Technology area: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Molecular Devices LLC has 1 pending office action in Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals. Examination is assigned to 1 examiner and 1 art unit, producing a focused record with no reported assignment spread.
TINSLEY, BRENDAN THOMAS is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. Practitioners can direct claim review, response drafting, and prosecution monitoring to that single examiner context.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TINSLEY, BRENDAN THOMAS | 1 | 60.4% | +74.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18848057 | CELL CULTURE APPLICATION METHODS OF USING A SEPARATION WELL MICROPLATE | TINSLEY, BRENDAN THOMAS | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18848057 | CELL CULTURE APPLICATION METHODS OF USING A SEPARATION WELL MICROPLATE | TINSLEY, BRENDAN THOMAS | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1634 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18848057 | CELL CULTURE APPLICATION METHODS OF USING A SEPARATION WELL MICROPLATE | TINSLEY, BRENDAN THOMAS | 1634 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 17, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialMolecular Devices LLC has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Brendan Thomas Tinsley has the most, with 1 of Molecular Devices LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals (USPTO Tech Center 1600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
