Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Biomems Diagnostics Inc. currently maintains 1 pending office action within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This individual matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and is located in 1 distinct art unit. This high degree of concentration suggests that the company's technical disclosures are being evaluated by a single point of contact at the patent office. This arrangement can lead to significant consistency in how the company's claims are interpreted within the Chemistry & Materials field.
The busiest examiner, SUN, CAITLYN MINGYUN, is responsible for 1 pending office action. Because there is only 1 active matter in total, this examiner manages the company's entire workload. The presence of only 1 distinct art unit for this matter indicates that the underlying technology is highly specialized. For practitioners, the focus on 1 examiner and 1 art unit means that the prosecution path for the current portfolio is governed by the specific standards of this individual and their administrative group.
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 (100%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SUN, CAITLYN MINGYUN | 1 | 63.5% | +11.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18249078 | Automatic Diagnostic Tracing | SUN, CAITLYN MINGYUN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1795 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18249078 | Automatic Diagnostic Tracing | SUN, CAITLYN MINGYUN | 1795 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 14, 2023 |
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