Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Chemistry & Materials
4 pending office actions • 3 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Institut National De Recherche Pour L'Agriculture L'Alimentation Et L'Environnement manages 4 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are distributed among 4 distinct examiners, which indicates that every pending matter is handled by a different official. The workload spans 3 distinct art units, showing technical variety within the company's chemistry-related filings.
MCGANN, BERNADETTE KAREN is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently holding 1 pending action. This busiest examiner pending count of 1 is low relative to the total of 4 pending office actions, suggesting that the portfolio's challenges are spread across the 4 distinct examiners. This distribution may require coordinating responses across multiple different examiner styles and art unit guidelines. Because the 4 pending office actions are not concentrated with a single person, the company benefits from a diversified review process. Practitioners should be prepared to manage 4 distinct examiner relationships to move these 4 pending office actions toward allowance.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 1 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (75%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MCGANN, BERNADETTE KAREN | 1 | 64.6% | +20.3% |
| SMITH, JENNIFER A | 1 | 61.0% | +26.6% |
| MCCLAIN, TYNESHA L. | 1 | 15.8% | +24.2% |
| ABBAS, ABDULRAHMAN MUSTAFA | 1 | 52.4% | +34.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18563491 | OPTIMISED BIO-ELECTROCHEMICAL REACTOR, IN PARTICULAR FOR DEGRADATION OF THE CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND OF AN EFFLUENT | MCGANN, BERNADETTE KAREN | — |
| 18031032 | Agricultural product, and preparation method | SMITH, JENNIFER A | — |
| 17910764 | PROCESS FOR PRODUCING COMPOUNDS OF INTEREST FROM AT LEAST ONE MINERALIZED CONNECTIVE TISSUE, AND COMPOUNDS OF INTEREST DERIVED FROM THIS PRODUCTION PROCESS | MCCLAIN, TYNESHA L. | — |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17435520 | COMPOSITION FOR USE IN THE PREVENTION AND/OR TREATMENT OF DYSBIOSIS | ABBAS, ABDULRAHMAN MUSTAFA | 5d overdue |
| 18563491 | OPTIMISED BIO-ELECTROCHEMICAL REACTOR, IN PARTICULAR FOR DEGRADATION OF THE CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND OF AN EFFLUENT | MCGANN, BERNADETTE KAREN | — |
| 18031032 | Agricultural product, and preparation method | SMITH, JENNIFER A | — |
| 17910764 | PROCESS FOR PRODUCING COMPOUNDS OF INTEREST FROM AT LEAST ONE MINERALIZED CONNECTIVE TISSUE, AND COMPOUNDS OF INTEREST DERIVED FROM THIS PRODUCTION PROCESS | MCCLAIN, TYNESHA L. | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1731 | 1 |
| 1793 | 1 |
| 1612 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18563491 | OPTIMISED BIO-ELECTROCHEMICAL REACTOR, IN PARTICULAR FOR DEGRADATION OF THE CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND OF AN EFFLUENT | MCGANN, BERNADETTE KAREN | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 22, 2023 |
| 18031032 | Agricultural product, and preparation method | SMITH, JENNIFER A | 1731 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 10, 2023 |
| 17910764 | PROCESS FOR PRODUCING COMPOUNDS OF INTEREST FROM AT LEAST ONE MINERALIZED CONNECTIVE TISSUE, AND COMPOUNDS OF INTEREST DERIVED FROM THIS PRODUCTION PROCESS | MCCLAIN, TYNESHA L. | 1793 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 09, 2022 |
| 17435520 | COMPOSITION FOR USE IN THE PREVENTION AND/OR TREATMENT OF DYSBIOSIS | ABBAS, ABDULRAHMAN MUSTAFA | 1612 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 5d overdue | Pending | Sep 01, 2021 |
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