Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
4 pending office actions • 3 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 8 patents granted in the last 365 days
Fondazione Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia is managing 4 pending office actions in the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. These actions are spread across 3 distinct art units, which indicates that the foundation's biotechnology research is being evaluated by several different specialized technical groups. This distribution across 3 distinct art units suggests a broad research agenda that touches on multiple facets of pharmaceutical technology. The 4 pending office actions represent a significant ongoing effort to protect the foundation's technical innovations. This structure allows the foundation to receive feedback from multiple reviewers across different technical disciplines.
RUSH, ERIC is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently overseeing 1 pending office action. The foundation's workload is perfectly dispersed among 4 distinct examiners, with each examiner responsible for a single pending matter. This 1 to 1 ratio between 4 pending office actions and 4 distinct examiners ensures a wide variety of examiner interactions and reduces the impact of any single examiner's perspective. Such a high degree of examiner diversity across 3 distinct art units is typical for a research foundation with a varied technological output. No single examiner has a dominant influence over the foundation's pending applications.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (25%) |
| §103 only | 1 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| RUSH, ERIC | 1 | 60.8% | +36.1% |
| LEE, SHUN K | 1 | 42.2% | +16.3% |
| HANEY, AMANDA MARIE | 1 | 36.4% | +44.9% |
| SHOMER, ISAAC | 1 | 63.2% | +30.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18245559 | Multi-targeting cell-derived nanoparticles as a versatile theranostic | SHOMER, ISAAC | 22d |
| 18712268 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM | RUSH, ERIC | — |
| 18570201 | MARKER FOR DNA DAMAGE IN PROXIMITY OF TRANSCRIBED GENOMIC LOCI AND METHODS FOR IDENTIFYING AND/OR QUANTIFYING THESE DNA DAMAGES | HANEY, AMANDA MARIE | — |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18245559 | Multi-targeting cell-derived nanoparticles as a versatile theranostic | SHOMER, ISAAC | 22d |
| 18712268 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM | RUSH, ERIC | — |
| 18573171 | SIMULTANEOUS MULTI-SPECIES SUPER-RESOLUTION IMAGING VIA TEMPORAL MULTIPLEXING AND SINGLE- PHOTON DETECTOR ARRAY | LEE, SHUN K | — |
| 18570201 | MARKER FOR DNA DAMAGE IN PROXIMITY OF TRANSCRIBED GENOMIC LOCI AND METHODS FOR IDENTIFYING AND/OR QUANTIFYING THESE DNA DAMAGES | HANEY, AMANDA MARIE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2884 | 1 |
| 1682 | 1 |
| 1612 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18712268 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM | RUSH, ERIC | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 02, 2024 |
| 18573171 | SIMULTANEOUS MULTI-SPECIES SUPER-RESOLUTION IMAGING VIA TEMPORAL MULTIPLEXING AND SINGLE- PHOTON DETECTOR ARRAY | LEE, SHUN K | 2884 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 21, 2023 |
| 18570201 | MARKER FOR DNA DAMAGE IN PROXIMITY OF TRANSCRIBED GENOMIC LOCI AND METHODS FOR IDENTIFYING AND/OR QUANTIFYING THESE DNA DAMAGES | HANEY, AMANDA MARIE | 1682 | §101§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 14, 2023 |
| 18245559 | Multi-targeting cell-derived nanoparticles as a versatile theranostic | SHOMER, ISAAC | 1612 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 22d | Pending | Mar 16, 2023 |
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