Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Chemistry & Materials
11 pending office actions • 5 art units • 11 examiners • 0 of 11 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 10 patents granted in the last 365 days
Mgi Tech Co. Ltd. maintains a portfolio with 11 pending office actions in the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. These actions are handled by 11 distinct examiners, showing a complete lack of examiner overlap across the company's active files. The breadth of the portfolio is further evidenced by its presence in 5 distinct art units, indicating a diverse technical scope within the biotech and pharmaceutical sectors.
The busiest examiner, GOCO, JOHN PATRICK, is responsible for 1 pending office action. With 11 distinct examiners each handling exactly one case, the prosecution strategy cannot rely on building a relationship with a single high-volume examiner. Instead, the company must manage unique examiner interactions across a diverse array of 5 distinct art units, requiring a broad and adaptable approach to USPTO negotiations. This high level of fragmentation across the art units suggests that the company's patentable subject matter is highly diverse, necessitating specialized expertise for each individual filing. Practitioners should be prepared for a variety of examination styles and procedural nuances across this expansive portfolio of 11 pending office actions.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 2 (18%) |
| §102 only | 1 (9%) |
| §112 only | 2 (18%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 6 (55%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GOCO, JOHN PATRICK | 1 | 33.3% | +66.7% |
| POHNERT, STEVEN C | 1 | 12.4% | +18.5% |
| KAUP, SAHANA S | 1 | 44.4% | +29.5% |
| WRIGHT, PATRICIA KATHRYN | 1 | 65.3% | +42.6% |
| SIEFKE, SAMUEL P | 1 | 63.1% | +17.8% |
| KASS, BENJAMIN JOSEPH | 1 | 32.6% | +58.9% |
| SHI, TINGCHEN | 1 | 69.7% | +24.5% |
| BROWN, MINDY G | 1 | 55.9% | +44.4% |
| SCHLOOP, ALLISON ELIZABETH | 1 | 63.0% | +56.5% |
| SKIBINSKY, ANNA | 1 | 39.0% | +29.1% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17919341 | FLUID LAYING DEVICE, FLUID LAYING METHOD, FLUID LAYING SYSTEM, COMPOSITE DEVICE, AND FLUID PASSAGE DEVICE | SHI, TINGCHEN | 8d overdue |
| 18983916 | SYNTHETIC IMAGE GENERATION AND MACHINE LEARNING ANALYSIS FOR BIOLOGICAL SUBSTANCES | GOCO, JOHN PATRICK | — |
| 18689062 | METHOD FOR ANALYZING SEQUENCE OF TARGET POLYNUCLEOTIDE | POHNERT, STEVEN C | — |
| 18582080 | TEMPLATE MUTAGENESIS FOR IMPROVED ASSEMBLY OF SEQUENCE READS | KAUP, SAHANA S | — |
| 18294719 | SEQUENCING SYSTEMS AND METHODS UTILIZING THREE- DIMENSIONAL SUBSTRATES | WRIGHT, PATRICIA KATHRYN | — |
| 18373019 | LIQUID TRANSFER DEVICE AND METHOD, BIOCHEMICAL SUBSTANCE REACTION DEVICE, AND BIOCHEMICAL SUBSTANCE ANALYSIS DEVICE AND METHOD | KASS, BENJAMIN JOSEPH | — |
| 17809892 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR CREATING GENE MUTATION DICTIONARY, AND METHOD AND DEVICE FOR COMPRESSING GENOMIC DATA USING THE DICTIONARY | SKIBINSKY, ANNA | — |
| 17617854 | METHOD FOR PREPARING HIGH-THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING LIBRARY BASED ON NESTED MUTIPLEX PCR AND KIT FOR THE SAME | RAYMONDA, MATTHEW HAROLD | — |
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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17919341 | FLUID LAYING DEVICE, FLUID LAYING METHOD, FLUID LAYING SYSTEM, COMPOSITE DEVICE, AND FLUID PASSAGE DEVICE | SHI, TINGCHEN | 8d overdue |
| 18983916 | SYNTHETIC IMAGE GENERATION AND MACHINE LEARNING ANALYSIS FOR BIOLOGICAL SUBSTANCES | GOCO, JOHN PATRICK | — |
| 18689062 | METHOD FOR ANALYZING SEQUENCE OF TARGET POLYNUCLEOTIDE | POHNERT, STEVEN C | — |
| 18582080 | TEMPLATE MUTAGENESIS FOR IMPROVED ASSEMBLY OF SEQUENCE READS | KAUP, SAHANA S | — |
| 18294719 | SEQUENCING SYSTEMS AND METHODS UTILIZING THREE- DIMENSIONAL SUBSTRATES | WRIGHT, PATRICIA KATHRYN | — |
| 18570781 | IMPROVED FLOW CELLS, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS | SIEFKE, SAMUEL P | — |
| 18373019 | LIQUID TRANSFER DEVICE AND METHOD, BIOCHEMICAL SUBSTANCE REACTION DEVICE, AND BIOCHEMICAL SUBSTANCE ANALYSIS DEVICE AND METHOD | KASS, BENJAMIN JOSEPH | — |
| 17912008 | RESTORING PHASE IN MASSIVELY PARALLEL SEQUENCING | BROWN, MINDY G | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1683 | 2 |
| 1798 | 1 |
| 1796 | 1 |
| 1635 | 1 |
| 1684 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18983916 | SYNTHETIC IMAGE GENERATION AND MACHINE LEARNING ANALYSIS FOR BIOLOGICAL SUBSTANCES | GOCO, JOHN PATRICK | — | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 17, 2024 |
| 18689062 | METHOD FOR ANALYZING SEQUENCE OF TARGET POLYNUCLEOTIDE | POHNERT, STEVEN C | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 04, 2024 |
| 18582080 | TEMPLATE MUTAGENESIS FOR IMPROVED ASSEMBLY OF SEQUENCE READS | KAUP, SAHANA S | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 20, 2024 |
| 18294719 | SEQUENCING SYSTEMS AND METHODS UTILIZING THREE- DIMENSIONAL SUBSTRATES | WRIGHT, PATRICIA KATHRYN | — | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 02, 2024 |
| 18570781 | IMPROVED FLOW CELLS, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS | SIEFKE, SAMUEL P | — | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 15, 2023 |
| 18373019 | LIQUID TRANSFER DEVICE AND METHOD, BIOCHEMICAL SUBSTANCE REACTION DEVICE, AND BIOCHEMICAL SUBSTANCE ANALYSIS DEVICE AND METHOD | KASS, BENJAMIN JOSEPH | 1798 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 26, 2023 |
| 17919341 | FLUID LAYING DEVICE, FLUID LAYING METHOD, FLUID LAYING SYSTEM, COMPOSITE DEVICE, AND FLUID PASSAGE DEVICE | SHI, TINGCHEN | 1796 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 8d overdue | Pending | Oct 17, 2022 |
| 17912008 | RESTORING PHASE IN MASSIVELY PARALLEL SEQUENCING | BROWN, MINDY G | 1683 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 15, 2022 |
| 17863808 | METHOD FOR SYNCHRONOUSLY SEQUENCING SENSE STRAND AND ANTISENSE STRAND OF DNA | SCHLOOP, ALLISON ELIZABETH | 1683 | §112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 13, 2022 |
| 17809892 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR CREATING GENE MUTATION DICTIONARY, AND METHOD AND DEVICE FOR COMPRESSING GENOMIC DATA USING THE DICTIONARY | SKIBINSKY, ANNA | 1635 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 29, 2022 |
| 17617854 | METHOD FOR PREPARING HIGH-THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING LIBRARY BASED ON NESTED MUTIPLEX PCR AND KIT FOR THE SAME | RAYMONDA, MATTHEW HAROLD | 1684 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 09, 2021 |
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