Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Evercorn Inc. currently has 1 pending office action within the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, BRANDSEN, BENJAMIN MICHAEL, who is also the busiest examiner for the portfolio with 1 pending office action. The prosecution is localized in 1 distinct art unit, indicating a concentrated focus on a specific area of biotechnology. For practitioners, this means the entire current workload is subject to the interpretation of a single examiner. This centralized structure allows for a very specific and tailored prosecution strategy.
The presence of 1 distinct art unit suggests that the company's current patent efforts are not fragmented across different examination groups. Because BRANDSEN, BENJAMIN MICHAEL is the only examiner involved, the applicant can focus on addressing this individual's specific concerns and preferences. In the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals field, where examination can be particularly detailed, having only 1 pending office action allows for a high degree of focus. The administrative overhead for managing this portfolio is limited, as there is only 1 pending office action to monitor. This allows the legal team to dedicate more time to the technical merits of the single application.
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 (100%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BRANDSEN, BENJAMIN MICHAEL | 1 | 60.2% | +18.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18227663 | BIO-BASED STARCH MIXED ESTER BIODEGRADABLE AND/OR COMPOSTABLE COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR MAKING THE SAME | BRANDSEN, BENJAMIN MICHAEL | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1693 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18227663 | BIO-BASED STARCH MIXED ESTER BIODEGRADABLE AND/OR COMPOSTABLE COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR MAKING THE SAME | BRANDSEN, BENJAMIN MICHAEL | 1693 | §103Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 28, 2023 |
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