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 Food Diagnostics, Inc. has 1 pending office action in the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. This action is being reviewed in 1 distinct art unit, indicating a focused prosecution effort within a specific technical domain. The company is working with 1 distinct examiner, BREEN, KIMBERLY CATHERINE, who is responsible for the pending work. This concentration in 1 distinct art unit allows for a specialized legal approach tailored to specific technical standards.
BREEN, KIMBERLY CATHERINE is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, managing 1 pending office action. As there is only 1 pending office action total, this examiner is the sole point of contact for the company's current pending matters. The concentration under 1 distinct examiner simplifies the prosecution landscape. Practitioners can focus their resources on the specific examination style and technical requirements of BREEN, KIMBERLY CATHERINE to move the application toward allowance.
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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BREEN, KIMBERLY CATHERINE | 1 | 23.8% | +56.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18176270 | METHODS AND KITS FOR DETECTING CROSS-CONTAMINATION IN FOODBORNE AND ENVIRONMENTAL PATHOGEN TESTING | BREEN, KIMBERLY CATHERINE | 26d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18176270 | METHODS AND KITS FOR DETECTING CROSS-CONTAMINATION IN FOODBORNE AND ENVIRONMENTAL PATHOGEN TESTING | BREEN, KIMBERLY CATHERINE | 26d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1657 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18176270 | METHODS AND KITS FOR DETECTING CROSS-CONTAMINATION IN FOODBORNE AND ENVIRONMENTAL PATHOGEN TESTING | BREEN, KIMBERLY CATHERINE | 1657 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 26d overdue | Pending | Feb 28, 2023 |
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