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
Mann & Schroeder GmbH maintains a company patent portfolio in the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. The portfolio shows 1 pending office action currently in progress. This matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and is being processed within 1 distinct art unit, reflecting a highly targeted prosecution effort. This singular focus indicates that the company is currently engaged in a specific examination process for its biotechnology assets rather than managing a broad or diverse set of applications within the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals sector.
The busiest examiner identified for this portfolio is WISTNER, SARAH CLINKSCALES, who is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Given that the total count of pending office actions is 1, this 1 examiner handles all current activity for the company. This alignment of 1 examiner to 1 art unit defines the present scope of the company's patent prosecution. Success in this pending action is critical, as it represents the only active point of negotiation between the company and the USPTO at this time.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WISTNER, SARAH CLINKSCALES | 1 | 25.0% | +81.0% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18105359 | POWDER/GRANULES FOR MAKING A SHOWER GEL OR SHAMPOO | WISTNER, SARAH CLINKSCALES | 9d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18105359 | POWDER/GRANULES FOR MAKING A SHOWER GEL OR SHAMPOO | WISTNER, SARAH CLINKSCALES | 9d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1616 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18105359 | POWDER/GRANULES FOR MAKING A SHOWER GEL OR SHAMPOO | WISTNER, SARAH CLINKSCALES | 1616 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 9d overdue | Pending | Feb 03, 2023 |
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