Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Computing & Software
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Atlas Data Storage, Inc. currently has 3 pending office actions within its company patent portfolio, specifically in the Computing & Software technology area. These 3 pending actions are distributed across 2 distinct art units, suggesting that the company's data storage innovations fall into two primary technical categories at the patent office. This distribution requires the company to manage its prosecution strategy across 2 distinct art units.
The workload is handled by 3 distinct examiners, which matches the total number of 3 pending office actions. This means each active application is being reviewed by a different individual, providing a variety of perspectives on the company's software claims. BRADEN, GRACE VICTORIA is the busiest examiner for Atlas Data Storage, Inc., currently overseeing 1 pending office action.
The 3 pending office actions represent the current active pipeline for Atlas Data Storage, Inc. in the Computing & Software sector. With 3 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units involved, the prosecution landscape is relatively diverse for a portfolio of this size. BRADEN, GRACE VICTORIA, as the busiest examiner with 1 pending action, is one of the key figures in the company's ongoing efforts to secure patent protection.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 1 (33%) |
| §112 only | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BRADEN, GRACE VICTORIA | 1 | 91.9% | +11.1% |
| BOYER, RANDY | 1 | 70.4% | +8.2% |
| LU, FRANK WEI MIN | 1 | 62.7% | +67.7% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18858085 | CODECS FOR DNA DATA STORAGE | BRADEN, GRACE VICTORIA | 30d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18345869 | HEATED NANOWELLS FOR POLYNUCLEOTIDE SYNTHESIS | BOYER, RANDY | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18858085 | CODECS FOR DNA DATA STORAGE | BRADEN, GRACE VICTORIA | 30d overdue |
| 17938234 | NUCLEIC ACID BASED DATA STORAGE | LU, FRANK WEI MIN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2112 | 1 |
| 1683 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18858085 | CODECS FOR DNA DATA STORAGE | BRADEN, GRACE VICTORIA | 2112 | §103 | Final Rejection | 30d overdue | Pending | Oct 18, 2024 |
| 18345869 | HEATED NANOWELLS FOR POLYNUCLEOTIDE SYNTHESIS | BOYER, RANDY | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 30, 2023 |
| 17938234 | NUCLEIC ACID BASED DATA STORAGE | LU, FRANK WEI MIN | 1683 | §112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 05, 2022 |
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