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
Center For Aquaculture Technologies Inc. currently manages 2 pending office actions within the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. These matters are distributed across distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. This distribution indicates a diversified prosecution strategy involving multiple technical sub-specialties within the broader biotechnology field. The presence of multiple specialized classifications suggests that the company's innovations span several technical niches within the patent office.
BERTOGLIO, VALARIE E is identified as the busiest examiner for this portfolio, currently handling 1 busiest examiner pending office action. While the workload is split, this examiner represents a significant portion of the active office action volume. Practitioners must coordinate responses across the different administrative units, requiring a strategy that accounts for the different perspectives of the examiners involved in the process. This multi-examiner environment necessitates a broader understanding of how different individuals within the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals area interpret similar technical concepts.
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 |
|---|---|
| §112 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BERTOGLIO, VALARIE E | 1 | 64.1% | +30.2% |
| BATES, KEENAN ALEXANDER | 1 | 45.5% | +79.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17261280 | A METHOD OF GENERATING STERILE PROGENY | BATES, KEENAN ALEXANDER | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17264029 | A METHOD OF GENERATING STERILE AND MONOSEX PROGENY | BERTOGLIO, VALARIE E | 44d overdue |
| 17261280 | A METHOD OF GENERATING STERILE PROGENY | BATES, KEENAN ALEXANDER | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1632 | 1 |
| 1631 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17264029 | A METHOD OF GENERATING STERILE AND MONOSEX PROGENY | BERTOGLIO, VALARIE E | 1632 | §112 | Non-Final OA | 44d overdue | Pending | Jan 28, 2021 |
| 17261280 | A METHOD OF GENERATING STERILE PROGENY | BATES, KEENAN ALEXANDER | 1631 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 19, 2021 |
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