Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Chemistry & Materials
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
BIONANO HEALTH GUARD RESEARCH CENTER has 3 pending office actions in the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. These actions are distributed across 3 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units. JOSE HERNANDEZ-KENNEY is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending office action. The distribution across different examiners and art units suggests a diverse range of inquiries.
The presence of 3 distinct examiners for 3 pending office actions means that each case is being reviewed by a different person. Furthermore, the involvement of 3 distinct art units indicates that the technical subject matter within the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals area is varied enough to be assigned to different specialized groups. JOSE HERNANDEZ-KENNEY is one of the 3 examiners, and his 1 pending office action is part of the center's current pending workload.
For a practitioner, this data shows that the center's prosecution is not centralized. Each of the 3 pending office actions requires a unique approach tailored to a specific examiner and a specific art unit. The diversity in art units suggests that the biotechnology being patented covers different sub-sectors, requiring a broad understanding of different examination standards across the 3 distinct art units. The involvement of 3 distinct examiners for 3 pending office actions indicates a lack of examiner concentration.
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 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (67%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HERNANDEZ-KENNEY, JOSE | 1 | 54.6% | +22.8% |
| GOLDBERG, JEANINE ANNE | 1 | 45.8% | +40.8% |
| DONOHUE, SEAN R | 1 | 41.4% | +21.0% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18720325 | TWO-DIMENSIONAL OR THREE-DIMENSIONAL NANOCUBE SELF-ASSEMBLED STRUCTURE, AND PREPARATION METHOD THEREOF | HERNANDEZ-KENNEY, JOSE | — |
| 18572508 | COMPOSITION FOR DETECTING MICROBIAL ON-SITE CONTAMINATION AND USE THEREOF | GOLDBERG, JEANINE ANNE | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18246944 | MACROCYCLIC HOST MOLECULE-BASED CORE-SHELL NANOPARTICLES AND METHOD FOR SYNTHESIZING SAME | DONOHUE, SEAN R | 33d |
| 18720325 | TWO-DIMENSIONAL OR THREE-DIMENSIONAL NANOCUBE SELF-ASSEMBLED STRUCTURE, AND PREPARATION METHOD THEREOF | HERNANDEZ-KENNEY, JOSE | — |
| 18572508 | COMPOSITION FOR DETECTING MICROBIAL ON-SITE CONTAMINATION AND USE THEREOF | GOLDBERG, JEANINE ANNE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1717 | 1 |
| 1682 | 1 |
| 1618 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18720325 | TWO-DIMENSIONAL OR THREE-DIMENSIONAL NANOCUBE SELF-ASSEMBLED STRUCTURE, AND PREPARATION METHOD THEREOF | HERNANDEZ-KENNEY, JOSE | 1717 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 14, 2024 |
| 18572508 | COMPOSITION FOR DETECTING MICROBIAL ON-SITE CONTAMINATION AND USE THEREOF | GOLDBERG, JEANINE ANNE | 1682 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 20, 2023 |
| 18246944 | MACROCYCLIC HOST MOLECULE-BASED CORE-SHELL NANOPARTICLES AND METHOD FOR SYNTHESIZING SAME | DONOHUE, SEAN R | 1618 | §103DP | Final Rejection | 33d | Pending | Aug 23, 2023 |
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