Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 01, 2026

Arturo Santos

Technology area: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals

1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready

Analysis

The Arturo Santos portfolio currently includes 1 pending office action in the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. This matter is being reviewed by 1 distinct examiner, which indicates a centralized prosecution process for the entity's current intellectual property. The application is assigned to 1 distinct art unit, reflecting a specific technical focus for the pending innovation within the biotechnology field.

FAY, ZOHREH ALEMZADEH is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, overseeing 1 busiest examiner pending office action. This individual is responsible for the 1 busiest examiner pending office action currently active. Consequently, the immediate prosecution success for Arturo Santos is entirely dependent on the decisions and timelines of this 1 distinct examiner within the 1 distinct art unit.

For a patent practitioner, this concentration means that the prosecution strategy should be highly tailored to the specific tendencies of FAY, ZOHREH ALEMZADEH. Since there is only 1 distinct art unit involved, there is no opportunity to compare examination styles across different units for this portfolio. The singular nature of the matters in the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area simplifies the management of the portfolio but increases the impact of a single examiner's perspective.

Written from this page's own data; every figure is computed from USPTO records and verified before publication.

Portfolio Summary

1
Total Pending OAs
0
Non-Final OAs
1
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Case Difficulty Mix

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.

0
Hard (0%)
1
Medium (100%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
Double-patenting + other1 (100%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

1
Life Sciences
100% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
0
Mechanical / Eng
0% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

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.

10 h
Manual time on pending OAs
2 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
4 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.1 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
FAY, ZOHREH ALEMZADEH 1 52.2% -6.2%

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1617 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18010099 TRIAMCINOLONE ACETONIDE-LOADED LIPOSOMES TOPICAL OPHTHALMIC FORMULATIONS AS PRIMARY THERAPY FOR MACULAR EDEMA SECONDARY TO BRANCH RETINAL VEIN OCCLUSION FAY, ZOHREH ALEMZADEH 1617 §103DP Final Rejection — Pending Dec 13, 2022

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