Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Chemistry & Materials • Computing & Software
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Integenx Inc. has 3 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These matters are assigned to 3 distinct examiners and are being reviewed across a corresponding number of distinct art units. This ratio between pending actions, examiners, and art units indicates that every active case in the portfolio is being handled by a different individual in a different technical group.
The busiest examiner, QIAN, SHIZHI, is currently managing 1 busiest examiner pending action. Given the total count of pending office actions, no individual examiner holds a majority of the active cases. The use of the distinct examiners suggests a decentralized prosecution environment where each application is subject to a different examiner's perspective.
The distinct art units involved show that the company's chemistry and materials innovations are being evaluated by separate specialized divisions. This spread across examiners means that the company's legal strategy must account for independent sets of examiner preferences and timelines.
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 only | 1 (33%) |
| §101 + other | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| QIAN, SHIZHI | 1 | 61.8% | +47.9% |
| SAX, STEVEN PAUL | 1 | 69.0% | +45.9% |
| GREENE, CAROLYN LEE | 1 | 65.3% | +47.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18814847 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SAMPLE PREPARATION, PROCESSING AND ANALYSIS | QIAN, SHIZHI | — |
| 18326519 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR LIVE HELP | SAX, STEVEN PAUL | — |
| 17311263 | CONTROLLING DNA CONCENTRATION FOR STR ANALYSIS | GREENE, CAROLYN 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18814847 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SAMPLE PREPARATION, PROCESSING AND ANALYSIS | QIAN, SHIZHI | — |
| 18326519 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR LIVE HELP | SAX, STEVEN PAUL | — |
| 17311263 | CONTROLLING DNA CONCENTRATION FOR STR ANALYSIS | GREENE, CAROLYN LEE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1795 | 1 |
| 2146 | 1 |
| 1681 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18814847 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SAMPLE PREPARATION, PROCESSING AND ANALYSIS | QIAN, SHIZHI | 1795 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 26, 2024 |
| 18326519 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR LIVE HELP | SAX, STEVEN PAUL | 2146 | §101§103§112Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 31, 2023 |
| 17311263 | CONTROLLING DNA CONCENTRATION FOR STR ANALYSIS | GREENE, CAROLYN LEE | 1681 | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 04, 2021 |
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