Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Austin Research Labs Corp. maintains a patent portfolio concentrated in the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. There is currently 1 pending office action across the entire portfolio. This single action is distributed across 1 distinct art unit, reflecting a specific technical focus for the company's current intellectual property efforts. Such a footprint suggests that the company is pursuing a particular niche within the biotechnology sector.
The prosecution is managed by 1 distinct examiner, BAUER, NICOLA MARIA. As the busiest examiner for the company, BAUER, NICOLA MARIA is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending office action. This alignment between the total pending actions and the busiest examiner's workload confirms that current prosecution activity is consolidated under one individual. For the practitioner, this means that the success of the current portfolio rests on navigating the requirements of this single examiner within the designated art unit. The lack of examiner diversity in the portfolio simplifies the tracking of examiner specific trends.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BAUER, NICOLA MARIA | 1 | 58.3% | +50.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17423198 | HIGH LOAD DISPERSIONS AND USES THEREOF | BAUER, NICOLA MARIA | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1621 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17423198 | HIGH LOAD DISPERSIONS AND USES THEREOF | BAUER, NICOLA MARIA | 1621 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 15, 2021 |
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