Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Association Institut De Myologie currently manages 2 pending office actions within the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. These 2 pending office actions are distributed across 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. This distribution shows that the institute's active matters are being handled by different officials and administrative groups within the same technical field.
The busiest examiner for the institute is WESTON, ALYSSA G, who is currently responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending office action. While the total number of pending office actions is higher than this individual's workload, the cases are split among the distinct examiners. This indicates that the institute is experiencing multiple examination styles within the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals sector.
For patent practitioners, the presence of the 2 distinct art units requires a strategy that can adapt to different unit-specific standards. Although the busiest examiner only handles 1 busiest examiner pending office action, the overall activity is spread across multiple officials. This requires a distributed approach to ensure that the specific requirements of each examiner and art unit are addressed across the active cases.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (50%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WESTON, ALYSSA G | 1 | 59.5% | +49.0% |
| KIM, SAMUEL CHONG | 1 | 49.2% | +69.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17753383 | METHOD, DEVICE AND APPARATUS FOR MEASURING SEGMENTAL MUSCLE VOLUME | KIM, SAMUEL CHONG | 22d |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17753383 | METHOD, DEVICE AND APPARATUS FOR MEASURING SEGMENTAL MUSCLE VOLUME | KIM, SAMUEL CHONG | 22d |
| 18735636 | Hybrid Recombinant Adeno-Associated Virus Serotype Between AAV9 and AAVrh74 with Reduced Liver Tropism | WESTON, ALYSSA G | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1633 | 1 |
| 3791 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18735636 | Hybrid Recombinant Adeno-Associated Virus Serotype Between AAV9 and AAVrh74 with Reduced Liver Tropism | WESTON, ALYSSA G | 1633 | §102§103§112DPOther | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 06, 2024 |
| 17753383 | METHOD, DEVICE AND APPARATUS FOR MEASURING SEGMENTAL MUSCLE VOLUME | KIM, SAMUEL CHONG | 3791 | §101§112 | Final Rejection | 22d | Pending | Mar 01, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialAssociation Institut De Myologie has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Alyssa G Weston has the most, with 1 of Association Institut De Myologie's pending office actions.
Mostly Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals (USPTO Tech Center 1600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
