Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
4 pending office actions • 4 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Johnson & Johnson Enterprise Innovation Inc. has 4 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are assigned to 4 distinct examiners. Furthermore, the portfolio is spread across the distinct art units, showing a high level of technical and administrative dispersion for a portfolio of this size. This suggests that the company's current patent applications cover a variety of specific sub-technologies within the broader medical and mechanical field.
The busiest examiner, SEBASTIAN, KAITLYN E, is responsible for 1 pending office action. Since there are 4 pending actions and the distinct examiners, every examiner involved is currently managing a single action. This parity means that the prosecution workload is perfectly distributed across the distinct art units identified in the data. The lack of concentration in any single art unit or under any single examiner indicates that the company is engaging with a wide array of patent office personnel. This breadth of interaction requires a strategy that accounts for the different practices of separate art units.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (25%) |
| §103 only | 1 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SEBASTIAN, KAITLYN E | 1 | 73.8% | +20.4% |
| WESTFALL, SARAH ANN | 1 | 0.0% | +0.0% |
| STIGELL, THEODORE J | 1 | 78.3% | +14.9% |
| ALLEN, MARIANNE P | 1 | 60.1% | +18.2% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18151305 | MATERIALS AND METHODS OF IL-1BETA BINDING PROTEINS | ALLEN, MARIANNE P | 36d overdue |
| 18495674 | SENSING BIOPSY NEEDLE | WESTFALL, SARAH ANN | 40d |
| 19117843 | ELECTRONICALLY GUIDED PRECISION MEDICAL TARGETING USING NEAR INFRARED FLUORESCENCE IMAGING | SEBASTIAN, KAITLYN E | — |
| 18454998 | TISSUE CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM FOR DETECTING CANCEROUS CELLS | STIGELL, THEODORE J | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18151305 | MATERIALS AND METHODS OF IL-1BETA BINDING PROTEINS | ALLEN, MARIANNE P | 36d overdue |
| 19117843 | ELECTRONICALLY GUIDED PRECISION MEDICAL TARGETING USING NEAR INFRARED FLUORESCENCE IMAGING | SEBASTIAN, KAITLYN E | — |
| 18454998 | TISSUE CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM FOR DETECTING CANCEROUS CELLS | STIGELL, THEODORE J | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3797 | 1 |
| 3791 | 1 |
| 3783 | 1 |
| 1647 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19117843 | ELECTRONICALLY GUIDED PRECISION MEDICAL TARGETING USING NEAR INFRARED FLUORESCENCE IMAGING | SEBASTIAN, KAITLYN E | 3797 | §101§102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 02, 2025 |
| 18495674 | SENSING BIOPSY NEEDLE | WESTFALL, SARAH ANN | 3791 | §103 | Final Rejection | 40d | Pending | Oct 26, 2023 |
| 18454998 | TISSUE CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM FOR DETECTING CANCEROUS CELLS | STIGELL, THEODORE J | 3783 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 24, 2023 |
| 18151305 | MATERIALS AND METHODS OF IL-1BETA BINDING PROTEINS | ALLEN, MARIANNE P | 1647 | §102§112 | Final Rejection | 36d overdue | Pending | Jan 06, 2023 |
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