Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Elo Touch Solutions, Inc. currently faces 2 pending office actions in the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. These actions are spread across 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units, indicating that the company's current prosecution is diversified across different examination groups. This distribution across 2 distinct art units suggests that the company is pursuing multiple distinct technological paths within the biotechnology sector simultaneously.
BENZION, GARY is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, holding 1 pending office action. With 1 pending office action assigned to the busiest examiner out of a total of 2, the workload is split among the involved examiners. This requires the company to manage 2 distinct examiners, as no 1 examiner dominates the current prosecution landscape. The strategy must account for the different perspectives of the examiners to ensure consistent progress. Successfully addressing the 2 pending office actions will be key to expanding the company's presence.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BENZION, GARY | 1 | 21.1% | +13.7% |
| DELEO, VICTORIA LYNN | 1 | 41.4% | -44.4% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18608644 | TRANSGENIC BANANA PLANTS HAVING INCREASED RESISTANCE TO FUSARIUM OXYSPORUM TROPICAL RACE 4 AND METHODS OF PRODUCING SAME | BENZION, GARY | 2d overdue |
| 18470048 | TRANSGENIC BANANA PLANTS HAVING INCREASED RESISTANCE TO FUSARIUM OXYSPORUM TROPICAL RACE 4 AND METHODS OF PRODUCING SAME | DELEO, VICTORIA LYNN | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18608644 | TRANSGENIC BANANA PLANTS HAVING INCREASED RESISTANCE TO FUSARIUM OXYSPORUM TROPICAL RACE 4 AND METHODS OF PRODUCING SAME | BENZION, GARY | 2d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1681 | 1 |
| 1662 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18608644 | TRANSGENIC BANANA PLANTS HAVING INCREASED RESISTANCE TO FUSARIUM OXYSPORUM TROPICAL RACE 4 AND METHODS OF PRODUCING SAME | BENZION, GARY | 1681 | §103§112DP | Final Rejection | 2d overdue | Pending | Mar 18, 2024 |
| 18470048 | TRANSGENIC BANANA PLANTS HAVING INCREASED RESISTANCE TO FUSARIUM OXYSPORUM TROPICAL RACE 4 AND METHODS OF PRODUCING SAME | DELEO, VICTORIA LYNN | 1662 | §102§103§112Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 19, 2023 |
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