Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Groupe Ppd Inc. is currently engaged in the prosecution of 1 pending office action in the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. This active case is located within 1 distinct art unit, suggesting a specialized technical review. The portfolio's current activity is handled by 1 distinct examiner, which limits the number of individual perspectives reviewing the company's work. The busiest examiner is LIU, TRACY, who is responsible for 1 pending office action.
This single action matches the total number of pending office actions for the company. The alignment of 1 pending action with 1 examiner and 1 art unit indicates a highly concentrated prosecution environment. For the applicant, this means that the current progress of their intellectual property depends on a single point of contact within the patent office. There are no other pending actions to provide a broader context for the company's current prosecution experience. This focused structure requires a precise response to the specific requirements of the assigned examiner within the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals field.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (100%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LIU, TRACY | 1 | 54.5% | +27.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18768745 | POROUS MATERIAL AND PROCESS | LIU, TRACY | — |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18768745 | POROUS MATERIAL AND PROCESS | LIU, TRACY | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1614 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18768745 | POROUS MATERIAL AND PROCESS | LIU, TRACY | 1614 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 10, 2024 |
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