Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
4 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 8 patents granted in the last 365 days
Know Bio LLC is currently overseeing 4 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are handled by 3 distinct examiners, which indicates that the workload is not entirely distributed across the USPTO staff. Specifically, the 4 pending office actions are managed by a group of 3 distinct examiners, suggesting that the company is engaging with a small team of officials at the USPTO.
The 4 pending office actions are situated within 3 distinct art units. PORTER, JR, GARY A is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, as he is currently managing 2 pending office actions. This concentration under a single examiner within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering field allows for a more unified prosecution strategy for those specific cases compared to the rest of the portfolio.
A practitioner should note that while 3 distinct examiners are involved, the workload is not perfectly even. Because PORTER, JR, GARY A handles 2 pending office actions, he is a key figure in the company's current USPTO interactions. The presence of 3 distinct art units also suggests that the 4 pending office actions cover a variety of technical subjects, requiring a strategy that balances examiner-specific knowledge with art unit standards.
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 |
|---|---|
| Double-patenting + other | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PORTER, JR, GARY A | 2 | 68.8% | +25.2% |
| LEVICKY, WILLIAM J | 1 | 69.4% | +29.7% |
| ALAWADI, SARAH | 1 | 37.5% | +38.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18480603 | ILLUMINATION DEVICES FOR INDUCING BIOLOGICAL EFFECTS | PORTER, JR, GARY A | 13d |
| 18322257 | ILLUMINATION DEVICES FOR INDUCING BIOLOGICAL EFFECTS | LEVICKY, WILLIAM J | 27d |
| 17656141 | DEVICES AND SYSTEMS FOR IMPLEMENTING THERAPEUTIC TREATMENTS OF LIGHT | PORTER, JR, GARY A | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18480603 | ILLUMINATION DEVICES FOR INDUCING BIOLOGICAL EFFECTS | PORTER, JR, GARY A | 13d |
| 18322257 | ILLUMINATION DEVICES FOR INDUCING BIOLOGICAL EFFECTS | LEVICKY, WILLIAM J | 27d |
| 18036120 | NITRIC OXIDE DONORS, COMPOSITIONS, AND METHODS OF USE | ALAWADI, SARAH | — |
| 17656141 | DEVICES AND SYSTEMS FOR IMPLEMENTING THERAPEUTIC TREATMENTS OF LIGHT | PORTER, JR, GARY A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3796 | 2 |
| 1619 | 1 |
| 3792 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18480603 | ILLUMINATION DEVICES FOR INDUCING BIOLOGICAL EFFECTS | PORTER, JR, GARY A | 3796 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 13d | Pending | Oct 04, 2023 |
| 18322257 | ILLUMINATION DEVICES FOR INDUCING BIOLOGICAL EFFECTS | LEVICKY, WILLIAM J | 3796 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 27d | Pending | May 23, 2023 |
| 18036120 | NITRIC OXIDE DONORS, COMPOSITIONS, AND METHODS OF USE | ALAWADI, SARAH | 1619 | §103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 09, 2023 |
| 17656141 | DEVICES AND SYSTEMS FOR IMPLEMENTING THERAPEUTIC TREATMENTS OF LIGHT | PORTER, JR, GARY A | 3792 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 23, 2022 |
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