Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Light Bio Inc. has 2 pending office actions currently active in the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. These actions are split between 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. This distribution shows that each pending matter is being handled by a different individual in a different technical group, requiring a specialized approach for each filing.
The busiest examiner for the portfolio is JOHNSON, EMILY KATHARINE, who is handling 1 pending office action. This workload is distributed such that no single individual manages all 2 pending office actions. This means that no single examiner has a majority influence over the company's current pending matters.
With 2 distinct art units involved, the company must navigate the specific examination guidelines of different technical divisions. The presence of 2 distinct examiners, including JOHNSON, EMILY KATHARINE, suggests that the prosecution outcomes will depend on the individual interpretations of these separate officials.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 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 (33%) |
| §112 only | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LOUNTOS, GEORGE THEMISTOCLIS | 1 | 57.1% | +60.0% |
| JOHNSON, EMILY KATHARINE | 1 | 87.5% | +21.9% |
| ROBINSON, HOPE A | 1 | 67.7% | +43.1% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18415180 | NOVEL LUCIFERASES AND METHODS FOR USING SAME | JOHNSON, EMILY KATHARINE | 60d overdue |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18816641 | MODIFIED BIOLUMINESCENT ENZYMES | LOUNTOS, GEORGE THEMISTOCLIS | — |
| 18244763 | ENZYMES OF LUCIFERIN BIOSYNTHESIS AND USE THEREOF | ROBINSON, HOPE 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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18415180 | NOVEL LUCIFERASES AND METHODS FOR USING SAME | JOHNSON, EMILY KATHARINE | 60d overdue |
| 18816641 | MODIFIED BIOLUMINESCENT ENZYMES | LOUNTOS, GEORGE THEMISTOCLIS | — |
| 18244763 | ENZYMES OF LUCIFERIN BIOSYNTHESIS AND USE THEREOF | ROBINSON, HOPE A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1662 | 1 |
| 1652 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18816641 | MODIFIED BIOLUMINESCENT ENZYMES | LOUNTOS, GEORGE THEMISTOCLIS | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 27, 2024 |
| 18415180 | NOVEL LUCIFERASES AND METHODS FOR USING SAME | JOHNSON, EMILY KATHARINE | 1662 | §112 | Non-Final OA | 60d overdue | Pending | Jan 17, 2024 |
| 18244763 | ENZYMES OF LUCIFERIN BIOSYNTHESIS AND USE THEREOF | ROBINSON, HOPE A | 1652 | §101§102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 11, 2023 |
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