Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals
8 pending office actions • 5 art units • 8 examiners • 0 of 8 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 11 patents granted in the last 365 days
Myriad Genetics Inc. has 7 pending office actions within the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. These actions are spread across 5 distinct art units, suggesting a varied technical focus within the biotech sector. The company is working with 7 distinct examiners, meaning each of the 7 pending office actions is currently assigned to a different individual. This distribution of 7 distinct examiners for 7 pending office actions highlights a completely decentralized prosecution workload. Practitioners should be prepared to manage 7 separate examiner relationships.
The busiest examiner, WHALEY, PABLO S, handles 1 pending office action, which is consistent with the distribution across all 7 distinct examiners. This lack of concentration requires the company to manage 7 separate examiner relationships across 5 distinct art units. Such a distribution indicates that prosecution outcomes are dependent on the individual interpretations of a diverse group of examiners rather than a single primary contact. With 5 distinct art units involved, the company must navigate the specific examination guidelines of several different biotechnology divisions. This profile reflects a highly diversified prosecution effort across multiple examiners and art units.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 only | 1 (12%) |
| §101 + other | 4 (50%) |
| §103 only | 1 (12%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (12%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (12%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WHALEY, PABLO S | 1 | 25.1% | +21.4% |
| HORLICK, KENNETH R | 1 | 78.9% | +15.3% |
| HANEY, AMANDA MARIE | 1 | 36.4% | +44.9% |
| MYERS, CARLA J | 1 | 49.3% | +46.1% |
| PHAM, KHAI QUYNH TIEN | 1 | 0.0% | +0.0% |
| BUCHANAN, BAILEY CHEYENNE | 1 | 42.9% | +57.1% |
| ANDERSON-FEARS, KEENAN NEIL | 1 | 12.0% | +41.3% |
| PULLIAM, JOSEPH CONSTANTINE | 1 | 38.1% | +31.2% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19088442 | METHODS AND MATERIALS FOR ASSESSING LOSS OF HETEROZYGOSITY | WHALEY, PABLO S | 35d overdue |
| 17353279 | METHODS AND MATERIALS FOR ASSESSING HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION DEFICIENCY | HANEY, AMANDA MARIE | 4d overdue |
| 17678357 | GENE SIGNATURES FOR CANCER PROGNOSIS | HORLICK, KENNETH R | — |
| 18095386 | NON-INVASIVE PRENATAL SAMPLE PREPARATION AND RELATED METHODS AND USES | MYERS, CARLA J | — |
| 17926566 | NUCLEIC ACID SAMPLE ENRICHMENT AND SCREENING METHODS | PHAM, KHAI QUYNH TIEN | — |
| 17630385 | METHOD FOR DETECTING GENETIC VARIATION IN HIGHLY HOMOLOGOUS SEQUENCES BY INDEPENDENT ALIGNMENT AND PAIRING OF SEQUENCE READS | ANDERSON-FEARS, KEENAN NEIL | — |
| 17111272 | COPY NUMBER VARIANT CALLER | PULLIAM, JOSEPH CONSTANTINE | — |
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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19088442 | METHODS AND MATERIALS FOR ASSESSING LOSS OF HETEROZYGOSITY | WHALEY, PABLO S | 35d overdue |
| 17353279 | METHODS AND MATERIALS FOR ASSESSING HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION DEFICIENCY | HANEY, AMANDA MARIE | 4d overdue |
| 17678357 | GENE SIGNATURES FOR CANCER PROGNOSIS | HORLICK, KENNETH R | — |
| 18095386 | NON-INVASIVE PRENATAL SAMPLE PREPARATION AND RELATED METHODS AND USES | MYERS, CARLA J | — |
| 17716381 | ENRICHMENT OF CELL-FREE DNA FROM A BIOLOGICAL SAMPLE | BUCHANAN, BAILEY CHEYENNE | — |
| 17630385 | METHOD FOR DETECTING GENETIC VARIATION IN HIGHLY HOMOLOGOUS SEQUENCES BY INDEPENDENT ALIGNMENT AND PAIRING OF SEQUENCE READS | ANDERSON-FEARS, KEENAN NEIL | — |
| 17111272 | COPY NUMBER VARIANT CALLER | PULLIAM, JOSEPH CONSTANTINE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1682 | 3 |
| 1687 | 2 |
| 3619 | 1 |
| 1681 | 1 |
| 1684 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19088442 | METHODS AND MATERIALS FOR ASSESSING LOSS OF HETEROZYGOSITY | WHALEY, PABLO S | 3619 | §103§112Other | Non-Final OA | 35d overdue | Pending | Mar 24, 2025 |
| 17678357 | GENE SIGNATURES FOR CANCER PROGNOSIS | HORLICK, KENNETH R | 1681 | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 23, 2022 |
| 17353279 | METHODS AND MATERIALS FOR ASSESSING HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION DEFICIENCY | HANEY, AMANDA MARIE | 1682 | §101§103§112DP | Non-Final OA | 4d overdue | Pending | Jun 21, 2021 |
| 18095386 | NON-INVASIVE PRENATAL SAMPLE PREPARATION AND RELATED METHODS AND USES | MYERS, CARLA J | 1682 | §101§102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 10, 2023 |
| 17926566 | NUCLEIC ACID SAMPLE ENRICHMENT AND SCREENING METHODS | PHAM, KHAI QUYNH TIEN | 1684 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 18, 2022 |
| 17716381 | ENRICHMENT OF CELL-FREE DNA FROM A BIOLOGICAL SAMPLE | BUCHANAN, BAILEY CHEYENNE | 1682 | §102§103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 08, 2022 |
| 17630385 | METHOD FOR DETECTING GENETIC VARIATION IN HIGHLY HOMOLOGOUS SEQUENCES BY INDEPENDENT ALIGNMENT AND PAIRING OF SEQUENCE READS | ANDERSON-FEARS, KEENAN NEIL | 1687 | §101§102§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 26, 2022 |
| 17111272 | COPY NUMBER VARIANT CALLER | PULLIAM, JOSEPH CONSTANTINE | 1687 | §101§103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 03, 2020 |
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