Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Christian-Albrechts-Universitat Zu Kiel is active in the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area and currently has 1 pending office action. This matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, PATEL, SAGAR S. The prosecution of this portfolio is currently focused on a single front, which requires a precise response to the issues raised by the examiner.
The data indicates that 1 distinct art unit is responsible for the examination of the company's pending matter. PATEL, SAGAR S is designated as the busiest examiner, holding 1 busiest examiner pending action. This concentration of the workload under 1 distinct examiner within 1 distinct art unit suggests that the prosecution strategy does not need to account for conflicting examiner styles.
For a practitioner, the presence of 1 pending office action means that resources can be dedicated to resolving this specific case. Because there is only 1 distinct art unit involved, the legal team can focus on the specific precedents and examination trends common to that group. The fact that the busiest examiner pending count is 1 confirms that there are no other pending actions requiring attention across the portfolio.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PATEL, SAGAR S | 1 | 75.7% | +34.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18043609 | ANTIVIRAL PHARMACEUTICAL COMPOSITION FOR TOPICAL ADMINISTRATION | PATEL, SAGAR S | 23d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1626 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18043609 | ANTIVIRAL PHARMACEUTICAL COMPOSITION FOR TOPICAL ADMINISTRATION | PATEL, SAGAR S | 1626 | §112 | Final Rejection | 23d | Pending | Mar 01, 2023 |
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