical field.
The busiest examiner for the company is BAUER, BRIANNA LEE, who is currently responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending office action. While the total number of pending office actions is higher than this individual's workload, the cases are split among the distinct examiners. This indicates that the company is experiencing multiple examination styles within the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals sector.
For patent practitioners, the presence of the 2 distinct art units requires a strategy that can adapt to different unit-specific standards. Although the busiest examiner only handles 1 busiest examiner pending office action, the overall activity is spread across multiple officials. This requires a distributed approach to ensure that the specific requirements of each examiner and art unit are addressed across the active cases.
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 |
|---|---|
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BAUER, BRIANNA LEE | 1 | 66.7% | +0.0% |
| SHAH, NILAY J | 1 | 76.3% | +46.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18240029 | REFILL KIT FOR IMPLANTABLE PUMP | SHAH, NILAY J | 16d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18240029 | REFILL KIT FOR IMPLANTABLE PUMP | SHAH, NILAY J | 16d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1623 | 1 |
| 3783 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18717086 | COMPOUNDS FOR THE TREATMENT OF CANCER | BAUER, BRIANNA LEE | 1623 | §103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 06, 2024 |
| 18240029 | REFILL KIT FOR IMPLANTABLE PUMP | SHAH, NILAY J | 3783 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 16d | Pending | Aug 30, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialAmneal Pharmaceuticals LLC has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Brianna Lee Bauer has the most, with 1 of Amneal Pharmaceuticals LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals (USPTO Tech Center 1600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
