Technology area: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Inspirna Inc. is managing 2 pending office actions in the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. These actions are split between 2 distinct examiners, ensuring that no single examiner controls the entirety of the pending portfolio. Furthermore, the matters are located in 2 distinct art units, indicating a diverse technological focus for these specific filings. This diversity suggests that the company's intellectual property covers different aspects of biotechnology, each subject to the scrutiny of different specialized groups.
The busiest examiner for the portfolio is HUTTER, GILLIAN A, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. Since there are 2 distinct examiners for 2 pending actions, the workload is distributed across the current pipeline. This arrangement requires the applicant to navigate the specific requirements and examination styles of 2 distinct art units simultaneously. Such a structure prevents a bottleneck at any single examiner's desk, though it does require the legal team to track two separate sets of procedural deadlines.
With the current pending office actions, the company's prosecution activity is focused but varied. The involvement of 2 distinct art units means that the technical arguments used in a single case may not directly apply to the other. However, the shared focus on Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals provides a common framework for the overall strategy. The presence of 2 distinct examiners, including HUTTER, GILLIAN A, provides the company with multiple opportunities to secure patent rights across its technological range.
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 |
|---|---|
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HUTTER, GILLIAN A | 1 | 54.5% | +46.2% |
| FOWLER, ALAN JEROME | 1 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18417491 | COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR INHIBITING CREATINE TRANSPORT AS A TREATMENT FOR CANCER | FOWLER, ALAN JEROME | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18653106 | METHODS OF TREATING CANCER | HUTTER, GILLIAN A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1625 | 1 |
| 1691 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18653106 | METHODS OF TREATING CANCER | HUTTER, GILLIAN A | 1625 | §103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 02, 2024 |
| 18417491 | COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR INHIBITING CREATINE TRANSPORT AS A TREATMENT FOR CANCER | FOWLER, ALAN JEROME | 1691 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 19, 2024 |
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