Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Lallemand Hungary Liquidity Management LLC manages a company patent portfolio in the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. There are currently 3 pending office actions within this portfolio, reflecting an active phase of prosecution. These actions are spread across 3 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units. This distribution shows a degree of variety, with each pending action being reviewed by a different examiner in a different specialized group at the patent office.
The busiest examiner is CURRENS, GRANT CARSON, who is currently handling 1 busiest examiner pending action. Because there are 3 pending office actions in total and 3 distinct examiners, the workload is distributed, with each examiner responsible for a single pending matter. This lack of concentration across the 3 distinct art units suggests that the company's intellectual property covers diverse aspects of biotechnology. For a practitioner, this means that the outcomes of the 3 pending office actions are likely to be independent of one another, as they are subject to the different interpretations of three separate examiners. The distinct art units further ensure that the pending office actions are evaluated under different technical standards.
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 | 2 (100%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DURYEE, ALEXANDER MARSH | 1 | 33.3% | +41.6% |
| CURRENS, GRANT CARSON | 1 | 54.6% | +62.5% |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18537410 | BACTERIAL AND YEAST COMBINATIONS FOR REDUCING GREENHOUSE GAS PRODUCTION DURING FERMENTATION OF BIOMASS COMPRISING PENTOSES | DURYEE, ALEXANDER MARSH | — |
| 18537421 | BACTERIAL AND YEAST COMBINATIONS FOR REDUCING GREENHOUSE GAS PRODUCTION DURING FERMENTATION OF BIOMASS COMPRISING HEXOSES | CURRENS, GRANT CARSON | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1657 | 1 |
| 1651 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18537410 | BACTERIAL AND YEAST COMBINATIONS FOR REDUCING GREENHOUSE GAS PRODUCTION DURING FERMENTATION OF BIOMASS COMPRISING PENTOSES | DURYEE, ALEXANDER MARSH | 1657 | §103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 12, 2023 |
| 18537421 | BACTERIAL AND YEAST COMBINATIONS FOR REDUCING GREENHOUSE GAS PRODUCTION DURING FERMENTATION OF BIOMASS COMPRISING HEXOSES | CURRENS, GRANT CARSON | 1651 | §103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 12, 2023 |
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