Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 04, 2026

Bracco Suisse SA

Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering

3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days

Analysis

Bracco Suisse SA manages 3 pending office actions within the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. These actions are distributed across 3 distinct examiners, which indicates that each pending matter is currently under the review of a different individual at the patent office. The portfolio involves 2 distinct art units, suggesting some level of technical overlap or relatedness between the applications despite the variety of examiners assigned. DICKINSON, PAUL W is identified as the busiest examiner for the company, as he is responsible for 1 pending office action.

The presence of 3 distinct examiners for only 3 pending office actions highlights a lack of examiner concentration in the company's current prosecution efforts. This distribution means that the company must navigate the individual preferences and examination styles of three different people simultaneously. Because the 3 pending office actions are spread across 2 distinct art units, the company's biotechnology and pharmaceutical innovations are being evaluated under slightly different technical standards.

Practitioners should be prepared for a decentralized prosecution experience where the outcomes of each application are independent of one another. Managing 1 pending office action under the busiest examiner, DICKINSON, PAUL W, represents only a portion of the company's active matters, requiring a broad strategy to handle the diverse examiner pool. This structure requires the company to manage multiple examiner relationships simultaneously within the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals sector.

Written from this page's own data; every figure is computed from USPTO records and verified before publication.

Portfolio Summary

3
Total Pending OAs
3
Non-Final OAs
0
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

0
Overdue
0
Due this week
2
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
0
Due later

Case Difficulty Mix

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.

2
Hard (67%)
1
Medium (33%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only1 (33%)
Multi-statute (no §101)2 (67%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

1
Life Sciences
33% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
1
Mechanical / Eng
33% of docket
1
Business / Other
33% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

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.

30 h
Manual time on pending OAs
6 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
10 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.3 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
DICKINSON, PAUL W 1 63.1% +9.5%
CRAIG, KAILA ANGELIQUE 1 33.8% +25.2%
HARRIS, WESLEY G 1 73.3% +22.0%

Hard Cases (2)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18010068 IMPROVEMENTS IN ULTRASOUND-MEDIATED THERAPY HARRIS, WESLEY G 19d
18722126 MICROFLUIDIC PREPARATION OF NANODROPLETS WITH FLUORINATED COMPOUND DICKINSON, PAUL W —

Interview Candidates (2)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18719175 METHOD FOR EXTRACTING A FLUORINATED GAS CRAIG, KAILA ANGELIQUE 12d
18010068 IMPROVEMENTS IN ULTRASOUND-MEDIATED THERAPY HARRIS, WESLEY G 19d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1618 1
3783 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18722126 MICROFLUIDIC PREPARATION OF NANODROPLETS WITH FLUORINATED COMPOUND DICKINSON, PAUL W — §102§103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Jun 20, 2024
18719175 METHOD FOR EXTRACTING A FLUORINATED GAS CRAIG, KAILA ANGELIQUE 1618 §103 Non-Final OA 12d Pending Jun 12, 2024
18010068 IMPROVEMENTS IN ULTRASOUND-MEDIATED THERAPY HARRIS, WESLEY G 3783 §102§103 Non-Final OA 19d Pending Dec 13, 2022

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