Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Cella Therapeutics LLC holds a patent portfolio in the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area that currently includes 2 pending office actions. These matters are distributed across 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units, indicating a diversified prosecution landscape. This distribution suggests that the company is pursuing multiple technical avenues or distinct inventions that fall under different regulatory scrutiny within the USPTO.
The busiest examiner for the portfolio is MARTINEZ, TARA L, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. While the workload is split, the presence of 2 distinct art units means that the legal team must navigate different sets of examination guidelines simultaneously. With 2 pending office actions in total, the portfolio requires a coordinated effort to manage the specific requirements of each examiner. Practitioners should note that MARTINEZ, TARA L handles a portion of the current active workload, making their specific feedback a significant component of the overall strategy. Managing 2 pending office actions across different units requires a dual-track approach to satisfy the unique technical requirements of 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 |
|---|---|
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| JONES, DAMERON LEVEST | 1 | 67.7% | +31.3% |
| MARTINEZ, TARA L | 1 | 62.6% | +65.4% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17843796 | DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEMS COMPRISING AN INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE LOWERING AGENT, A NEUROTROPHIC AGENT, A C-TYPE NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE, A NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE RECEPTOR-B, AN APOPTOSIS SIGNALING FRAGMENT INHIBITOR OR A FAS-LIGAND INHIBITOR FOR TREATING GLAUCOMA OR OCULAR HYPERTENSION | JONES, DAMERON LEVEST | 39d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17787228 | DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEMS COMPRISING A NEUROTROPHIC AGENT, AN APOPTOSIS SIGNALING FRAGMENT INHIBITOR (FAS) OR FAS LIGAND (FASL) INHIBITOR, A TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA (TNF-ALPHA) OR TNF RECEPTOR INHIBITOR, A MITOCHONDRIAL PEPTIDE, AN OLIGONUCLEOTIDE, A CHEMOKINE INHIBITOR, OR A CYSTEINE-ASPARTIC PROTEASE INHIBITOR | MARTINEZ, TARA L | 25d overdue |
| 17843796 | DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEMS COMPRISING AN INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE LOWERING AGENT, A NEUROTROPHIC AGENT, A C-TYPE NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE, A NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE RECEPTOR-B, AN APOPTOSIS SIGNALING FRAGMENT INHIBITOR OR A FAS-LIGAND INHIBITOR FOR TREATING GLAUCOMA OR OCULAR HYPERTENSION | JONES, DAMERON LEVEST | 39d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1618 | 1 |
| 1654 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17843796 | DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEMS COMPRISING AN INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE LOWERING AGENT, A NEUROTROPHIC AGENT, A C-TYPE NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE, A NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE RECEPTOR-B, AN APOPTOSIS SIGNALING FRAGMENT INHIBITOR OR A FAS-LIGAND INHIBITOR FOR TREATING GLAUCOMA OR OCULAR HYPERTENSION | JONES, DAMERON LEVEST | 1618 | §103§112Other | Final Rejection | 39d | Pending | Jun 17, 2022 |
| 17787228 | DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEMS COMPRISING A NEUROTROPHIC AGENT, AN APOPTOSIS SIGNALING FRAGMENT INHIBITOR (FAS) OR FAS LIGAND (FASL) INHIBITOR, A TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA (TNF-ALPHA) OR TNF RECEPTOR INHIBITOR, A MITOCHONDRIAL PEPTIDE, AN OLIGONUCLEOTIDE, A CHEMOKINE INHIBITOR, OR A CYSTEINE-ASPARTIC PROTEASE INHIBITOR | MARTINEZ, TARA L | 1654 | §112DP | Non-Final OA | 25d overdue | Pending | Jun 17, 2022 |
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