Technology area: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Lateral Ip Pty Ltd. currently has 1 pending office action in the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. This prosecution involves 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. The data indicates a concentrated current application process, with all pending activity focused on a single technical review.
STEELE, AMBER D is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, with 1 busiest examiner pending office action. This examiner is responsible for the 1 pending office action currently active for the company. Since the company has 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit involved, the prosecution strategy is presently focused on the requirements of this specific examiner. The outcome of the company's current efforts at the USPTO depends on the evaluation of this 1 pending office action.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| STEELE, AMBER D | 1 | 58.9% | +9.3% |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1658 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18559118 | COMPOSITIONS FOR TREATING INFLAMMATORY AIRWAY DISEASE AND USES THEREOF | STEELE, AMBER D | 1658 | §102§103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 06, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialLateral Ip Pty Ltd. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Amber D Steele has the most, with 1 of Lateral Ip Pty Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals (USPTO Tech Center 1600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
