Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Chemistry & Materials
15 pending office actions • 10 art units • 15 examiners • 0 of 15 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 28 patents granted in the last 365 days
The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research operates in the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. The organization currently has 16 pending office actions. These actions are distributed among 16 distinct examiners, which means that every active matter is being reviewed by a different person.
The portfolio's activity spans 11 distinct art units. This high number of units reflects a broad range of technical research, with filings spread across many different specialized administrative groups. DOYLE, BRANDI M is the busiest examiner for the portfolio.
DOYLE, BRANDI M is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending action. Given that there are 16 pending office actions in total, this examiner handles 1 of the 16 active workload matters. The fact that 16 distinct examiners are working across 11 distinct art units indicates a highly decentralized prosecution environment where no two active cases are currently being evaluated by the same individual.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 7 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. 7 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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 3 (20%) |
| §112 only | 3 (20%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 8 (53%) |
| No statute on record | 1 (7%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DOYLE, BRANDI M | 1 | 62.7% | +11.9% |
| CONLEY, SEAN EVERETT | 1 | 70.6% | +11.6% |
| BRADY, KRISTEN WEEKS | 1 | 0.0% | +0.0% |
| ELLABIB, MAAP AHMED | 1 | 64.0% | +37.3% |
| PHAN, TRUONG D | 1 | 68.6% | +16.6% |
| BARRERA, IMMACULADA | 1 | 31.0% | +80.0% |
| POLLOCK, AUSTIN M | 1 | 51.3% | +36.1% |
| DAVIS, BRIAN J | 1 | 84.8% | -4.0% |
| PAGANO, ALEXANDER R | 1 | 78.7% | +11.3% |
| KOROTCHKINA, LIOUBOV G | 1 | 29.5% | +67.7% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18044269 | FLOCCULANT BASED DISINFECTION PROCESS FOR PATHOGENIC MEDICAL WASTE DISPOSAL | DAVIS, BRIAN J | 76d |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18255748 | A PROCESS AND A KIT FOR DETECTION OF CORONAVIRUS AND OTHER RESPIRATORY VIRUSES | BARRERA, IMMACULADA | 49d overdue |
| 17789357 | HIGHLY SELECTIVE ULTRATHIN POLYMER NANOFILM COMPOSITE MEMBRANE AND PROCESS FOR PREPARATION THEREOF | HUANG, RYAN | 34d |
| 19040498 | CRUDE PETROLEUM OIL PROCESSING METHOD FOR CRUDE DISTILLATION UNIT | DOYLE, BRANDI M | — |
| 18697616 | Continuous Flow Reactor and Process for Synthesis of Substituted Benzoic Acid | BRADY, KRISTEN WEEKS | — |
| 18684627 | A QUADRA LAMINA FACE MASK | ELLABIB, MAAP AHMED | — |
| 18252879 | PROCESS FOR PRODUCING SPHERICAL POWDERS OF NOVEL MULTICOMPONENT BASED SHAPE MEMORY ALLOYS AND ALLOYS MADE BY THE PROCESS | POLLOCK, AUSTIN M | — |
| 18001117 | PROCESS FOR SYNTHESIS OF POLY-GAMMA-GLUTAMIC ACID | KOROTCHKINA, LIOUBOV G | — |
| 18272507 | ZEOLITE CATALYST, PROCESS FOR PREPARATION AND APPLICATION THEREOF | KETCHAM, HANNAH ELIZABETH | — |
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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18255748 | A PROCESS AND A KIT FOR DETECTION OF CORONAVIRUS AND OTHER RESPIRATORY VIRUSES | BARRERA, IMMACULADA | 49d overdue |
| 18042169 | AUTOMATED DIAZOMETHANE GENERATOR, REACTOR AND SOLID PHASE QUENCHER | PAGANO, ALEXANDER R | 36d |
| 19040498 | CRUDE PETROLEUM OIL PROCESSING METHOD FOR CRUDE DISTILLATION UNIT | DOYLE, BRANDI M | — |
| 18698530 | AN IMPROVED DISINFECTION-SOLIDIFICATION PROCESS FOR PATHOGENIC MEDICAL WASTE DISPOSAL | CONLEY, SEAN EVERETT | — |
| 18684627 | A QUADRA LAMINA FACE MASK | ELLABIB, MAAP AHMED | — |
| 18264238 | METAL OXIDE-POLYMER NANO COMPOSITE FOR AMMONIA SENSING AT TEMPERATURES BELOW AMBIENT INCLUDING SUB-ZERO TEMPERATURES | PHAN, TRUONG D | — |
| 18252879 | PROCESS FOR PRODUCING SPHERICAL POWDERS OF NOVEL MULTICOMPONENT BASED SHAPE MEMORY ALLOYS AND ALLOYS MADE BY THE PROCESS | POLLOCK, AUSTIN M | — |
| 18001117 | PROCESS FOR SYNTHESIS OF POLY-GAMMA-GLUTAMIC ACID | KOROTCHKINA, LIOUBOV G | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1692 | 3 |
| 1799 | 1 |
| 1796 | 1 |
| 1671 | 1 |
| 1738 | 1 |
| 1614 | 1 |
| 1653 | 1 |
| 1693 | 1 |
| 1777 | 1 |
| 1628 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19040498 | CRUDE PETROLEUM OIL PROCESSING METHOD FOR CRUDE DISTILLATION UNIT | DOYLE, BRANDI M | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 29, 2025 |
| 18698530 | AN IMPROVED DISINFECTION-SOLIDIFICATION PROCESS FOR PATHOGENIC MEDICAL WASTE DISPOSAL | CONLEY, SEAN EVERETT | 1799 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 04, 2024 |
| 18697616 | Continuous Flow Reactor and Process for Synthesis of Substituted Benzoic Acid | BRADY, KRISTEN WEEKS | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 01, 2024 |
| 18684627 | A QUADRA LAMINA FACE MASK | ELLABIB, MAAP AHMED | — | §103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 16, 2024 |
| 18264238 | METAL OXIDE-POLYMER NANO COMPOSITE FOR AMMONIA SENSING AT TEMPERATURES BELOW AMBIENT INCLUDING SUB-ZERO TEMPERATURES | PHAN, TRUONG D | 1796 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 03, 2023 |
| 18255748 | A PROCESS AND A KIT FOR DETECTION OF CORONAVIRUS AND OTHER RESPIRATORY VIRUSES | BARRERA, IMMACULADA | 1671 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 49d overdue | Pending | Jun 02, 2023 |
| 18252879 | PROCESS FOR PRODUCING SPHERICAL POWDERS OF NOVEL MULTICOMPONENT BASED SHAPE MEMORY ALLOYS AND ALLOYS MADE BY THE PROCESS | POLLOCK, AUSTIN M | 1738 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 14, 2023 |
| 18044269 | FLOCCULANT BASED DISINFECTION PROCESS FOR PATHOGENIC MEDICAL WASTE DISPOSAL | DAVIS, BRIAN J | 1614 | §112 | Final Rejection | 76d | Pending | Mar 07, 2023 |
| 18042169 | AUTOMATED DIAZOMETHANE GENERATOR, REACTOR AND SOLID PHASE QUENCHER | PAGANO, ALEXANDER R | 1692 | §112 | Final Rejection | 36d | Pending | Feb 17, 2023 |
| 18001117 | PROCESS FOR SYNTHESIS OF POLY-GAMMA-GLUTAMIC ACID | KOROTCHKINA, LIOUBOV G | 1653 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 08, 2022 |
| 17753239 | SOLVENT FREE CONTINUOUS PROCESS FOR THE SYNTHESIS OF METFORMIN HYROCHLORIDE | KELLY-O'NEILL, YOLANDA LYNNETTE | 1692 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 56d | Pending | Feb 24, 2022 |
| 18272507 | ZEOLITE CATALYST, PROCESS FOR PREPARATION AND APPLICATION THEREOF | KETCHAM, HANNAH ELIZABETH | 1692 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 14, 2023 |
| 18022855 | PROCESS FOR THE DIRECT CONVERSION OF CELLULOSE TO GLYCOLS USING NON-NOBLE METAL LOADED ZEOLITE CATALYSTS | MCINTOSH III, TRAVISS C | 1693 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 20d | Pending | Feb 23, 2023 |
| 17789357 | HIGHLY SELECTIVE ULTRATHIN POLYMER NANOFILM COMPOSITE MEMBRANE AND PROCESS FOR PREPARATION THEREOF | HUANG, RYAN | 1777 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 34d | Pending | Jun 27, 2022 |
| 17755556 | ANTI-INFLAMMATORY COMPOUNDS FOR USE IN THE TREATMENT OF DERMAL DISORDERS | CLARK, AMY LYNN | 1628 | Other | Non-Final OA | 27d | Pending | May 02, 2022 |
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