Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals
4 pending office actions • 2 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Asymchem Laboratories (Tianjin) Co., Ltd. is currently active in the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area with 4 pending office actions. These actions are distributed among 4 distinct examiners, meaning that each pending matter is being reviewed by a different individual. This distribution requires the company to manage multiple simultaneous dialogues with the USPTO, each potentially having its own unique procedural or technical focus. A diversified approach is necessary to address the varying expectations of 4 different examiners.
The company's active filings are located within 2 distinct art units, indicating that their intellectual property covers different specialized areas within the broader biotechnology field. LOUNTOS, GEORGE THEMISTOCLIS is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, holding 1 busiest examiner pending action. The presence of 4 pending office actions across 2 distinct art units and 4 distinct examiners suggests a complex prosecution workload. Practitioners must coordinate their efforts to ensure that the technical arguments remain consistent across different examiners while also addressing the specific requirements of each specialized art unit.
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 (25%) |
| §103 only | 1 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LOUNTOS, GEORGE THEMISTOCLIS | 1 | 57.1% | +60.0% |
| RAGHU, GANAPATHIRAM | 1 | 73.6% | +26.4% |
| MEAH, MOHAMMAD Y | 1 | 70.8% | +42.7% |
| CHENG, KAREN | 1 | 76.3% | +26.7% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18696632 | TRANSAMINASE MUTANT AND APPLICATION THEREOF | RAGHU, GANAPATHIRAM | 42d |
| 18707998 | TRANSAMINASE MUTANT AND USE THEREOF | LOUNTOS, GEORGE THEMISTOCLIS | — |
| 18562913 | PREPARATION METHOD FOR POLYPEPTIDE | MEAH, MOHAMMAD Y | — |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18696632 | TRANSAMINASE MUTANT AND APPLICATION THEREOF | RAGHU, GANAPATHIRAM | 42d |
| 18707998 | TRANSAMINASE MUTANT AND USE THEREOF | LOUNTOS, GEORGE THEMISTOCLIS | — |
| 18562913 | PREPARATION METHOD FOR POLYPEPTIDE | MEAH, MOHAMMAD Y | — |
| 17772660 | Continuous synthesis method for ethoxymethylenemalononitrile | CHENG, KAREN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1652 | 2 |
| 1623 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18707998 | TRANSAMINASE MUTANT AND USE THEREOF | LOUNTOS, GEORGE THEMISTOCLIS | 1652 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 07, 2024 |
| 18696632 | TRANSAMINASE MUTANT AND APPLICATION THEREOF | RAGHU, GANAPATHIRAM | 1652 | §101§102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 42d | Pending | Mar 28, 2024 |
| 18562913 | PREPARATION METHOD FOR POLYPEPTIDE | MEAH, MOHAMMAD Y | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 21, 2023 |
| 17772660 | Continuous synthesis method for ethoxymethylenemalononitrile | CHENG, KAREN | 1623 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 28, 2022 |
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