Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Chemistry & Materials
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Berkeley Fermentation Science Inc. is currently engaged in the prosecution of 3 pending office actions within the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. This volume of activity suggests a focused effort on securing protections for fermentation-related biological innovations. The presence of multiple active matters indicates an ongoing dialogue with the USPTO regarding its core technologies.
The company's patent applications are distributed across 3 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units. This arrangement means that each of the 3 pending office actions is being reviewed by a different official in a different specialized division of the USPTO. Such a spread minimizes the impact of any single examiner's tendencies on the overall portfolio but requires the company to address three different sets of technical and procedural expectations.
CHEONG, CHEOM-GIL is the busiest examiner for the company, currently responsible for 1 pending office action. With the workload evenly divided, no single examiner manages more than one-third of the active filings. This diversification across 3 distinct art units within the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals sector highlights the need for a broad and adaptable prosecution strategy to handle the 3 pending office actions effectively.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 1 (33%) |
| §112 only | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHEONG, CHEOM-GIL | 1 | 64.2% | +52.6% |
| MISHRA, DEEPA | 1 | 29.3% | +35.2% |
| POPA, ILEANA | 1 | 21.4% | +15.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18036472 | GENETICALLY ENGINEERED YEAST CELLS AND METHODS OF USE THEREOF | POPA, ILEANA | 69d |
| 18560836 | METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR GAMMA-DECALACTONE BIOSYNTHESIS IN FERMENTED BEVERAGES | MISHRA, DEEPA | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18036472 | GENETICALLY ENGINEERED YEAST CELLS AND METHODS OF USE THEREOF | POPA, ILEANA | 69d |
| 18699011 | METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR REDUCING SMOKE TAINT IN FERMENTED BEVERAGES | CHEONG, CHEOM-GIL | — |
| 18560836 | METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR GAMMA-DECALACTONE BIOSYNTHESIS IN FERMENTED BEVERAGES | MISHRA, DEEPA | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1793 | 1 |
| 1657 | 1 |
| 1633 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18699011 | METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR REDUCING SMOKE TAINT IN FERMENTED BEVERAGES | CHEONG, CHEOM-GIL | 1793 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 05, 2024 |
| 18560836 | METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR GAMMA-DECALACTONE BIOSYNTHESIS IN FERMENTED BEVERAGES | MISHRA, DEEPA | 1657 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 14, 2023 |
| 18036472 | GENETICALLY ENGINEERED YEAST CELLS AND METHODS OF USE THEREOF | POPA, ILEANA | 1633 | §103 | Final Rejection | 69d | Pending | May 11, 2023 |
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