Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Livestock Improvement Corporation Limited maintains a focused presence in the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals sector. The portfolio currently includes 1 pending office action located in 1 distinct art unit. This concentration indicates a specific area of technical interest for the company's current filings.
EBBINGHAUS, BRIANA NOEL is the 1 distinct examiner for this portfolio and holds the 1 busiest examiner pending action. Since all prosecution activity is directed through a single examiner, the entity experiences a centralized review process. This structure allows for a very direct line of communication with the patent office.
For practitioners, the primary challenge is the lack of examiner variety, which means there are no alternative paths for the current docket. Every effort must be made to align the response with the specific expectations of the assigned examiner. The outcome of this single pending action will define the entity's current patenting trajectory.
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 |
|---|---|
| §112 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| EBBINGHAUS, BRIANA NOEL | 1 | 61.6% | +63.5% |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16987086 | GENETIC MARKERS AND USES THEREFOR | EBBINGHAUS, BRIANA NOEL | 22d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1632 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16987086 | GENETIC MARKERS AND USES THEREFOR | EBBINGHAUS, BRIANA NOEL | 1632 | §112 | Final Rejection | 22d | Pending | Aug 06, 2020 |
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