Technology area: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Lucase3 L C currently manages 2 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These 2 pending office actions are distributed across 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. This distribution shows that the company's active matters are being handled by different officials and administrative groups within the same technical field.
The busiest examiner for the company is MILLER-CRUZ, EKANDRA S., who is currently responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending office action. While the total number of pending office actions is higher than this individual's workload, the cases are split among the distinct examiners. This indicates that the company is experiencing multiple examination styles within the Chemistry & Materials sector.
For patent practitioners, the presence of the 2 distinct art units requires a strategy that can adapt to different unit-specific standards. Although the busiest examiner only handles 1 busiest examiner pending office action, the overall activity is spread across multiple officials. This requires a distributed approach to ensure that the specific requirements of each examiner and art unit are addressed across the active cases.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MONSHIPOURI, MARYAM | 1 | 79.2% | +37.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18223346 | HIGH VALUE PROTEIN PRODUCTION FROM WASTE ORGANIC STREAMS AT AN EXISTING ETHANOL PLANT | MONSHIPOURI, MARYAM | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1651 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18223346 | HIGH VALUE PROTEIN PRODUCTION FROM WASTE ORGANIC STREAMS AT AN EXISTING ETHANOL PLANT | MONSHIPOURI, MARYAM | 1651 | §112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 18, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialLucase3 L C has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Maryam Monshipouri has the most, with 1 of Lucase3 L C's pending office actions.
Mostly Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals (USPTO Tech Center 1600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.