Technology area: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Centers For Disease Control And Prevention (Cdc) manages 1 pending office action in the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. This matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, JOHANNSEN, DIANA B, and 1 distinct art unit. JOHANNSEN, DIANA B is the busiest examiner with 1 pending action, which is the only active matter for the agency. This focused prosecution involves a single technical review within the biotech sector, allowing for a highly targeted legal strategy.
The reliance on 1 distinct examiner for the 1 pending office action means that the agency's immediate success depends on navigating the specific preferences of JOHANNSEN, DIANA B. Because the case is situated in 1 distinct art unit, practitioners can focus their research on the specific technical guidelines relevant to that group. This centralized structure minimizes the complexity of managing multiple examiners but also places significant weight on the outcome of this single biotechnology matter. Effective prosecution will require a strategy that directly addresses the 1 distinct art unit's standards and the examiner's specific feedback.
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 (100%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| JOHANNSEN, DIANA B | 1 | 53.2% | +42.8% |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18165310 | METHODS AND ASSAYS FOR SUBTYPING STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS CLONAL COMPLEX 8 STRAINS | JOHANNSEN, DIANA B | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1682 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18165310 | METHODS AND ASSAYS FOR SUBTYPING STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS CLONAL COMPLEX 8 STRAINS | JOHANNSEN, DIANA B | 1682 | §112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 06, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialCenters For Disease Control And Prevention (Cdc) has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Diana B Johannsen has the most, with 1 of Centers For Disease Control And Prevention (Cdc)'s pending office actions.
Mostly Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals (USPTO Tech Center 1600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
