Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Bioline Agrosciences France currently has 2 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are being reviewed by 2 distinct examiners in 2 distinct art units. This indicates that the company's active medical device applications are being processed through separate channels at the USPTO. The presence of 2 distinct art units suggests that the technology involves different mechanical engineering disciplines.
The busiest examiner for the company is KIM, CHRISTOPHER S, who is assigned 1 busiest examiner pending action. Since there are 2 pending office actions in total, the workload is distributed evenly with 1 busiest examiner pending action per examiner. The company must manage different prosecution timelines and sets of examiner requirements within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering field. Each of the 2 distinct examiners will provide independent feedback that must be addressed to advance the portfolio. Success for Bioline Agrosciences France depends on navigating the specific preferences of KIM, CHRISTOPHER S and the other assigned examiner across the 2 distinct art units. This split workload requires a coordinated legal strategy to ensure consistent results.
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%) |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KIM, CHRISTOPHER S | 1 | 63.3% | +21.5% |
| LIU, TRACY | 1 | 54.5% | +27.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18267858 | System for Spraying a Composition of Live Biological Control Agents | KIM, CHRISTOPHER S | 16d 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18267858 | System for Spraying a Composition of Live Biological Control Agents | KIM, CHRISTOPHER S | 16d overdue |
| 17759626 | Method for Dispersing Live Predatory Mites of the Phytoseiulus Genus Which Are Used in Biocontrol | LIU, TRACY | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3752 | 1 |
| 1614 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18267858 | System for Spraying a Composition of Live Biological Control Agents | KIM, CHRISTOPHER S | 3752 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 16d overdue | Pending | Jun 16, 2023 |
| 17759626 | Method for Dispersing Live Predatory Mites of the Phytoseiulus Genus Which Are Used in Biocontrol | LIU, TRACY | 1614 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 28, 2022 |
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