Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Chemistry & Materials
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Bioconsortia Inc. maintains a company patent portfolio within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. There are currently 2 pending office actions in the portfolio, which are distributed across 2 distinct art units. This indicates that the company's patenting efforts are touching upon different specialized areas within the chemistry and materials sector.
The portfolio's prosecution is handled by 2 distinct examiners. CARREON, ADRIAN JOHN is identified as the busiest examiner, currently overseeing 1 busiest examiner pending office action. With 2 distinct examiners each managing 1 of the 2 pending office actions, the workload is evenly divided, and no single examiner has a dominant influence over the current state of the portfolio.
Practitioners working with Bioconsortia Inc. must manage interactions across 2 distinct art units. Because CARREON, ADRIAN JOHN handles 1 of the 2 pending office actions, the firm needs to maintain a balanced approach that accounts for the individual examination styles of both 2 distinct examiners. This structure within Chemistry & Materials suggests a need for technical expertise that spans the different requirements of the two involved art units.
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 (50%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CARREON, ADRIAN JOHN | 1 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
| DICKENS, AMELIA NICOLE | 1 | 47.6% | +21.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18305755 | APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLED ENVIRONMENT ESTABLISHMENT, MAINTENANCE, AND SAMPLING | CARREON, ADRIAN JOHN | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18011479 | AGRICULTURALLY BENEFICIAL MICROBES, MICROBIAL COMPOSITIONS, AND CONSORTIA | DICKENS, AMELIA NICOLE | 28d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1799 | 1 |
| 1645 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18305755 | APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLED ENVIRONMENT ESTABLISHMENT, MAINTENANCE, AND SAMPLING | CARREON, ADRIAN JOHN | 1799 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 24, 2023 |
| 18011479 | AGRICULTURALLY BENEFICIAL MICROBES, MICROBIAL COMPOSITIONS, AND CONSORTIA | DICKENS, AMELIA NICOLE | 1645 | §112DP | Non-Final OA | 28d overdue | Pending | Dec 19, 2022 |
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