Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Networking & Security
4 pending office actions • 4 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
DEUTSCHES ZENTRUM FÜR NEURODEGENERATIVE ERKRANKUNGEN E.V. currently manages a patent portfolio with 2 pending office actions. These filings are categorized under the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. The prosecution is distributed across 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units, which indicates that each pending action is being handled by a unique examiner in a unique art unit.
The busiest examiner for the portfolio is BRISTOL, LYNN ANNE, who is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending office action. This single action assigned to BRISTOL, LYNN ANNE is part of the 2 total pending office actions currently tracked for the company. The ratio of actions to distinct examiners suggests a broad distribution of the legal workload across the patent office.
The involvement of the 2 distinct art units highlights that the portfolio's technical subject matter within Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals is being reviewed by different specialized groups. Because there are 2 distinct examiners for the pending actions, the company is not currently facing a concentration of its matters under a single individual beyond the action assigned to the busiest examiner.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 1 (25%) |
| §112 only | 3 (75%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SIMITOSKI, MICHAEL J | 1 | 80.3% | +28.4% |
| CHERNYSHEV, OLGA N | 1 | 54.5% | +34.4% |
| SHUPE, ELIZABETH A | 1 | 66.2% | +44.2% |
| CREWS, JARET JAMES | 1 | 44.7% | +70.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18865088 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR SECURE SWARM LEARNING | SIMITOSKI, MICHAEL J | 8d 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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18865088 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR SECURE SWARM LEARNING | SIMITOSKI, MICHAEL J | 8d overdue |
| 17640119 | HERV INHIBITORS FOR USE IN TREATING TAUOPATHIES | CHERNYSHEV, OLGA N | — |
| 17627077 | NMDA RECEPTOR CONSTRUCTS TO DETECT AND ISOLATE NMDAR AUTOANTIBODIES | SHUPE, ELIZABETH A | — |
| 17263595 | POLYSIALIC ACID AND DERIVATIVES THEREOF, PHARMACEUTICAL COMPOSITION AND METHOD OF PRODUCING POLYSIALIC ACID | CREWS, JARET JAMES | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2493 | 1 |
| 1675 | 1 |
| 1643 | 1 |
| 1691 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18865088 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR SECURE SWARM LEARNING | SIMITOSKI, MICHAEL J | 2493 | §112 | Final Rejection | 8d overdue | Pending | Nov 12, 2024 |
| 17640119 | HERV INHIBITORS FOR USE IN TREATING TAUOPATHIES | CHERNYSHEV, OLGA N | 1675 | §112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 03, 2022 |
| 17627077 | NMDA RECEPTOR CONSTRUCTS TO DETECT AND ISOLATE NMDAR AUTOANTIBODIES | SHUPE, ELIZABETH A | 1643 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 13, 2022 |
| 17263595 | POLYSIALIC ACID AND DERIVATIVES THEREOF, PHARMACEUTICAL COMPOSITION AND METHOD OF PRODUCING POLYSIALIC ACID | CREWS, JARET JAMES | 1691 | §112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 27, 2021 |
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