Technology area: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals
4 pending office actions • 4 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
BAKEL S.R.L. is currently navigating 6 pending office actions in the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. These actions are spread across 5 distinct examiners and 5 distinct art units, reflecting a complex and decentralized prosecution landscape. With 5 distinct examiners involved, the company must manage a variety of different examination styles and procedural requirements across its active filings. The requirement to interact with the various art units suggests that the company's Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals innovations span several different technical niches, necessitating a highly adaptable legal strategy.
EDMUND H LEE is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, overseeing 2 pending office actions. This concentration of 2 of the 6 pending office actions under this individual offers a slight consolidation of effort compared to the rest of the portfolio. The overall prosecution effort remains decentralized across the various examiners. The company can leverage its experience with the 5 distinct art units to better anticipate the types of rejections or requirements that might arise, while focusing on the specific nuances of the 2 pending office actions assigned to the busiest examiner.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 | 2 (50%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WAX, ROBERT A | 1 | 25.7% | +3.9% |
| ISNOR, ALEXANDRA NICOLE | 1 | 26.1% | +26.2% |
| PEEBLES, KATHERINE | 1 | 35.6% | +48.0% |
| ARMSTRONG, SUSANNAH SIPPLE | 1 | 30.0% | +53.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17798014 | PATCH PRODUCT BASED ON NATURAL POLYMERS | WAX, ROBERT A | 49d overdue |
| 17798028 | NATURAL COMPOSITION BASED ON POLYMERS TO BE ELECTROSPUN, AND METHOD TO PREPARE THE SAME | ISNOR, ALEXANDRA NICOLE | 27d |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17798019 | COSMETIC PRODUCT | PEEBLES, KATHERINE | 18d overdue |
| 17798029 | COMPOSITION FOR ELECTROSPINNING | ARMSTRONG, SUSANNAH SIPPLE | 4d overdue |
| 17798028 | NATURAL COMPOSITION BASED ON POLYMERS TO BE ELECTROSPUN, AND METHOD TO PREPARE THE SAME | ISNOR, ALEXANDRA NICOLE | 27d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1615 | 1 |
| 1611 | 1 |
| 1617 | 1 |
| 1616 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17798014 | PATCH PRODUCT BASED ON NATURAL POLYMERS | WAX, ROBERT A | 1615 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 49d overdue | Pending | Aug 05, 2022 |
| 17798028 | NATURAL COMPOSITION BASED ON POLYMERS TO BE ELECTROSPUN, AND METHOD TO PREPARE THE SAME | ISNOR, ALEXANDRA NICOLE | 1611 | §103Other | Final Rejection | 27d | Pending | Aug 05, 2022 |
| 17798019 | COSMETIC PRODUCT | PEEBLES, KATHERINE | 1617 | §103DP | Final Rejection | 18d overdue | Pending | Aug 05, 2022 |
| 17798029 | COMPOSITION FOR ELECTROSPINNING | ARMSTRONG, SUSANNAH SIPPLE | 1616 | §102§103DP | Final Rejection | 4d overdue | Pending | Aug 05, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialBAKEL S.R.L. has 4 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 4 art units and 4 examiners.
Robert A Wax has the most, with 1 of BAKEL S.R.L.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals (USPTO Tech Center 1600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
