Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals
8 pending office actions • 5 art units • 8 examiners • 0 of 8 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Lonza Greenwood LLC has 8 pending office actions within the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. These actions are handled by 8 distinct examiners, resulting in a unique examiner for every pending case. The workload is distributed across 5 distinct art units, suggesting that the company's biological innovations span several different classification categories.
PRAGANI, RAJAN is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently managing 1 pending office action. This represents one of the 8 pending office actions currently active. The fact that multiple distinct examiners are spread across 5 distinct art units means that most examiners are working in separate administrative groups.
This requires a prosecution strategy that accounts for the varied standards of 5 different art units. With 8 distinct examiners involved, the applicant must prepare for a variety of individual preferences and technical interpretations. The distribution across the distinct art units indicates a broad technical scope within the biotechnology sector, requiring specialized knowledge for each response. This structure requires the legal team to stay versatile and responsive to a variety of technical and procedural requirements.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 | 3 (38%) |
| §112 only | 1 (12%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 3 (38%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (12%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ATKINSON, JOSHUA ALEXANDER | 1 | 52.4% | +26.7% |
| PRAGANI, RAJAN | 1 | 53.3% | +70.0% |
| LEE, SIN J | 1 | 68.8% | +25.1% |
| MCCLAIN, TYNESHA L. | 1 | 15.8% | +24.2% |
| WILLIAMS, EMMALEE RAE | 1 | 0.0% | +0.0% |
| HERNANDEZ, JACKSON J | 1 | 51.4% | +45.0% |
| AUDET, MAURY A | 1 | 50.1% | +23.9% |
| MARTINEZ, TARA L | 1 | 62.6% | +65.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18144542 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURE AND PASTEURIZATION OF PRODUCTS CONTAINING UNDENATURED COLLAGEN | MCCLAIN, TYNESHA L. | 16d overdue |
| 18009359 | Undenatured Type II Collagen as a Supplement for Improved Endurance, Lipid Metabolism, and Oxidative Stress | WILLIAMS, EMMALEE RAE | — |
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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18572983 | Method to Control Administration of Active Substance to the Digestive Tract | LEE, SIN J | 43d overdue |
| 18144542 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURE AND PASTEURIZATION OF PRODUCTS CONTAINING UNDENATURED COLLAGEN | MCCLAIN, TYNESHA L. | 16d overdue |
| 17921369 | Nutritional Composition Comprising Carnitine and Method for Treating or Preventing an Infection in a Mammal | HERNANDEZ, JACKSON J | 15d |
| 16106348 | Composition and Nutritional Supplement Made Therefrom | MARTINEZ, TARA L | 70d |
| 18833977 | Fast Acting Joint Health Composition and Use Thereof | ATKINSON, JOSHUA ALEXANDER | — |
| 18834006 | Extended Release Boswellic Acid and Manufacturing Thereof | PRAGANI, RAJAN | — |
| 17260360 | Collagen and Cell Matter Supplement and Method for Administering Same | AUDET, MAURY A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1654 | 2 |
| 1613 | 1 |
| 1793 | 1 |
| 1600 | 1 |
| 1627 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18833977 | Fast Acting Joint Health Composition and Use Thereof | ATKINSON, JOSHUA ALEXANDER | — | §102§103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 29, 2024 |
| 18834006 | Extended Release Boswellic Acid and Manufacturing Thereof | PRAGANI, RAJAN | — | §103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 29, 2024 |
| 18572983 | Method to Control Administration of Active Substance to the Digestive Tract | LEE, SIN J | 1613 | §103 | Final Rejection | 43d overdue | Pending | Dec 21, 2023 |
| 18144542 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURE AND PASTEURIZATION OF PRODUCTS CONTAINING UNDENATURED COLLAGEN | MCCLAIN, TYNESHA L. | 1793 | §103 | Final Rejection | 16d overdue | Pending | May 08, 2023 |
| 18009359 | Undenatured Type II Collagen as a Supplement for Improved Endurance, Lipid Metabolism, and Oxidative Stress | WILLIAMS, EMMALEE RAE | 1600 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 09, 2022 |
| 17921369 | Nutritional Composition Comprising Carnitine and Method for Treating or Preventing an Infection in a Mammal | HERNANDEZ, JACKSON J | 1627 | §103DP | Final Rejection | 15d | Pending | Oct 26, 2022 |
| 17260360 | Collagen and Cell Matter Supplement and Method for Administering Same | AUDET, MAURY A | 1654 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 14, 2021 |
| 16106348 | Composition and Nutritional Supplement Made Therefrom | MARTINEZ, TARA L | 1654 | §112 | Non-Final OA | 70d | Pending | Aug 21, 2018 |
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