Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Chemistry & Materials
12 pending office actions • 8 art units • 12 examiners • 0 of 12 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 9 patents granted in the last 365 days
Bgi Shenzhen has 12 pending office actions in the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. These 12 actions are assigned to 12 distinct examiners, resulting in 12 distinct examiners for the 12 pending actions. These actions are distributed across 8 distinct art units, indicating a broad range of technical filings within the biotechnology sector.
KASHYAPA, ANUSHA is the busiest examiner for the company, with 1 pending office action. The distribution across 8 art units indicates that the company's biotechnology applications are being reviewed by many different specialized groups within the patent office. Because there are 12 distinct examiners working in 8 art units, the company frequently interacts with multiple examiners within the same unit. This decentralized examiner landscape requires a prosecution strategy that accounts for 12 different individual perspectives even when the technical subject matter is concentrated within a few specialized groups in the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals field.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 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. 3 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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (8%) |
| §103 only | 3 (25%) |
| §112 only | 1 (8%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 2 (17%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 5 (42%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KASHYAPA, ANUSHA | 1 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
| FRONDA, CHRISTIAN L | 1 | 82.4% | +14.2% |
| HOLLAND, PAUL J | 1 | 57.5% | +64.6% |
| BERA, HENA RAKESHKUMAR | 1 | — | — |
| LEE, SHUN K | 1 | 42.2% | +16.3% |
| GRAY, JESSICA | 1 | 0.0% | +0.0% |
| AUGER, NOAH ANDREW | 1 | 36.4% | +42.4% |
| MONTGOMERY, ANN Y | 1 | 69.0% | +27.7% |
| CHIU, MAY LEUNG | 1 | 44.8% | +24.4% |
| GAMBLE JR, RANDALL LEE | 1 | 51.4% | +27.6% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18725513 | MUTANTS AND USE THEREOF | FRONDA, CHRISTIAN L | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18024337 | FLOW CELL, LIQUID INLET AND OUTLET DEVICE APPLYING FLOW CELL, AND SAMPLE ANALYSIS SYSTEM | CHIU, MAY LEUNG | 3d overdue |
| 18879715 | BASE CALLING METHOD AND SYSTEM, GENE SEQUENCER AND STORAGE MEDIUM | KASHYAPA, ANUSHA | — |
| 18687941 | DETECTION STRUCTURE AND METHOD, DETECTION CHIP, AND SENSING DEVICE | BERA, HENA RAKESHKUMAR | — |
| 18570440 | METHOD FOR OBTAINING DOUBLE-STRANDED SEQUENCE BY SINGLE-STRANDED ROLLING CIRCLE AMPLIFICATION | GRAY, JESSICA | — |
| 18254842 | FETAL CHROMOSOMAL ABNORMALITY DETECTION METHOD AND SYSTEM | AUGER, NOAH ANDREW | — |
| 17423950 | MICROBEAD | FLINDERS, JEREMY C | — |
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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18683288 | MICROSCOPIC IMAGING APPARATUS AND ILLUMINATION CHIP THEREOF, IMAGING METHOD, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND MEDIUM | LEE, SHUN K | 36d overdue |
| 18024337 | FLOW CELL, LIQUID INLET AND OUTLET DEVICE APPLYING FLOW CELL, AND SAMPLE ANALYSIS SYSTEM | CHIU, MAY LEUNG | 3d overdue |
| 18725513 | MUTANTS AND USE THEREOF | FRONDA, CHRISTIAN L | — |
| 18722334 | DNA POLYMERASE MUTANT AND USE THEREOF | HOLLAND, PAUL J | — |
| 18254842 | FETAL CHROMOSOMAL ABNORMALITY DETECTION METHOD AND SYSTEM | AUGER, NOAH ANDREW | — |
| 18029056 | MICROBEAD AND PREPARATION METHOD THEREFOR | MONTGOMERY, ANN Y | — |
| 17922656 | SYSTEM AND APPARATUS FOR NANOPORE SINGLE MOLECULE SEQUENCING | GAMBLE JR, RANDALL LEE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1656 | 1 |
| 2884 | 1 |
| 1682 | 1 |
| 1678 | 1 |
| 1758 | 1 |
| 1795 | 1 |
| 1683 | 1 |
| 1684 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18879715 | BASE CALLING METHOD AND SYSTEM, GENE SEQUENCER AND STORAGE MEDIUM | KASHYAPA, ANUSHA | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 27, 2024 |
| 18725513 | MUTANTS AND USE THEREOF | FRONDA, CHRISTIAN L | — | §103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 28, 2024 |
| 18722334 | DNA POLYMERASE MUTANT AND USE THEREOF | HOLLAND, PAUL J | 1656 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 20, 2024 |
| 18687941 | DETECTION STRUCTURE AND METHOD, DETECTION CHIP, AND SENSING DEVICE | BERA, HENA RAKESHKUMAR | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 29, 2024 |
| 18683288 | MICROSCOPIC IMAGING APPARATUS AND ILLUMINATION CHIP THEREOF, IMAGING METHOD, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND MEDIUM | LEE, SHUN K | 2884 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 36d overdue | Pending | Feb 13, 2024 |
| 18570440 | METHOD FOR OBTAINING DOUBLE-STRANDED SEQUENCE BY SINGLE-STRANDED ROLLING CIRCLE AMPLIFICATION | GRAY, JESSICA | 1682 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 14, 2023 |
| 18254842 | FETAL CHROMOSOMAL ABNORMALITY DETECTION METHOD AND SYSTEM | AUGER, NOAH ANDREW | — | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 26, 2023 |
| 18029056 | MICROBEAD AND PREPARATION METHOD THEREFOR | MONTGOMERY, ANN Y | 1678 | §112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 28, 2023 |
| 18024337 | FLOW CELL, LIQUID INLET AND OUTLET DEVICE APPLYING FLOW CELL, AND SAMPLE ANALYSIS SYSTEM | CHIU, MAY LEUNG | 1758 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 3d overdue | Pending | Mar 02, 2023 |
| 17922656 | SYSTEM AND APPARATUS FOR NANOPORE SINGLE MOLECULE SEQUENCING | GAMBLE JR, RANDALL LEE | 1795 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 01, 2022 |
| 18048671 | SEQUENCING CHIP AND PREPARATION METHOD THEREFOR | CROW, ROBERT THOMAS | 1683 | §103§112DP | Final Rejection | 77d | Pending | Oct 21, 2022 |
| 17423950 | MICROBEAD | FLINDERS, JEREMY C | 1684 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 19, 2021 |
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