Technology area: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Medincell SA currently has 2 pending office actions within the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. These actions are assigned to 2 distinct examiners and are located within 2 distinct art units. This distribution indicates that the company's current prosecution efforts are entirely decentralized, with no overlap between the examiners or the administrative units handling the cases. Such a spread requires a versatile approach to prosecution, as each examiner will bring an individual interpretation to the biotechnology and pharmaceutical claims being presented. The involvement of 2 distinct examiners ensures that each matter is evaluated independently.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is LEESER, ERICH A, who is currently managing 1 pending office action. Given that there are 2 pending office actions in total, this examiner's decisions will impact a portion of the company's active matters. The presence of 2 distinct art units for only 2 actions suggests that the underlying technologies are categorized into different specialized areas of biotechnology. Practitioners should be prepared for the specific procedural requirements of these 2 distinct art units, as they may have different internal guidelines for examining pharmaceutical subject matter. Successfully navigating these 2 pending office actions requires tailoring arguments to the specific standards of the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals sector.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LEESER, ERICH A | 1 | 81.8% | +13.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18409158 | OLANZAPINE COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS OF USE | LEESER, ERICH A | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18409158 | OLANZAPINE COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS OF USE | LEESER, ERICH A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1622 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18409158 | OLANZAPINE COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS OF USE | LEESER, ERICH A | 1622 | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 10, 2024 |
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