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
Bedoukian Research Inc. has 1 pending office action in the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, Benjamin J. Packard. The presence of a single pending action allows the company to focus its resources on addressing the specific concerns of one examiner in the biotechnology field. This focused approach can facilitate a more specialized and efficient prosecution process for the pending application.
The active prosecution is limited to 1 distinct art unit. Benjamin J. Packard is the busiest examiner for the company, managing 1 pending office action. This indicates a very specific and focused point of contact for the company's current patent applications. The concentration in 1 distinct art unit suggests that the company's current patent strategy is tightly aligned with a specific technical niche within the biotechnology sector. This focused approach can facilitate a more specialized and efficient prosecution process.
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 |
|---|---|
| Double-patenting + other | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PACKARD, BENJAMIN J | 1 | 66.7% | +15.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18769579 | METHOD OF PROTECTING PLANTS OR SEEDS FROM STRESS INJURY RESULTING FROM ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS | PACKARD, BENJAMIN J | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1612 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18769579 | METHOD OF PROTECTING PLANTS OR SEEDS FROM STRESS INJURY RESULTING FROM ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS | PACKARD, BENJAMIN J | 1612 | §102DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 11, 2024 |
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