Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
5 pending office actions • 4 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 8 patents granted in the last 365 days
Cellares Corporation operates within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. The company currently has 5 pending office actions distributed among 5 distinct examiners. These actions are situated across 4 distinct art units, indicating a relatively broad distribution of its pending matters within the patent office. This variety suggests that the company's patent applications cover several different technical classifications within the broader chemistry field.
ZHU, JIANJIAN is identified as the busiest examiner for this portfolio, currently overseeing 1 busiest examiner pending action. With 5 pending office actions and 5 distinct examiners, the current workload is evenly spread, with each examiner responsible for a single pending action. This distribution means that no single examiner is overwhelmed by the company's current filings.
The involvement of 4 distinct art units may require coordinating strategies across different examination groups to ensure consistency in claim construction and arguments. Practitioners should be prepared for potentially different examination timelines or procedural nuances across these 4 distinct art units.
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 (20%) |
| §102 only | 1 (20%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (20%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (40%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ZHU, JIANJIAN | 1 | 58.8% | +82.4% |
| MCGUIRK, JOHN SCHUYLER | 1 | 78.0% | +48.4% |
| LE, AUSTIN Q | 1 | 49.7% | +31.0% |
| SHRIEVES, STEPHANIE ALEXANDRA | 1 | 73.0% | +20.3% |
| LIMBAUGH, KATHRYN ELIZABETH | 1 | 76.0% | +31.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18638658 | SYSTEMS, DEVICES, AND METHODS FOR AUTOMATED ANALYSIS OF FLUID SAMPLES FROM A CELL PROCESSING SYSTEM | LE, AUSTIN Q | — |
| 18620826 | SYSTEMS, DEVICES, AND METHODS FOR FLUID TRANSFER WITHIN AN AUTOMATED CELL PROCESSING SYSTEM | SHRIEVES, STEPHANIE ALEXANDRA | — |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18731095 | SYSTEMS, DEVICES, AND METHODS FOR REAGENT STORAGE IN AUTOMATED CELL PROCESSING | MCGUIRK, JOHN SCHUYLER | 31d overdue |
| 18807699 | SYSTEMS, DEVICES, AND METHODS FOR CONDITIONAL EXECUTION OF AUTOMATIC CELL PROCESSING | ZHU, JIANJIAN | — |
| 18638658 | SYSTEMS, DEVICES, AND METHODS FOR AUTOMATED ANALYSIS OF FLUID SAMPLES FROM A CELL PROCESSING SYSTEM | LE, AUSTIN Q | — |
| 18620826 | SYSTEMS, DEVICES, AND METHODS FOR FLUID TRANSFER WITHIN AN AUTOMATED CELL PROCESSING SYSTEM | SHRIEVES, STEPHANIE ALEXANDRA | — |
| 18412350 | SYSTEMS, DEVICES, AND METHODS FOR SCHEDULING WORKFLOWS FOR AUTOMATED CELL THERAPY MANUFACTURING | LIMBAUGH, KATHRYN ELIZABETH | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1631 | 1 |
| 1798 | 1 |
| 1796 | 1 |
| 3753 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18807699 | SYSTEMS, DEVICES, AND METHODS FOR CONDITIONAL EXECUTION OF AUTOMATIC CELL PROCESSING | ZHU, JIANJIAN | 1631 | §102§103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 16, 2024 |
| 18731095 | SYSTEMS, DEVICES, AND METHODS FOR REAGENT STORAGE IN AUTOMATED CELL PROCESSING | MCGUIRK, JOHN SCHUYLER | 1798 | §103 | Final Rejection | 31d overdue | Pending | May 31, 2024 |
| 18638658 | SYSTEMS, DEVICES, AND METHODS FOR AUTOMATED ANALYSIS OF FLUID SAMPLES FROM A CELL PROCESSING SYSTEM | LE, AUSTIN Q | 1796 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 17, 2024 |
| 18620826 | SYSTEMS, DEVICES, AND METHODS FOR FLUID TRANSFER WITHIN AN AUTOMATED CELL PROCESSING SYSTEM | SHRIEVES, STEPHANIE ALEXANDRA | 3753 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 28, 2024 |
| 18412350 | SYSTEMS, DEVICES, AND METHODS FOR SCHEDULING WORKFLOWS FOR AUTOMATED CELL THERAPY MANUFACTURING | LIMBAUGH, KATHRYN ELIZABETH | — | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 12, 2024 |
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