Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
BIO-RAD LABORATORIES, INC. has 2 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are distributed across 2 distinct examiners. However, both matters are located within 1 distinct art unit. This indicates that while different individuals are reviewing the applications, the prosecution is centralized within a single organizational group at the patent office. This centralization can lead to more predictable technical requirements across the pending matters.
HANDY, DWAYNE K is the busiest examiner for the company. This examiner is responsible for 1 pending office action. Given that there are 2 pending office actions in total, this examiner handles 1 of the company's current pending matters. The use of 2 examiners within 1 art unit provides a consistent technical environment for the company's pending responses. Practitioners can leverage their experience with this 1 art unit to inform their strategy for both pending actions.
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 |
|---|---|
| Double-patenting + other | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HANDY, DWAYNE K | 1 | 62.6% | +25.1% |
| KASS, BENJAMIN JOSEPH | 1 | 32.6% | +58.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17766545 | FLUID CONTAINER DEVICE COMPRISING A SEPTUM MEMBER, AND METHOD OF DELIVERING FLUID FROM SUCH A DEVICE | KASS, BENJAMIN JOSEPH | 18d 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17766545 | FLUID CONTAINER DEVICE COMPRISING A SEPTUM MEMBER, AND METHOD OF DELIVERING FLUID FROM SUCH A DEVICE | KASS, BENJAMIN JOSEPH | 18d overdue |
| 18927689 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TARGET DETECTION WITH APPLICATIONS IN CHARACTERIZING FOOD QUALITY AND IMPROVING FOOD SAFETY | HANDY, DWAYNE K | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1798 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18927689 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TARGET DETECTION WITH APPLICATIONS IN CHARACTERIZING FOOD QUALITY AND IMPROVING FOOD SAFETY | HANDY, DWAYNE K | 1798 | §102§103§112DP | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 25, 2024 |
| 17766545 | FLUID CONTAINER DEVICE COMPRISING A SEPTUM MEMBER, AND METHOD OF DELIVERING FLUID FROM SUCH A DEVICE | KASS, BENJAMIN JOSEPH | 1798 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 18d overdue | Pending | Apr 05, 2022 |
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