Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: 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
BIOSAFE S.A. maintains a company patent portfolio in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. The portfolio currently has 2 pending office actions. These actions are distributed across 2 distinct examiners, showing a distributed approach to the current workload. This distribution suggests that the company is engaging with multiple points of contact within the patent office simultaneously.
The filings are situated within 2 distinct art units. CHEN, CHANGRU is the busiest examiner for the company, managing 1 busiest examiner pending office action. This represents half of the total 2 pending office actions currently active for the portfolio. For a practitioner, the presence of 2 distinct art units indicates that the underlying technology may span different classification areas, requiring a strategy that accounts for the specific practices of each unit. The involvement of 2 distinct examiners further suggests that prosecution outcomes will be determined by multiple individual perspectives.
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 | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHEN, CHANGRU | 1 | 48.1% | +41.4% |
| ABEL, LENORA A | 1 | 68.3% | +34.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17433463 | Closed Tissue Disaggregation and Cryopreservation | ABEL, LENORA A | 35d |
| 17776572 | BUNG FOR INSULATING A CONTAINER AND COOLING METHODS | CHEN, CHANGRU | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1796 | 1 |
| 1799 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17776572 | BUNG FOR INSULATING A CONTAINER AND COOLING METHODS | CHEN, CHANGRU | 1796 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 12, 2022 |
| 17433463 | Closed Tissue Disaggregation and Cryopreservation | ABEL, LENORA A | 1799 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 35d | Pending | Aug 24, 2021 |
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