Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Chemistry & Materials
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Mx3 Diagnostics Inc. currently has 2 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are being handled by 2 distinct examiners across 2 distinct art units. This distribution shows that the company's current patent prosecution is divided across different administrative and examination personnel, requiring a broader management strategy than a single-action portfolio.
The busiest examiner for the company is BALL, JOHN C, who is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending action. This is 1 of the 2 pending office actions currently active for the firm. The fact that 2 distinct examiners are involved means that the company must navigate 2 different sets of examiner preferences and timelines within the Chemistry & Materials sector.
The presence of 2 distinct art units indicates that the technology being patented may span different sub-specialties within the broader Chemistry & Materials field. With 2 pending office actions in total, the company is maintaining a small but diversified prosecution pipeline. Practitioners must coordinate responses across the 2 distinct examiners to ensure consistency in the company's intellectual property positioning.
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 | 1 (50%) |
| §103 only | 1 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BALL, JOHN C | 1 | 78.8% | +16.2% |
| HAYES, JONATHAN EDWARD | 1 | 36.4% | +20.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16918150 | BIOLOGICAL FLUID ANALYSIS AND PERSONALIZED HYDRATION ASSESSMENT SYSTEMS | HAYES, JONATHAN EDWARD | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18734844 | ION SELECTIVE SENSOR | BALL, JOHN C | 3d overdue |
| 16918150 | BIOLOGICAL FLUID ANALYSIS AND PERSONALIZED HYDRATION ASSESSMENT SYSTEMS | HAYES, JONATHAN EDWARD | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1795 | 1 |
| 1685 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18734844 | ION SELECTIVE SENSOR | BALL, JOHN C | 1795 | §103 | Final Rejection | 3d overdue | Pending | Jun 05, 2024 |
| 16918150 | BIOLOGICAL FLUID ANALYSIS AND PERSONALIZED HYDRATION ASSESSMENT SYSTEMS | HAYES, JONATHAN EDWARD | 1685 | §101§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 01, 2020 |
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