Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
BATTELLE MEMORIAL INSTITUTE has 2 pending office actions in the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. Both of these matters are assigned to 1 distinct examiner and are being processed within 1 distinct art unit. This concentration indicates that the company's current patent filings are technically similar enough to be grouped together under a single reviewer and administrative unit. Such a focused prosecution profile allows for a consistent legal approach across the pending applications within the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals sector.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is JOHNSON, DANIELLE D, who is managing 2 pending office actions. Because there are 2 pending office actions in total, this single examiner is responsible for the entire active workload. The 1 distinct art unit and 1 distinct examiner assigned to these matters suggest that the outcomes for the company's current filings are highly dependent on the interpretations and requirements of this specific examiner. This lack of distribution across different art units simplifies the monitoring of the company's patent strategy.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| JOHNSON, DANIELLE D | 2 | 45.0% | +12.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18299317 | AGROCHEMICAL COMPOSITION | JOHNSON, DANIELLE D | 72d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18299317 | AGROCHEMICAL COMPOSITION | JOHNSON, DANIELLE D | 72d overdue |
| 17416266 | AGROCHEMICAL COMPOSITION | JOHNSON, DANIELLE D | 3d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1617 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18299317 | AGROCHEMICAL COMPOSITION | JOHNSON, DANIELLE D | 1617 | §103§112Other | Final Rejection | 72d overdue | Pending | Apr 12, 2023 |
| 17416266 | AGROCHEMICAL COMPOSITION | JOHNSON, DANIELLE D | 1617 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | 3d overdue | Pending | Jun 18, 2021 |
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