Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Chemistry & Materials
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
The Department of Veterans Affairs has 2 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are assigned to 2 distinct examiners and a corresponding number of distinct art units. DUBOIS, PHILIP A is the busiest examiner for this portfolio.
With 2 pending office actions and 2 distinct examiners, the workload is evenly split. Each examiner is responsible for 1 pending action. The use of multiple distinct art units for these actions suggests that the department's filings in Chemistry & Materials cover different sub-specialties.
Practitioners will need to coordinate across multiple distinct art units and examiners. This lack of concentration means that the outcome of one pending office action may not necessarily predict the outcome of the other, as they are being handled by different personnel in different units. The strategy must be tailored to the specific requirements of each distinct art unit.
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 |
|---|---|
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DUBOIS, PHILIP A | 1 | 25.5% | +26.3% |
| CHO, DAVID H | 1 | 31.9% | +67.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18291021 | ACTIVATED FERRATE SOLUTIONS AND METHODS THEREOF | DUBOIS, PHILIP A | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18264879 | METHODS FOR PREVENTING CANCER RELAPSE | CHO, DAVID H | 80d overdue |
| 18291021 | ACTIVATED FERRATE SOLUTIONS AND METHODS THEREOF | DUBOIS, PHILIP A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1791 | 1 |
| 1693 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18291021 | ACTIVATED FERRATE SOLUTIONS AND METHODS THEREOF | DUBOIS, PHILIP A | 1791 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 22, 2024 |
| 18264879 | METHODS FOR PREVENTING CANCER RELAPSE | CHO, DAVID H | 1693 | §103§112DP | Final Rejection | 80d overdue | Pending | Aug 09, 2023 |
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