Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals
6 pending office actions • 3 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Labrador Diagnostics LLC is currently managing 6 pending office actions within the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. These actions are distributed across 4 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units, indicating a relatively complex prosecution landscape compared to smaller portfolios. This variety of examiners and art units suggests that the company's diagnostic technologies are being evaluated across several specialized technical fields within the patent office.
ANN Y MONTGOMERY is the busiest examiner for the company, handling 3 pending office actions. This represents 3 of the 6 total pending office actions currently active for the portfolio. With 3 distinct art units involved, the company must navigate multiple technical examination standards simultaneously, which may require a more varied legal strategy to address the specific requirements of each unit while maintaining a cohesive intellectual property position.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 2 (33%) |
| §112 only | 2 (33%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (17%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (17%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MONTGOMERY, ANN Y | 3 | 69.0% | +27.7% |
| NGUYEN, BAO THUY L | 1 | 41.8% | +22.0% |
| GIERE, REBECCA M | 1 | 73.7% | +32.3% |
| TURK, NEIL N | 1 | 51.0% | +44.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13647325 | POINT-OF-CARE FLUIDIC SYSTEMS AND USES THEREOF | TURK, NEIL N | 98d overdue |
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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13647325 | POINT-OF-CARE FLUIDIC SYSTEMS AND USES THEREOF | TURK, NEIL N | 98d overdue |
| 14848032 | MODULAR POINT-OF-CARE DEVICES, SYSTEMS, AND USES THEREOF | MONTGOMERY, ANN Y | 17d overdue |
| 17567555 | REDUCING OPTICAL INTERFERENCE IN A FLUIDIC DEVICE | NGUYEN, BAO THUY L | — |
| 17165249 | MODULAR POINT-OF-CARE DEVICES, SYSTEMS, AND USES THEREOF | MONTGOMERY, ANN Y | — |
| 17007334 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONDUCTING ANIMAL STUDIES | GIERE, REBECCA M | — |
| 14963030 | MODULAR POINT-OF-CARE DEVICES, SYSTEMS, AND USES THEREOF | MONTGOMERY, ANN Y | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1678 | 3 |
| 1677 | 2 |
| 1798 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17567555 | REDUCING OPTICAL INTERFERENCE IN A FLUIDIC DEVICE | NGUYEN, BAO THUY L | 1677 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 03, 2022 |
| 17165249 | MODULAR POINT-OF-CARE DEVICES, SYSTEMS, AND USES THEREOF | MONTGOMERY, ANN Y | 1678 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 02, 2021 |
| 17007334 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONDUCTING ANIMAL STUDIES | GIERE, REBECCA M | 1677 | §112DP | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 31, 2020 |
| 14963030 | MODULAR POINT-OF-CARE DEVICES, SYSTEMS, AND USES THEREOF | MONTGOMERY, ANN Y | 1678 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 08, 2015 |
| 14848032 | MODULAR POINT-OF-CARE DEVICES, SYSTEMS, AND USES THEREOF | MONTGOMERY, ANN Y | 1678 | §112 | Final Rejection | 17d overdue | Pending | Sep 08, 2015 |
| 13647325 | POINT-OF-CARE FLUIDIC SYSTEMS AND USES THEREOF | TURK, NEIL N | 1798 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 98d overdue | Pending | Oct 08, 2012 |
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