Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals
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
Bionorica SE currently has 1 pending office action in the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. This action is handled by BOECKELMAN, JACOB A, who is the 1 distinct examiner listed for the portfolio. This examiner's individual preferences are a factor in the success of the current application. The workload is assigned to 1 distinct examiner for this prosecution phase.
The portfolio is active in 1 distinct art unit. The busiest examiner is responsible for 1 pending action. Because 1 distinct art unit is involved, the applicant interacts with this administrative division at the patent office. Practitioners should prepare for the specific examination style of BOECKELMAN, JACOB A, as this official's decisions will determine the outcome for the 1 pending office action. This pending office action represents the current focus of the company's efforts in the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals sector.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BOECKELMAN, JACOB A | 1 | 35.2% | +45.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17427382 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING PLANT MATERIALS HAVING REDUCED VARIANCE | BOECKELMAN, JACOB A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1655 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17427382 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING PLANT MATERIALS HAVING REDUCED VARIANCE | BOECKELMAN, JACOB A | 1655 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 30, 2021 |
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