Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Chemistry & Materials
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
BOTREE CYCLING SCI & TECH CO., LTD. is active in the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area with 2 pending office actions. This volume indicates multiple active matters currently under review by the patent office. The prosecution is distributed across 2 distinct examiners.
The portfolio also involves 2 distinct art units, suggesting that the company's innovations span different technical classifications or specialized groups. For a practitioner, managing 2 distinct art units requires adapting to different procedural norms and examination timelines. This diversity adds a layer of complexity to the overall prosecution strategy.
CARR, DEBORAH D is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, with 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Since there are 2 pending office actions in total, the workload is split among the 2 distinct examiners. No single examiner has oversight of the entire active pipeline, requiring the practitioner to track multiple sets of examiner preferences.
The presence of 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units necessitates a coordinated approach to ensure consistency across the 2 pending office actions. Practitioners must be prepared to handle different feedback from each examiner while navigating the specific requirements of each art unit. This distributed structure is a key characteristic of the company's current prosecution landscape.
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 | 1 (50%) |
| §112 only | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CARR, DEBORAH D | 1 | 81.8% | +2.7% |
| FUNG, CHING-YIU | 1 | 32.4% | +20.8% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18012259 | CARBOXYLIC ACID COMPOUND, AND PREPARATION METHOD THEREFOR AND APPLICATION THEREOF | CARR, DEBORAH D | 45d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17927036 | APPLICATIONS OF CARBOXYLIC COMPOUND SERVING AS EXTRACTING AGENT AND METAL ION EXTRACTION METHOD | FUNG, CHING-YIU | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1691 | 1 |
| 1732 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18012259 | CARBOXYLIC ACID COMPOUND, AND PREPARATION METHOD THEREFOR AND APPLICATION THEREOF | CARR, DEBORAH D | 1691 | §112 | Non-Final OA | 45d overdue | Pending | Dec 22, 2022 |
| 17927036 | APPLICATIONS OF CARBOXYLIC COMPOUND SERVING AS EXTRACTING AGENT AND METAL ION EXTRACTION METHOD | FUNG, CHING-YIU | 1732 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 22, 2022 |
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