Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Communications
5 pending office actions • 2 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 9 patents granted in the last 365 days
Insitro Inc. is managing 5 pending office actions within the Communications technology area. These matters are distributed among 4 distinct examiners across 2 distinct art units. This indicates that at least one examiner is handling multiple applications for the company, while the overall workload is concentrated within just two specialized groups. The focus on 2 distinct art units suggests a relatively narrow technical scope within the communications field.
GEBRESLASSIE, WINTA is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently overseeing 2 busiest examiner pending actions. With 5 pending office actions in total, this examiner handles a significant portion of the company's active workload. The concentration of five actions within only 2 distinct art units suggests a focused review process within the communications department. Practitioners should note that the company's prosecution success is heavily influenced by the 4 distinct examiners assigned to these matters.
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 (40%) |
| §112 only | 1 (20%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (40%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GEBRESLASSIE, WINTA | 2 | 77.1% | +23.6% |
| RIVERA-MARTINEZ, GUILLERMO M | 1 | 78.0% | +3.3% |
| ISLAM, PROMOTTO TAJRIAN | 1 | 77.4% | +13.8% |
| VANN-OJUEKAIYE, KENDRA RAYCHELL | 1 | 0.0% | +0.0% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18592877 | AUTONOMOUS MAINTENANCE AND DIFFERENTIATION OF INDUCED PLURIPOTENCY CELLS | ISLAM, PROMOTTO TAJRIAN | — |
| 18113481 | POOLED OPTICAL SCREENING AND TRANSCRIPTIONAL MEASUREMENTS OF CELLS COMPRISING BARCODED GENETIC PERTURBATIONS | VANN-OJUEKAIYE, KENDRA RAYCHELL | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19177402 | MACHINE-LEARNING-ENABLED PREDICTIVE BIOMARKER DISCOVERY AND PATIENT STRATIFICATION USING STANDARD-OF-CARE DATA | GEBRESLASSIE, WINTA | 71d |
| 19205753 | MACHINE-LEARNING-ENABLED PREDICTIVE BIOMARKER DISCOVERY AND PATIENT STRATIFICATION USING STANDARD-OF-CARE DATA | GEBRESLASSIE, WINTA | — |
| 18592877 | AUTONOMOUS MAINTENANCE AND DIFFERENTIATION OF INDUCED PLURIPOTENCY CELLS | ISLAM, PROMOTTO TAJRIAN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2677 | 3 |
| 1682 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19205753 | MACHINE-LEARNING-ENABLED PREDICTIVE BIOMARKER DISCOVERY AND PATIENT STRATIFICATION USING STANDARD-OF-CARE DATA | GEBRESLASSIE, WINTA | 2677 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 12, 2025 |
| 19177402 | MACHINE-LEARNING-ENABLED PREDICTIVE BIOMARKER DISCOVERY AND PATIENT STRATIFICATION USING STANDARD-OF-CARE DATA | GEBRESLASSIE, WINTA | 2677 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 71d | Pending | Apr 11, 2025 |
| 18666672 | CELLULAR TIME-SERIES IMAGING, MODELING, AND ANALYSIS SYSTEM | RIVERA-MARTINEZ, GUILLERMO M | 2677 | §112 | Final Rejection | 29d | Pending | May 16, 2024 |
| 18592877 | AUTONOMOUS MAINTENANCE AND DIFFERENTIATION OF INDUCED PLURIPOTENCY CELLS | ISLAM, PROMOTTO TAJRIAN | — | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 01, 2024 |
| 18113481 | POOLED OPTICAL SCREENING AND TRANSCRIPTIONAL MEASUREMENTS OF CELLS COMPRISING BARCODED GENETIC PERTURBATIONS | VANN-OJUEKAIYE, KENDRA RAYCHELL | 1682 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 23, 2023 |
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