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
Biosafe Systems LLC has 1 pending office action in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, GONZALEZ, MADELINE, who is the busiest examiner for the company with 1 pending case. The prosecution is confined to 1 distinct art unit. This represents a single active point of contact for the company's chemical patent prosecution, requiring a highly focused and specialized legal approach.
Because there is only 1 pending office action, the company's success in the Chemistry & Materials area is currently tied to the decisions of GONZALEZ, MADELINE. This examiner's individual interpretation of the law and the specific standards of the 1 distinct art unit will be the primary factors in the case's outcome. Practitioners should focus on understanding this examiner's previous allowance rates and common objections. With 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit involved, the administrative burden is minimal, allowing for a concentrated effort on this single application. This focus ensures that the response to the 1 pending office action is as robust as possible, addressing all concerns raised within the specific chemical context of the assigned art unit.
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 |
|---|---|
| §102 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GONZALEZ, MADELINE | 1 | 72.4% | +16.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18899106 | PROCESS FOR CONTROLLING CYANOBACTERIA | GONZALEZ, MADELINE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1773 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18899106 | PROCESS FOR CONTROLLING CYANOBACTERIA | GONZALEZ, MADELINE | 1773 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 27, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialBiosafe Systems LLC has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Madeline Gonzalez has the most, with 1 of Biosafe Systems LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.