Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Chemistry & Materials
7 pending office actions • 6 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Cemvita Factory Inc. maintains a patent portfolio within the Chemistry & Materials technology area, currently managing 7 pending office actions. These actions are distributed among 6 distinct examiners, indicating a broad engagement with the patent office. This distribution suggests that the company's intellectual property strategy is not overly reliant on the discretion of the examiners.
The prosecution activity spans distinct art units, which highlights the diverse technical nature of the company's filings. SHAMS, NAZMUN NAHAR is the busiest examiner for the company, currently overseeing 2 pending office actions. This is the only examiner handling more than a matter, as the remaining pending office actions are split among the other examiners.
For practitioners, the presence of 7 pending office actions across the 6 distinct art units requires a multifaceted prosecution strategy. While SHAMS, NAZMUN NAHAR manages 2 pending office actions, the overall portfolio is characterized by a high degree of examiner and art unit diversity. This spread suggests that the company is pursuing multiple distinct technological paths simultaneously within its primary technology area.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (14%) |
| §103 only | 4 (57%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (29%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SHAMS, NAZMUN NAHAR | 2 | 80.6% | +18.4% |
| BREEN, KIMBERLY CATHERINE | 1 | 23.8% | +56.9% |
| LACLAIR, LOGAN EDWARD | 1 | 78.2% | +22.2% |
| RAGHU, GANAPATHIRAM | 1 | 73.6% | +26.4% |
| KIPOUROS, HOLLY MICHAELA | 1 | 69.5% | +21.6% |
| SPANGLER, JOSEPH RANKIN | 1 | 41.2% | +69.5% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18174170 | PROCESS | SHAMS, NAZMUN NAHAR | 18d overdue |
| 18672476 | PROCESS | SHAMS, NAZMUN NAHAR | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18325786 | PRODUCT | RAGHU, GANAPATHIRAM | 58d overdue |
| 18618868 | PROCESS AND PLANT | BREEN, KIMBERLY CATHERINE | 62d |
| 18312893 | PROCESS | KIPOUROS, HOLLY MICHAELA | — |
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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18325786 | PRODUCT | RAGHU, GANAPATHIRAM | 58d overdue |
| 18174170 | PROCESS | SHAMS, NAZMUN NAHAR | 18d overdue |
| 17418505 | BIOSYNTHETIC METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PRODUCING MONOSACCHARIDES | SPANGLER, JOSEPH RANKIN | 14d |
| 18618868 | PROCESS AND PLANT | BREEN, KIMBERLY CATHERINE | 62d |
| 18672476 | PROCESS | SHAMS, NAZMUN NAHAR | — |
| 18507658 | PROCESS | LACLAIR, LOGAN EDWARD | — |
| 18312893 | PROCESS | KIPOUROS, HOLLY MICHAELA | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1738 | 2 |
| 1657 | 1 |
| 1736 | 1 |
| 1652 | 1 |
| 1799 | 1 |
| 1656 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18672476 | PROCESS | SHAMS, NAZMUN NAHAR | 1738 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 23, 2024 |
| 18618868 | PROCESS AND PLANT | BREEN, KIMBERLY CATHERINE | 1657 | §101§103§112Other | Final Rejection | 62d | Pending | Mar 27, 2024 |
| 18507658 | PROCESS | LACLAIR, LOGAN EDWARD | 1736 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 13, 2023 |
| 18325786 | PRODUCT | RAGHU, GANAPATHIRAM | 1652 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 58d overdue | Pending | May 30, 2023 |
| 18312893 | PROCESS | KIPOUROS, HOLLY MICHAELA | 1799 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 05, 2023 |
| 18174170 | PROCESS | SHAMS, NAZMUN NAHAR | 1738 | §103 | Final Rejection | 18d overdue | Pending | Feb 24, 2023 |
| 17418505 | BIOSYNTHETIC METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PRODUCING MONOSACCHARIDES | SPANGLER, JOSEPH RANKIN | 1656 | §103 | Final Rejection | 14d | Pending | Jun 25, 2021 |
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