Technology area: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Argonaut Manufacturing Services, Inc. has 1 pending office action in Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals. The record identifies 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. MONTGOMERY, ANN Y is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. The profile presents one concentrated examination assignment for the company’s biotechnology and pharmaceutical manufacturing subject matter.
Counsel should frame the response around the examiner’s stated concerns and the application’s disclosure of the relevant manufacturing features. Amendments should address the cited art while retaining commercially useful scope and clear support. Since the profile shows one examiner and one art unit, practitioners can maintain a consistent explanation of the process or product throughout the pending response and subsequent examination.
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 |
|---|---|
| §112 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MONTGOMERY, ANN Y | 1 | 69.1% | +27.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18177085 | DEVICES THAT INCLUDE A DRIED REAGENT:SUBSTRATE COMPLEX AND METHODS FOR GENERATING SUCH COMPLEXES AND DEVICES | MONTGOMERY, ANN Y | 42d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1678 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18177085 | DEVICES THAT INCLUDE A DRIED REAGENT:SUBSTRATE COMPLEX AND METHODS FOR GENERATING SUCH COMPLEXES AND DEVICES | MONTGOMERY, ANN Y | 1678 | §112 | Final Rejection | 42d | Pending | Mar 01, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialArgonaut Manufacturing Services, Inc. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Ann Y Montgomery has the most, with 1 of Argonaut Manufacturing Services, Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals (USPTO Tech Center 1600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
