Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Chemistry & Materials
4 pending office actions • 2 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Cerdia International GmbH currently has 4 pending office actions in the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. These actions are distributed across 4 distinct examiners. Despite the variety of examiners, the workload is concentrated within only 2 distinct art units, indicating that the company's filings are focused on specific technical sub-groups.
The busiest examiner for the company is STEELE, JENNIFER A, who is handling 1 pending office action. This distribution ensures that no single examiner's individual tendencies dominate the entire portfolio's progress. This structure requires the company to manage separate examiner relationships simultaneously for its 4 pending office actions.
The presence of 2 distinct art units suggests that multiple examiners are operating within the same units. This may lead to some consistency in the examination process for the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals area. Practitioners can analyze these 2 distinct art units to better understand the broader environment for the company's current matters.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (25%) |
| §103 only | 1 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| STEELE, JENNIFER A | 1 | 48.7% | +33.5% |
| KRISHNAN, GANAPATHY | 1 | 52.8% | +1.1% |
| CULBERT, COURTNEY GUENTHER | 1 | 26.9% | +8.2% |
| LEE, HOI YAN NMN | 1 | 38.4% | +75.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18563005 | PROCESS FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF CARBOXYLIC ANHYDRIDE | KRISHNAN, GANAPATHY | 12d |
| 18697202 | FILTER ELEMENT FOR MOUTHPIECES FOR USE WITH SMOKING PRODUCTS OR HNB PRODUCTS | STEELE, JENNIFER A | — |
| 17786185 | FILTER MATERIAL AND/OR FILLER MATERIAL FOR MOUTHPIECES FOR USE WITH SMOKING PRODUCTS OR HNB PRODUCTS, MOUTHPIECES AND CIGARETTE FILTERS COMPRISING SUCH A FILTER MATERIAL AND/OR FILLER MATERIAL, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SUCH A FILTER MATERIAL AND/OR FILLER MATERIAL | CULBERT, COURTNEY GUENTHER | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17431537 | ACETYLATION OF NATURAL FIBRES TO OBTAIN THE FIBROUS STRUCTURE | LEE, HOI YAN NMN | 8d |
| 18697202 | FILTER ELEMENT FOR MOUTHPIECES FOR USE WITH SMOKING PRODUCTS OR HNB PRODUCTS | STEELE, JENNIFER A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1693 | 2 |
| 1747 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18697202 | FILTER ELEMENT FOR MOUTHPIECES FOR USE WITH SMOKING PRODUCTS OR HNB PRODUCTS | STEELE, JENNIFER A | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 29, 2024 |
| 18563005 | PROCESS FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF CARBOXYLIC ANHYDRIDE | KRISHNAN, GANAPATHY | 1693 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 12d | Pending | Nov 21, 2023 |
| 17786185 | FILTER MATERIAL AND/OR FILLER MATERIAL FOR MOUTHPIECES FOR USE WITH SMOKING PRODUCTS OR HNB PRODUCTS, MOUTHPIECES AND CIGARETTE FILTERS COMPRISING SUCH A FILTER MATERIAL AND/OR FILLER MATERIAL, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SUCH A FILTER MATERIAL AND/OR FILLER MATERIAL | CULBERT, COURTNEY GUENTHER | 1747 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 16, 2022 |
| 17431537 | ACETYLATION OF NATURAL FIBRES TO OBTAIN THE FIBROUS STRUCTURE | LEE, HOI YAN NMN | 1693 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 8d | Pending | Aug 17, 2021 |
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