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
Md Healthcare Inc. is currently managing 1 pending office action in the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. This singular focus reflects a specific point of prosecution for the company's current filings. By operating within 1 art unit, the company maintains a narrow procedural footprint at the patent office. This structure allows the legal team to focus their resources on the requirements of a specific technical group within the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals field.
The busiest examiner, DUFFY, PATRICIA ANN, is responsible for 1 pending office action. This 1 action is the only pending office action in the entire portfolio. The prosecution is therefore dependent on the review of this 1 examiner within the identified art unit. For the practitioner, understanding the specific preferences of DUFFY, PATRICIA ANN is the primary factor in the current prosecution strategy. The outcome of the 1 pending office action will be determined by the review and feedback provided by this identified examiner.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DUFFY, PATRICIA ANN | 1 | 52.9% | +33.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18566037 | LACTOBACILLUS RHAMNOSUS-DERIVED VESICLE AND USES THEREOF | DUFFY, PATRICIA ANN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1645 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18566037 | LACTOBACILLUS RHAMNOSUS-DERIVED VESICLE AND USES THEREOF | DUFFY, PATRICIA ANN | 1645 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 30, 2023 |
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