Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 02, 2026

Ian Lewis

Technology area: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals

1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready

Analysis

Ian Lewis currently manages 1 pending office action within the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. This prosecution activity is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and a distinct art unit, reflecting a concentrated intellectual property strategy. The examiner overseeing this matter is MARTIN, PAUL C, who is the busiest examiner for the portfolio.

The workload for MARTIN, PAUL C consists of a busiest examiner pending action. This specific action represents the total current pending office actions for Ian Lewis in this sector. Because there is a distinct examiner involved, the prosecution team can focus on the preferences and historical patterns of this individual.

The concentration within a distinct art unit simplifies the technical requirements for the legal team. Practitioners can tailor their arguments to the specific standards of that unit without worrying about conflicting interpretations from other examiners. Success in this portfolio depends on the effective resolution of the application currently under review. By focusing on the specific feedback from MARTIN, PAUL C, the company can navigate its current patent challenges in the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals field.

Written from this page's own data; every figure is computed from USPTO records and verified before publication.

Portfolio Summary

1
Total Pending OAs
0
Non-Final OAs
1
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Case Difficulty Mix

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.

0
Hard (0%)
0
Medium (0%)
0
Easy (0%)
1
Unknown (100%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
No statute on record1 (100%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

1
Life Sciences
100% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
0
Mechanical / Eng
0% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

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.

10 h
Manual time on pending OAs
2 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
4 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.1 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
MARTIN, PAUL C 1 41.8% +21.6%

Interview Candidates (1)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
16493565 Device, Method, And System For Identifying Organisms And Determining Their Sensitivity To Toxic Substances Using The Changes In The Concentrations Of Metabolites Present In Growth Medium MARTIN, PAUL C —

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1653 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
16493565 Device, Method, And System For Identifying Organisms And Determining Their Sensitivity To Toxic Substances Using The Changes In The Concentrations Of Metabolites Present In Growth Medium MARTIN, PAUL C 1653 Other Final Rejection — Pending Sep 12, 2019

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