Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals
3 pending office actions • 1 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Bruker Nano Inc. has 3 pending office actions in the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. These actions are all located within 1 distinct art unit. The company is working with 3 distinct examiners.
The busiest examiner is HAQ, SHAFIQUL, who has 1 pending office action. Because there are 3 actions and 3 examiners, each matter is handled by a unique individual. The concentration within 1 art unit suggests a specific technical focus for these pending matters. Practitioners must navigate three different examiner styles within a single 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 |
|---|---|
| Double-patenting 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HAQ, SHAFIQUL | 1 | 64.8% | +55.2% |
| NATH, SUMAN KUMAR | 1 | 82.7% | +22.5% |
| ROYSTON, JOHN M | 1 | 77.8% | +17.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18925991 | TESTING ASSEMBLY INCLUDING A MULTIPLE DEGREE OF FREEDOM STAGE | NATH, SUMAN KUMAR | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19424856 | METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR ENHANCED AND SELECTIVE PHOTOBLEACHING | HAQ, SHAFIQUL | — |
| 18800952 | Atomic Force Microscopy Probe with Tilted Tip and Method of Fabrication Thereof | ROYSTON, JOHN M | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19424856 | METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR ENHANCED AND SELECTIVE PHOTOBLEACHING | HAQ, SHAFIQUL | — |
| 18925991 | TESTING ASSEMBLY INCLUDING A MULTIPLE DEGREE OF FREEDOM STAGE | NATH, SUMAN KUMAR | — |
| 18800952 | Atomic Force Microscopy Probe with Tilted Tip and Method of Fabrication Thereof | ROYSTON, JOHN M | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1678 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19424856 | METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR ENHANCED AND SELECTIVE PHOTOBLEACHING | HAQ, SHAFIQUL | 1678 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 18, 2025 |
| 18925991 | TESTING ASSEMBLY INCLUDING A MULTIPLE DEGREE OF FREEDOM STAGE | NATH, SUMAN KUMAR | — | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 24, 2024 |
| 18800952 | Atomic Force Microscopy Probe with Tilted Tip and Method of Fabrication Thereof | ROYSTON, JOHN M | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 12, 2024 |
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