Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
16 pending office actions • 7 art units • 14 examiners • 0 of 16 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 12 patents granted in the last 365 days
Global Life Sciences Solutions USA LLC maintains a presence in the Chemistry & Materials technology area with 16 pending office actions. This portfolio is distributed across 8 distinct art units, reflecting a broad technical scope that spans multiple specialized fields. The prosecution involves 14 distinct examiners, which introduces a high degree of variability in how the applications are reviewed. Such a large number of examiners suggests that the company must manage many different negotiation styles and interpretations of patent law.
NATHAN ANDREW BOWERS is the busiest examiner for the company, currently overseeing 3 pending office actions. This concentration of 3 pending office actions with the busiest examiner is a notable exception to the otherwise wide distribution across 14 distinct examiners. The 8 distinct art units involved mean that the legal team must be familiar with the specific practices and trends of many different sections of the patent office. With 16 pending office actions to manage, maintaining a consistent strategy across the Chemistry & Materials portfolio is a complex task. The involvement of so many different examiners and art units underscores the importance of a coordinated approach to prosecution.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 8 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. 8 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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (6%) |
| §103 only | 7 (44%) |
| §112 only | 2 (12%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 6 (38%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BOWERS, NATHAN ANDREW | 3 | 59.4% | +31.9% |
| SEIF, DARIUSH | 1 | 70.5% | +6.2% |
| KIPOUROS, HOLLY MICHAELA | 1 | 69.5% | +21.6% |
| ROSSI, VY BUI | 1 | 29.5% | +36.4% |
| LARKIN, DANIEL SEAN | 1 | 82.6% | +8.0% |
| HASSAN, LIBAN M | 1 | 50.7% | +31.1% |
| HUANG, DAVID Z | 1 | 80.3% | +13.3% |
| BORTOLI, JONATHAN | 1 | 76.3% | +41.2% |
| MCKENZIE, THOMAS B | 1 | 57.3% | +22.6% |
| ESPERON, NATHAN GREGORY | 1 | 41.0% | +23.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18038742 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR VERIFYING THE INTEGRITY OF A BIOPROCESSING SYSTEM USING MASS BALANCING TECHNIQUES | HUANG, DAVID Z | 27d |
| 18038756 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR VERIFYING THE INTEGRITY OF A BIOPROCESSING SYSTEM USING PRESSURIZATION | LARKIN, DANIEL SEAN | 40d |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17905609 | LINEAR PULSATING TYPE MAGNETIC MIXING SYSTEM AND AN ASSOCIATED METHOD OF OPERATION | SORKIN, DAVID L | 79d |
| 18654163 | APPARATUS FOR TRANSPORTING AND INSTALLING A BIOPROCESSING VESSEL | BOWERS, NATHAN ANDREW | — |
| 18585242 | LEVELING SYSTEM FOR A BIOREACTOR SYSTEM | KIPOUROS, HOLLY MICHAELA | — |
| 18256185 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR SCALING IN BIOPROCESS SYSTEMS | ROSSI, VY BUI | — |
| 18038803 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR IN-LINE MONITORING OF A BIOPROCESS FLUID | BORTOLI, JONATHAN | — |
| 18044273 | STERILE FOAM BREAKING SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED METHOD THEREOF | MCKENZIE, THOMAS B | — |
| 18014370 | BIOPROCESSING SYSTEM AND TUBING AND COMPONENT MANAGEMENT APPARATUS FOR A BIOPROCESSING SYSTEM | BEISNER, WILLIAM H | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18038732 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR HEAT AND MASS TRANSFER FOR A BIOPROCESSING SYSTEM | HASSAN, LIBAN M | 14d |
| 18038742 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR VERIFYING THE INTEGRITY OF A BIOPROCESSING SYSTEM USING MASS BALANCING TECHNIQUES | HUANG, DAVID Z | 27d |
| 17617710 | BIOPROCESSING SYSTEM AND TUBING AND COMPONENT MANAGEMENT APPARATUS FOR A BIOPROCESSING SYSTEM | BOWERS, NATHAN ANDREW | 43d |
| 18020527 | BIOPROCESSING SYSTEM AND APPARATUS FOR REDUCING CELL SHEAR IN A BIOPROCESSING SYSTEM | ESPERON, NATHAN GREGORY | 55d |
| 18654163 | APPARATUS FOR TRANSPORTING AND INSTALLING A BIOPROCESSING VESSEL | BOWERS, NATHAN ANDREW | — |
| 18585242 | LEVELING SYSTEM FOR A BIOREACTOR SYSTEM | KIPOUROS, HOLLY MICHAELA | — |
| 18256185 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR SCALING IN BIOPROCESS SYSTEMS | ROSSI, VY BUI | — |
| 18038803 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR IN-LINE MONITORING OF A BIOPROCESS FLUID | BORTOLI, JONATHAN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1799 | 5 |
| 2855 | 2 |
| 1678 | 1 |
| 1776 | 1 |
| 1774 | 1 |
| 1796 | 1 |
| 1798 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18654163 | APPARATUS FOR TRANSPORTING AND INSTALLING A BIOPROCESSING VESSEL | BOWERS, NATHAN ANDREW | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 03, 2024 |
| 18699939 | APPARATUS, SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR PACKAGING A BIOPROCESSING BAG | SEIF, DARIUSH | — | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 10, 2024 |
| 18585242 | LEVELING SYSTEM FOR A BIOREACTOR SYSTEM | KIPOUROS, HOLLY MICHAELA | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 23, 2024 |
| 18256185 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR SCALING IN BIOPROCESS SYSTEMS | ROSSI, VY BUI | — | §101§102DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 06, 2023 |
| 18038756 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR VERIFYING THE INTEGRITY OF A BIOPROCESSING SYSTEM USING PRESSURIZATION | LARKIN, DANIEL SEAN | 2855 | §103 | Final Rejection | 40d | Pending | May 25, 2023 |
| 18038732 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR HEAT AND MASS TRANSFER FOR A BIOPROCESSING SYSTEM | HASSAN, LIBAN M | 1799 | §112 | Final Rejection | 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 | Final Rejection | 27d | Pending | May 25, 2023 |
| 18038803 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR IN-LINE MONITORING OF A BIOPROCESS FLUID | BORTOLI, JONATHAN | 1678 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 25, 2023 |
| 18044273 | STERILE FOAM BREAKING SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED METHOD THEREOF | MCKENZIE, THOMAS B | 1776 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 07, 2023 |
| 18020527 | BIOPROCESSING SYSTEM AND APPARATUS FOR REDUCING CELL SHEAR IN A BIOPROCESSING SYSTEM | ESPERON, NATHAN GREGORY | 1799 | §103Other | Final Rejection | 55d | Pending | Feb 09, 2023 |
| 18014370 | BIOPROCESSING SYSTEM AND TUBING AND COMPONENT MANAGEMENT APPARATUS FOR A BIOPROCESSING SYSTEM | BEISNER, WILLIAM H | 1799 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 04, 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 |
| 17905609 | LINEAR PULSATING TYPE MAGNETIC MIXING SYSTEM AND AN ASSOCIATED METHOD OF OPERATION | SORKIN, DAVID L | 1774 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 79d | Pending | Sep 02, 2022 |
| 17617710 | BIOPROCESSING SYSTEM AND TUBING AND COMPONENT MANAGEMENT APPARATUS FOR A BIOPROCESSING SYSTEM | BOWERS, NATHAN ANDREW | 1796 | §103 | Final Rejection | 43d | Pending | Dec 09, 2021 |
| 17423202 | FLUID HANDLING APPARATUS FOR A BIOPROCESSING SYSTEM | KASS, BENJAMIN JOSEPH | 1798 | §103 | Final Rejection | 34d | Pending | Jul 15, 2021 |
| 16625173 | Bioreactors with Filters | BOWERS, NATHAN ANDREW | 1799 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 20, 2019 |
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