Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Holistic Hemp Solutions Inc. is currently navigating 2 pending office actions in the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. These actions are distributed across 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units, showing a slight diversification in its prosecution landscape. TIEN, LUCY MINYU is the busiest examiner for the company, currently overseeing 1 busiest examiner pending office action. With 2 pending office actions, the company must manage multiple separate examination tracks simultaneously.
The involvement of 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units means the applicant is subject to the varying procedural nuances of different offices within the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals sector. Although TIEN, LUCY MINYU is the busiest examiner with 1 busiest examiner pending action, the workload is split across the different officials. This distribution requires a broader strategy than a single-examiner portfolio. The presence of 2 distinct art units indicates that the company's technology spans multiple specialized areas. Managing the workload across different units requires careful coordination to ensure consistent messaging while addressing the unique requirements of each examiner.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TIEN, LUCY MINYU | 1 | 59.3% | +39.2% |
| TRUONG, QUANGLONG N | 1 | 78.8% | +23.6% |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18179863 | TINCTURE CONTAINING CANNABINOIDS, METHOD OF USING, AND METHOD OF MAKING THE SAME | TRUONG, QUANGLONG N | 50d overdue |
| 18331443 | BROAD SPECTRUM CANNABINOID AND TERPENE MINERAL SALVE, METHOD OF USING, AND METHOD OF MAKING THE SAME | TIEN, LUCY MINYU | 24d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1612 | 1 |
| 1615 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18331443 | BROAD SPECTRUM CANNABINOID AND TERPENE MINERAL SALVE, METHOD OF USING, AND METHOD OF MAKING THE SAME | TIEN, LUCY MINYU | 1612 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 24d overdue | Pending | Jun 08, 2023 |
| 18179863 | TINCTURE CONTAINING CANNABINOIDS, METHOD OF USING, AND METHOD OF MAKING THE SAME | TRUONG, QUANGLONG N | 1615 | §103 | Final Rejection | 50d overdue | Pending | Mar 07, 2023 |
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