Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals
3 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Crystalsfirst GmbH has 2 pending office actions within the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. These active matters are assigned to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. This concentration suggests that the company's current patent applications are being reviewed within a very specific scientific niche by a single office group. This streamlined prosecution environment can lead to more predictable outcomes if the 1 distinct examiner's preferences and technical interpretations are well understood.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is GROSS, CHRISTOPHER M, who manages 2 pending office actions. With a busiest examiner pending count of 2, this examiner is the sole individual responsible for the company's current pending applications. For the practitioner, this means that understanding the specific approach of GROSS, CHRISTOPHER M to biotechnology claims is essential for the successful prosecution of the company's entire active docket. Consistent communication with the 1 distinct examiner will be key to resolving both of the 2 pending office actions.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 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. 3 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 |
|---|---|
| §112 only | 2 (67%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GROSS, CHRISTOPHER M | 3 | 63.5% | +40.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18025103 | ARRAY, SOAKING SOLUTIONS AND METHOD OF SELECTING SOAKING CONDITIONS FOR SMALL MOLECULES IN BIOLOGICAL MACROMOLECULAR CRYSTALS | GROSS, CHRISTOPHER M | 50d overdue |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18025103 | ARRAY, SOAKING SOLUTIONS AND METHOD OF SELECTING SOAKING CONDITIONS FOR SMALL MOLECULES IN BIOLOGICAL MACROMOLECULAR CRYSTALS | GROSS, CHRISTOPHER M | 50d overdue |
| 18025107 | ARRAY, SOAKING SOLUTIONS AND METHOD OF SELECTING SOAKING CONDITIONS FOR SMALL MOLECULES IN BIOLOGICAL MACROMOLECULAR CRYSTALS | GROSS, CHRISTOPHER M | 43d overdue |
| 18025100 | ARRAY, SOAKING SOLUTIONS AND METHOD OF SELECTING SOAKING CONDITIONS FOR SMALL MOLECULES IN BIOLOGICAL MACROMOLECULAR CRYSTALS | GROSS, CHRISTOPHER M | 30d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1684 | 3 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18025100 | ARRAY, SOAKING SOLUTIONS AND METHOD OF SELECTING SOAKING CONDITIONS FOR SMALL MOLECULES IN BIOLOGICAL MACROMOLECULAR CRYSTALS | GROSS, CHRISTOPHER M | 1684 | §112 | Final Rejection | 30d overdue | Pending | Mar 07, 2023 |
| 18025103 | ARRAY, SOAKING SOLUTIONS AND METHOD OF SELECTING SOAKING CONDITIONS FOR SMALL MOLECULES IN BIOLOGICAL MACROMOLECULAR CRYSTALS | GROSS, CHRISTOPHER M | 1684 | §102§112Other | Final Rejection | 50d overdue | Pending | Mar 07, 2023 |
| 18025107 | ARRAY, SOAKING SOLUTIONS AND METHOD OF SELECTING SOAKING CONDITIONS FOR SMALL MOLECULES IN BIOLOGICAL MACROMOLECULAR CRYSTALS | GROSS, CHRISTOPHER M | 1684 | §112 | Final Rejection | 43d overdue | Pending | Mar 07, 2023 |
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