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
Firefly Bio Inc. is active in the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. The company's patent portfolio currently includes 1 pending office action. This prosecution task is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, ANNA GRACE KUCKLA. The portfolio's activity is confined to 1 distinct art unit, suggesting a specialized focus within the broader biotechnology sector. Such concentration allows for a consistent dialogue with the patent office regarding these specific pharmaceutical innovations.
ANNA GRACE KUCKLA is designated as the busiest examiner, with 1 pending office action currently under her review. This examiner manages the full scope of the company's pending office actions. Because there is only 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, the prosecution process is highly streamlined. The 1 pending office action serves as the primary focal point for the company's current interactions with the patent office. This concentration in a single art unit implies that the company is navigating examination guidelines tailored to its particular biological research.
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 |
|---|---|
| §102 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KUCKLA, ANNA GRACE | 1 | 53.2% | +54.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18182251 | PHENYL MALEIMIDE LINKER AGENTS | KUCKLA, ANNA GRACE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1626 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18182251 | PHENYL MALEIMIDE LINKER AGENTS | KUCKLA, ANNA GRACE | 1626 | §102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 10, 2023 |
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