Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
22 pending office actions • 8 art units • 17 examiners • 0 of 22 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 21 patents granted in the last 365 days
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 21 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 21 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 | 17 (77%) |
| §112 only | 1 (5%) |
| No statute on record | 4 (18%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| EDWARDS, LYDIA E | 3 | 59.9% | +5.6% |
| ESPERON, NATHAN GREGORY | 2 | 41.2% | +25.4% |
| HURST, JONATHAN M | 2 | 53.0% | +18.5% |
| BOWERS, NATHAN ANDREW | 2 | 59.2% | +32.0% |
| LARKIN, DANIEL SEAN | 1 | 82.7% | +7.7% |
| HASSAN, LIBAN M | 1 | 50.1% | +30.8% |
| HUANG, DAVID Z | 1 | 79.8% | +13.7% |
| BHATIA, ANSHU | 1 | 84.4% | +16.9% |
| KRCHA, MATTHEW D | 1 | 65.9% | +35.7% |
| HENKEL, DANIELLE B | 1 | 56.1% | +23.6% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18038756 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR VERIFYING THE INTEGRITY OF A BIOPROCESSING SYSTEM USING PRESSURIZATION | LARKIN, DANIEL SEAN | 40d |
| 18038552 | SYSTEM, METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MIXING A FLUID IN A BIOPROCESSING SYSTEM | BHATIA, ANSHU | 71d |
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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17278718 | MULTICOMPARTMENT BAG FOR CULTIVATION OF CELLS | BOWERS, NATHAN ANDREW | 79d overdue |
| 18031664 | BIOPROCESSING VESSEL HAVING INTEGRAL FLUID CONDUIT | KRCHA, MATTHEW D | 26d overdue |
| 17779986 | SYSTEM HAVING A TUBE SHAFT IMPELLER AND AN ASSOCIATED METHOD THEREOF | HURST, JONATHAN M | 12d |
| 18038732 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR HEAT AND MASS TRANSFER FOR A BIOPROCESSING SYSTEM | HASSAN, LIBAN M | 14d |
| 17998461 | NOVEL HIGH-DENSITY MICROCARRIER RETENTION DEVICE FOR PERFUSION CULTURE AND METHOD OF USE THEREOF | HURST, JONATHAN M | 14d |
| 18045789 | STERILE SENSOR INSERTION | HENKEL, DANIELLE B | 14d |
| 18038742 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR VERIFYING THE INTEGRITY OF A BIOPROCESSING SYSTEM USING MASS BALANCING TECHNIQUES | HUANG, DAVID Z | 27d |
| 17871573 | APPARATUS, SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR THERMAL FOAM DETECTION | BOWERS, NATHAN ANDREW | 29d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1799 | 8 |
| 1796 | 5 |
| 2855 | 2 |
| 1774 | 2 |
| 1798 | 2 |
| 1672 | 1 |
| 1631 | 1 |
| 1687 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18223329 | APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR FACILITATING USE OF A SENSOR WITH A VESSEL | EDWARDS, LYDIA E | 1796 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 34d | Pending | Jul 18, 2023 |
| 18213361 | MULTIFUNCTIONAL BAG PORT AND MATING RING FOR A BIOPROCESSING SYSTEM | EDWARDS, LYDIA E | 1796 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 34d | Pending | Jun 23, 2023 |
| 18038756 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR VERIFYING THE INTEGRITY OF A BIOPROCESSING SYSTEM USING PRESSURIZATION | LARKIN, DANIEL SEAN | 2855 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 40d | Pending | May 25, 2023 |
| 18038732 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR HEAT AND MASS TRANSFER FOR A BIOPROCESSING SYSTEM | HASSAN, LIBAN M | 1799 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 14d | Pending | May 25, 2023 |
| 18038742 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR VERIFYING THE INTEGRITY OF A BIOPROCESSING SYSTEM USING MASS BALANCING TECHNIQUES | HUANG, DAVID Z | 2855 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 27d | Pending | May 25, 2023 |
| 18038552 | SYSTEM, METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MIXING A FLUID IN A BIOPROCESSING SYSTEM | BHATIA, ANSHU | 1774 | §103 | Final Rejection | 71d | Pending | May 24, 2023 |
| 18031664 | BIOPROCESSING VESSEL HAVING INTEGRAL FLUID CONDUIT | KRCHA, MATTHEW D | 1796 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 26d overdue | Pending | Apr 13, 2023 |
| 18247728 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR BIOPROCESS MONITORING | EDWARDS, LYDIA E | 1796 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 27d | Pending | Apr 03, 2023 |
| 18020527 | BIOPROCESSING SYSTEM AND APPARATUS FOR REDUCING CELL SHEAR IN A BIOPROCESSING SYSTEM | ESPERON, NATHAN GREGORY | 1799 | Other | Non-Final OA | 55d | Pending | Feb 09, 2023 |
| 17998461 | NOVEL HIGH-DENSITY MICROCARRIER RETENTION DEVICE FOR PERFUSION CULTURE AND METHOD OF USE THEREOF | HURST, JONATHAN M | 1799 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 14d | Pending | Nov 10, 2022 |
| 18045789 | STERILE SENSOR INSERTION | HENKEL, DANIELLE B | 1799 | Other | Non-Final OA | 14d | Pending | Oct 11, 2022 |
| 17905609 | LINEAR PULSATING TYPE MAGNETIC MIXING SYSTEM AND AN ASSOCIATED METHOD OF OPERATION | SORKIN, DAVID L | 1774 | §103 | Final Rejection | 79d | Pending | Sep 02, 2022 |
| 17871573 | APPARATUS, SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR THERMAL FOAM DETECTION | BOWERS, NATHAN ANDREW | 1799 | §103 | Final Rejection | 29d | Pending | Jul 22, 2022 |
| 17779986 | SYSTEM HAVING A TUBE SHAFT IMPELLER AND AN ASSOCIATED METHOD THEREOF | HURST, JONATHAN M | 1799 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 12d | Pending | May 25, 2022 |
| 17617710 | BIOPROCESSING SYSTEM AND TUBING AND COMPONENT MANAGEMENT APPARATUS FOR A BIOPROCESSING SYSTEM | LEPAGE, JONATHAN EVERETT | 1796 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 43d | Pending | Dec 09, 2021 |
| 17464549 | PERFUSION FILTER MEMBRANE AND METHOD OF USE | GORDON, BRIAN R | 1798 | §103 | Final Rejection | 79d overdue | Pending | Sep 01, 2021 |
| 17423202 | FLUID HANDLING APPARATUS FOR A BIOPROCESSING SYSTEM | KASS, BENJAMIN JOSEPH | 1798 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 34d | Pending | Jul 15, 2021 |
| 17292288 | Bioreactor with Filter | ESPERON, NATHAN GREGORY | 1799 | Other | Non-Final OA | 33d | Pending | May 07, 2021 |
| 17278718 | MULTICOMPARTMENT BAG FOR CULTIVATION OF CELLS | BOWERS, NATHAN ANDREW | 1799 | §112 | Final Rejection | 79d overdue | Pending | Mar 23, 2021 |
| 17108183 | VIRAL VECTOR PURIFICATION APPARATUS AND METHOD | WANG, RUIXUE | 1672 | §103 | Final Rejection | 4d overdue | Pending | Dec 01, 2020 |
| 16968315 | BIOPROCESSING METHODS FOR CELL THERAPY | ZHU, JIANJIAN | 1631 | Other | Final Rejection | 27d | Pending | Aug 07, 2020 |
| 16968374 | BIOPROCESSING METHODS FOR CELL THERAPY | BAILEY, STEVEN WILLIAM | 1687 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 07, 2020 |
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