Technology area: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Aratinga Bio Tnp maintains a focused prosecution presence in the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. There is 1 pending office action currently active, which is assigned to 1 distinct art unit. This indicates a specific technical niche for the company's current filings.
LANKFORD JR, LEON B is the 1 distinct examiner for this portfolio and holds the 1 busiest examiner pending action. Since all prosecution activity is funneled through a single examiner, the review process is highly centralized. This structure places the entirety of the current docket under the discretion of one individual.
For practitioners, the primary challenge is the lack of examiner variety, which means there are no alternative paths for the current docket. Every effort must be made to align the response with the specific expectations of the assigned examiner. The outcome of this single pending action will define the entity's current patenting trajectory.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LANKFORD JR, LEON B | 1 | 70.0% | +31.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16962686 | Polymer-Encapsulated Viral Vectors for Genetic Therapy | LANKFORD JR, LEON B | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1657 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16962686 | Polymer-Encapsulated Viral Vectors for Genetic Therapy | LANKFORD JR, LEON B | 1657 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 16, 2020 |
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Start Free TrialAratinga Bio Tnp has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Leon B Lankford Jr. has the most, with 1 of Aratinga Bio Tnp's pending office actions.
Mostly Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals (USPTO Tech Center 1600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
