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
Maplight Therapeutics Inc. has 1 pending office action in the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. This action is assigned to a distinct examiner and a distinct art unit. ROCHELLE, CIERRA MARIE is the busiest examiner for the company, managing the 1 pending office action. This data shows a singular focus for the company's current prosecution activity at the USPTO.
The portfolio's current status is defined by 1 pending office action, which is being handled by a distinct examiner. ROCHELLE, CIERRA MARIE's role as the busiest examiner is a direct result of this single pending matter. With only a distinct art unit involved, the prosecution is highly concentrated. Practitioners will find a simple administrative structure here, as there are no multiple examiners or art units to coordinate across. The focus on a single art unit within the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals area further simplifies the prosecution landscape.
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 |
|---|---|
| Double-patenting + other | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ROCHELLE, CIERRA MARIE | 1 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18712916 | METHODS OF TREATING NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS | ROCHELLE, CIERRA MARIE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1627 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18712916 | METHODS OF TREATING NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS | ROCHELLE, CIERRA MARIE | 1627 | §103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 23, 2024 |
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