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 • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Beijing Univ Civil Engn & Architecture has 1 pending office action currently active in the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. The prosecution of this portfolio involves a distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. This focus means that the university's current patent office interactions in this sector are confined to a specific technical niche and an individual administrative review path.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is STEADMAN, DAVID J, who is assigned to the pending office action. Because there is an individual examiner and art unit involved, the outcome of the current prosecution depends on the interactions within this specific unit. Practitioners can focus their strategy on the specific tendencies of STEADMAN, DAVID J, as this person manages the entirety of the pending workload for the company in this technology area.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| STEADMAN, DAVID J | 1 | 57.7% | +29.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18216837 | IMMOBILIZED CRUDE ENZYME FOR DEGRADING COMPLEX POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBONs (PAHs) IN SOIL AND PREPARATION METHOD THEREOF | STEADMAN, DAVID J | 48d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18216837 | IMMOBILIZED CRUDE ENZYME FOR DEGRADING COMPLEX POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBONs (PAHs) IN SOIL AND PREPARATION METHOD THEREOF | STEADMAN, DAVID J | 48d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1656 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18216837 | IMMOBILIZED CRUDE ENZYME FOR DEGRADING COMPLEX POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBONs (PAHs) IN SOIL AND PREPARATION METHOD THEREOF | STEADMAN, DAVID J | 1656 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 48d | Pending | Jun 30, 2023 |
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