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
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.
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.
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 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (67%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DICKINSON, PAUL W | 1 | 63.1% | +9.5% |
| CRAIG, KAILA ANGELIQUE | 1 | 33.8% | +25.2% |
| HARRIS, WESLEY G | 1 | 73.3% | +22.0% |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18010068 | IMPROVEMENTS IN ULTRASOUND-MEDIATED THERAPY | HARRIS, WESLEY G | 19d |
| 18722126 | MICROFLUIDIC PREPARATION OF NANODROPLETS WITH FLUORINATED COMPOUND | DICKINSON, PAUL W | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18719175 | METHOD FOR EXTRACTING A FLUORINATED GAS | CRAIG, KAILA ANGELIQUE | 12d |
| 18010068 | IMPROVEMENTS IN ULTRASOUND-MEDIATED THERAPY | HARRIS, WESLEY G | 19d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1618 | 1 |
| 3783 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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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