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 • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Countable Labs Inc. maintains a company patent portfolio in the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. The portfolio currently shows 1 pending office action. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and is located within 1 distinct art unit. This indicates a very focused prosecution profile where all current USPTO interaction is limited to a single examiner.
Robert Thomas Crow is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, holding 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Because the total number of pending office actions is 1, Crow is the only examiner currently processing the company's active applications. This concentrated administrative footprint means that the company's current strategy is focused on a single point of review. The 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit suggest that the company is not currently managing a broad range of simultaneous office action responses. Practitioners can expect a singular point of contact within the USPTO for these specific proceedings.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CROW, ROBERT THOMAS | 1 | 41.7% | +32.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19192017 | DETECTION AND DIGITAL QUANTITATION OF MULTIPLE TARGETS | CROW, ROBERT THOMAS | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19192017 | DETECTION AND DIGITAL QUANTITATION OF MULTIPLE TARGETS | CROW, ROBERT THOMAS | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1683 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19192017 | DETECTION AND DIGITAL QUANTITATION OF MULTIPLE TARGETS | CROW, ROBERT THOMAS | 1683 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 28, 2025 |
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