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
Applied Biocode Inc. currently has 1 pending office action within the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. This matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, TURPIN, ZACHARY MARK, who is also the busiest examiner for the company. The presence of a single pending office action indicates a focused prosecution stage. Since the portfolio is currently managed by 1 distinct examiner, the company's success in this technology area depends on addressing the specific concerns of this individual.
The portfolio is concentrated in 1 distinct art unit, which aligns with the single pending office action in Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals. With TURPIN, ZACHARY MARK handling the 1 pending office action, there is no diversification across different art units or examiners at this time. The alignment of the pending workload with 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit suggests a very specific technical and procedural path for the company's current intellectual property. Practitioners should tailor their approach to the specific requirements of the assigned examiner.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TURPIN, ZACHARY MARK | 1 | 4.0% | -5.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18225479 | Method for Dynamic Range Expansion for Multiplex Assays | TURPIN, ZACHARY MARK | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1682 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18225479 | Method for Dynamic Range Expansion for Multiplex Assays | TURPIN, ZACHARY MARK | 1682 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 24, 2023 |
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