Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
6 pending office actions • 3 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Ecovative LLC is currently managing 6 pending office actions within the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. These matters are distributed across 6 distinct examiners, which indicates that each examiner is currently handling exactly 1 pending action for the company. This distribution between actions and examiners suggests a broad spread of technical review across the patent office staff, rather than a concentration of matters under a single individual.
The portfolio spans 3 distinct art units, showing that the 6 pending office actions are clustered within a few specialized groups. AFREMOVA, VERA is identified as the busiest examiner for the portfolio. She is responsible for 1 pending office action, which matches the workload of the other distinct examiners involved in the company's current prosecution efforts. With the workload spread across 3 distinct art units, the company maintains a focused yet distributed presence within the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals sector.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 5 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. 5 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 | 4 (67%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| AFREMOVA, VERA | 1 | 50.5% | +29.1% |
| ALMEIDA BONNIN, ANGELICA ALEJANDRA | 1 | 26.7% | +21.7% |
| CLERKLEY, DANIELLE A | 1 | 52.1% | +46.8% |
| NGUYEN, NGHI V | 1 | 53.6% | +50.8% |
| BOECKELMAN, JACOB A | 1 | 35.2% | +45.6% |
| MOSS, NATALIE M | 1 | 30.8% | +17.1% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18342676 | METHODS OF GENERATING MYCELIAL SCAFFOLDS AND APPLICATIONS THEREOF | NGUYEN, NGHI V | 53d overdue |
| 18360705 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GENERATING MYCELIA GROWTH FROM SUBSTRATES | CLERKLEY, DANIELLE A | 44d overdue |
| 18514792 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING AERIAL MYCELIUM GROWTH BY ELECTRONIC MIST DETECTION | ALMEIDA BONNIN, ANGELICA ALEJANDRA | 6d |
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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18342676 | METHODS OF GENERATING MYCELIAL SCAFFOLDS AND APPLICATIONS THEREOF | NGUYEN, NGHI V | 53d overdue |
| 18360705 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GENERATING MYCELIA GROWTH FROM SUBSTRATES | CLERKLEY, DANIELLE A | 44d overdue |
| 17735956 | EDIBLE AERIAL MYCELIA AND METHODS OF MAKING THE SAME | BOECKELMAN, JACOB A | 24d overdue |
| 18514792 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING AERIAL MYCELIUM GROWTH BY ELECTRONIC MIST DETECTION | ALMEIDA BONNIN, ANGELICA ALEJANDRA | 6d |
| 16519384 | Method of Producing a Mycological Product and Product Made Thereby | MOSS, NATALIE M | 13d |
| 18642656 | GROWTH MEDIA COMPOSITIONS AND GROWTH ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS FOR IMPROVED AERIAL MYCELIUM | AFREMOVA, VERA | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1653 | 3 |
| 3643 | 2 |
| 1655 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18642656 | GROWTH MEDIA COMPOSITIONS AND GROWTH ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS FOR IMPROVED AERIAL MYCELIUM | AFREMOVA, VERA | 1653 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 22, 2024 |
| 18514792 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING AERIAL MYCELIUM GROWTH BY ELECTRONIC MIST DETECTION | ALMEIDA BONNIN, ANGELICA ALEJANDRA | 3643 | §103 | Final Rejection | 6d | Pending | Nov 20, 2023 |
| 18360705 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GENERATING MYCELIA GROWTH FROM SUBSTRATES | CLERKLEY, DANIELLE A | 3643 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 44d overdue | Pending | Jul 27, 2023 |
| 18342676 | METHODS OF GENERATING MYCELIAL SCAFFOLDS AND APPLICATIONS THEREOF | NGUYEN, NGHI V | 1653 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 53d overdue | Pending | Jun 27, 2023 |
| 17735956 | EDIBLE AERIAL MYCELIA AND METHODS OF MAKING THE SAME | BOECKELMAN, JACOB A | 1655 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 24d overdue | Pending | May 03, 2022 |
| 16519384 | Method of Producing a Mycological Product and Product Made Thereby | MOSS, NATALIE M | 1653 | §103 | Final Rejection | 13d | Pending | Jul 23, 2019 |
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