Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Communications
4 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Genome International Corporation has 4 pending office actions within the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. This portfolio shows activity concentrated in a single broad technical field. The 4 actions are distributed among 3 distinct examiners, which indicates that at least one examiner is handling multiple applications for the company.
The prosecution involves 3 distinct art units, matching the number of distinct examiners. This one-to-one ratio between examiners and art units suggests that each examiner is operating within a different specialized group at the patent office. Practitioners must navigate three different administrative environments to manage these 4 pending actions.
SMITH, EMILIE ALINE is the busiest examiner for this entity, with 2 busiest examiner pending actions. This individual manages a larger share of the total 4 pending office actions for the portfolio. The remaining actions are split among the other 2 distinct examiners, making SMITH, EMILIE ALINE a primary point of contact for the company's current patent office interactions.
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 | 3 (75%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (25%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SMITH, EMILIE ALINE | 2 | 49.4% | +35.4% |
| COBB, MICHAEL J | 1 | 76.7% | +36.2% |
| MINCHELLA, KAITLYN L | 1 | 26.7% | +21.8% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18129766 | TRAVELING IN TIME AND SPACE CONTINUUM | COBB, MICHAEL J | 29d |
| 18188389 | IDENTIFYING GENOME FEATURES IN HEALTH AND DISEASE | SMITH, EMILIE ALINE | — |
| 17698919 | UNIFIED PORTAL FOR REGULATORY AND SPLICING ELEMENTS FOR GENOME ANALYSIS | MINCHELLA, KAITLYN L | — |
| 17698868 | PRECISION MEDICINE PORTAL FOR HUMAN DISEASES | SMITH, EMILIE ALINE | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18129766 | TRAVELING IN TIME AND SPACE CONTINUUM | COBB, MICHAEL J | 29d |
| 18188389 | IDENTIFYING GENOME FEATURES IN HEALTH AND DISEASE | SMITH, EMILIE ALINE | — |
| 17698919 | UNIFIED PORTAL FOR REGULATORY AND SPLICING ELEMENTS FOR GENOME ANALYSIS | MINCHELLA, KAITLYN L | — |
| 17698868 | PRECISION MEDICINE PORTAL FOR HUMAN DISEASES | SMITH, EMILIE ALINE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2615 | 1 |
| 1685 | 1 |
| 1686 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18129766 | TRAVELING IN TIME AND SPACE CONTINUUM | COBB, MICHAEL J | 2615 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 29d | Pending | Mar 31, 2023 |
| 18188389 | IDENTIFYING GENOME FEATURES IN HEALTH AND DISEASE | SMITH, EMILIE ALINE | — | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 22, 2023 |
| 17698919 | UNIFIED PORTAL FOR REGULATORY AND SPLICING ELEMENTS FOR GENOME ANALYSIS | MINCHELLA, KAITLYN L | 1685 | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 18, 2022 |
| 17698868 | PRECISION MEDICINE PORTAL FOR HUMAN DISEASES | SMITH, EMILIE ALINE | 1686 | §101§102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 18, 2022 |
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