Technology area: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Fluid Quip Technologies LLC currently manages 2 pending office actions in the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. These matters are assigned to distinct examiners, ensuring that the company's prosecution is not overly dependent on any single official. The actions are also spread across a matching number of distinct art units, which indicates a wide technical distribution for the company's active intellectual property.
CIARA A MCKNIGHT is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, overseeing 1 pending office action. Because the busiest examiner pending count is only half of the 2 total pending office actions, the company must manage multiple separate lines of communication with the patent office. This one to one ratio between actions, examiners, and art units suggests that each application is being treated as a unique technical and procedural challenge. Practitioners should be prepared to adapt their arguments to the specific standards of the various art units and the preferences of the different examiners to advance the pharmaceutical portfolio effectively.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MCKNIGHT, CIARA A | 1 | 61.5% | +40.3% |
| RAMIREZ, DELIA M | 1 | 65.1% | +56.3% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18501501 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING A SUGAR STREAM | RAMIREZ, DELIA M | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18826563 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR INCREASING THE YIELD AND/OR PURITY OF PROTEIN AND OIL FROM A GRAIN PROTEIN AND GRAIN OIL RECOVERY SYSTEM | MCKNIGHT, CIARA A | — |
| 18501501 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING A SUGAR STREAM | RAMIREZ, DELIA M | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1656 | 1 |
| 1652 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18826563 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR INCREASING THE YIELD AND/OR PURITY OF PROTEIN AND OIL FROM A GRAIN PROTEIN AND GRAIN OIL RECOVERY SYSTEM | MCKNIGHT, CIARA A | 1656 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 06, 2024 |
| 18501501 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING A SUGAR STREAM | RAMIREZ, DELIA M | 1652 | §103§112Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 03, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialFluid Quip Technologies LLC has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Ciara A Mcknight has the most, with 1 of Fluid Quip Technologies LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals (USPTO Tech Center 1600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
