Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 9 patents granted in the last 365 days
Azenta US, Inc. currently has 2 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These matters are assigned to distinct examiners. The examiners are located within 1 distinct art unit, indicating a centralized technical review process despite the involvement of different individuals. The busiest examiner for the portfolio is BROTHERS, LAURENCE RAPHAEL, who is responsible for 1 pending office action.
Since the 2 pending office actions are handled by different individuals within the same unit, the company may encounter consistent internal policies or supervisory oversight while dealing with different primary contacts. This concentration in the unit simplifies the administrative burden of tracking unit-specific practices while managing the matters. The examiners must each be engaged individually, but the shared art unit provides a common ground for the prosecution. This structure allows the company to focus its Chemistry & Materials strategy within a single technical department.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BROTHERS, LAURENCE RAPHAEL | 1 | 88.8% | +16.2% |
| GZYBOWSKI, MICHAEL STANLEY | 1 | 68.3% | +52.0% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18668006 | Large-Scale Biological Sample Storage | BROTHERS, LAURENCE RAPHAEL | — |
| 18459792 | TUBE CAP AND TUBE INCLUDING THE TUBE CAP | GZYBOWSKI, MICHAEL STANLEY | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18668006 | Large-Scale Biological Sample Storage | BROTHERS, LAURENCE RAPHAEL | — |
| 18459792 | TUBE CAP AND TUBE INCLUDING THE TUBE CAP | GZYBOWSKI, MICHAEL STANLEY | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1798 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18668006 | Large-Scale Biological Sample Storage | BROTHERS, LAURENCE RAPHAEL | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 17, 2024 |
| 18459792 | TUBE CAP AND TUBE INCLUDING THE TUBE CAP | GZYBOWSKI, MICHAEL STANLEY | 1798 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 01, 2023 |
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