Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
4 pending office actions • 2 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Immundiagnostik AG operates a company patent portfolio within the Biotechnology and Pharmaceuticals technology area. The portfolio currently has 5 pending office actions, which are distributed among 5 distinct examiners. This distribution suggests that the company's intellectual property is being reviewed by a diverse group of individuals rather than being concentrated under a single person.
The prosecution activity spans 3 distinct art units, indicating that the portfolio covers several technical niches within the broader biotechnology sector. The busiest examiner for the portfolio is GERIDO, DWAN A, who is currently managing 1 pending office action. This indicates that even the most active examiner for this company only handles a small portion of the total 5 pending office actions.
For a practitioner, this distribution across 3 distinct art units and 5 distinct examiners requires a flexible prosecution strategy. Each of the pending office actions may encounter different examination styles. Coordination across the 3 distinct art units is necessary to ensure consistency in the company's patent claims and overall portfolio development.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 2 (50%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (25%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GERIDO, DWAN A | 1 | 58.0% | +30.4% |
| XU, XIAOYUN | 1 | 60.0% | +31.8% |
| WESTFALL, SARAH ANN | 1 | 0.0% | +0.0% |
| GORDON, MELENIE LEE | 1 | 22.5% | +45.3% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18685728 | STOOL COLLECTION AND EXTRACTION SYSTEM FOR HUMAN MICROBIOM ANALYSIS | WESTFALL, SARAH ANN | 34d |
| 18610782 | METHOD OF MEASURING THE ENDOCYTIC VITAMIN D STATUS | GERIDO, DWAN A | — |
| 17795487 | TEST AND IN VITRO DIAGNOSIS OF IRRITABLE BOWEL SYNDROME | GORDON, MELENIE LEE | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18610782 | METHOD OF MEASURING THE ENDOCYTIC VITAMIN D STATUS | GERIDO, DWAN A | — |
| 18685753 | DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS OF HISTAMINE INTOLERANCE SYNDROME | XU, XIAOYUN | — |
| 17795487 | TEST AND IN VITRO DIAGNOSIS OF IRRITABLE BOWEL SYNDROME | GORDON, MELENIE LEE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3791 | 1 |
| 1651 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18610782 | METHOD OF MEASURING THE ENDOCYTIC VITAMIN D STATUS | GERIDO, DWAN A | — | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 20, 2024 |
| 18685753 | DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS OF HISTAMINE INTOLERANCE SYNDROME | XU, XIAOYUN | — | §103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 22, 2024 |
| 18685728 | STOOL COLLECTION AND EXTRACTION SYSTEM FOR HUMAN MICROBIOM ANALYSIS | WESTFALL, SARAH ANN | 3791 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 34d | Pending | Feb 22, 2024 |
| 17795487 | TEST AND IN VITRO DIAGNOSIS OF IRRITABLE BOWEL SYNDROME | GORDON, MELENIE LEE | 1651 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 26, 2022 |
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