Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Chemistry & Materials
4 pending office actions • 3 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Micropore Technologies Limited maintains a company patent portfolio within the Chemistry & Materials sector. Currently, the portfolio includes 3 pending office actions. This workload is handled by 3 distinct examiners, including HUANG, RYAN, who is the busiest examiner with 1 busiest examiner pending action. All prosecution activity is localized within 3 distinct art units.
For a practitioner, this distribution means the company's current USPTO engagement is spread across several technical channels. The 3 pending office actions represent the entirety of the active pipeline. Navigating the Chemistry & Materials field with 3 distinct examiners allows for a distributed approach to prosecution. However, it also means the portfolio's immediate growth depends on the resolution of the 1 busiest examiner pending action. Practitioners should tailor their strategy specifically to the tendencies of HUANG, RYAN to optimize outcomes within the 3 distinct art units.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 (25%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KAMM, JUDITH MARIE | 1 | 43.5% | +56.6% |
| HUANG, RYAN | 1 | 52.9% | +31.1% |
| SHOMER, ISAAC | 1 | 63.2% | +30.4% |
| BASS, DIRK R | 1 | 62.4% | +22.8% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17927497 | MEMBRANE EMULSIFICATION APPARATUS WITH REFINER AND METHOD OF PREPARING A REFINED EMULSION | BASS, DIRK R | 12d |
| 18016143 | METHOD OF PREPARING LIPID VESICLES | SHOMER, ISAAC | 20d |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18018078 | METHODS OF PREPARING SOLID PARTICULATE MATERIALS | HUANG, RYAN | 107d overdue |
| 17927497 | MEMBRANE EMULSIFICATION APPARATUS WITH REFINER AND METHOD OF PREPARING A REFINED EMULSION | BASS, DIRK R | 12d |
| 18016143 | METHOD OF PREPARING LIPID VESICLES | SHOMER, ISAAC | 20d |
| 18998271 | CONTINUOUS PROCESS | KAMM, JUDITH MARIE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1777 | 1 |
| 1612 | 1 |
| 1779 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18998271 | CONTINUOUS PROCESS | KAMM, JUDITH MARIE | — | §102§103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 24, 2025 |
| 18018078 | METHODS OF PREPARING SOLID PARTICULATE MATERIALS | HUANG, RYAN | 1777 | §103 | Final Rejection | 107d overdue | Pending | Jan 26, 2023 |
| 18016143 | METHOD OF PREPARING LIPID VESICLES | SHOMER, ISAAC | 1612 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 20d | Pending | Jan 13, 2023 |
| 17927497 | MEMBRANE EMULSIFICATION APPARATUS WITH REFINER AND METHOD OF PREPARING A REFINED EMULSION | BASS, DIRK R | 1779 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 12d | Pending | Nov 23, 2022 |
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