Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Neurophet Inc. currently has 2 pending office actions within its portfolio. These actions are situated in the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. The presence of 2 pending office actions indicates that the company is actively pursuing patent protection for its technical developments in this field.
The prosecution of these matters involves 2 distinct examiners but is concentrated within 1 distinct art unit. This indicates that while different individuals are reviewing the cases, they are both part of the same administrative group. The use of 1 distinct art unit for 2 pending office actions suggests a degree of technical concentration between the filings in the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals area.
GEBRESLASSIE, WINTA is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, handling 1 busiest examiner pending action. This 1 busiest examiner pending action is assigned to GEBRESLASSIE, WINTA, while the other of the 2 pending office actions is handled by a different examiner. Since the 2 pending office actions are split between 2 distinct examiners, the company must manage separate sets of examiner feedback.
Practitioners can benefit from the fact that both examiners are in 1 distinct art unit, as the internal policies and standards should be consistent. However, the presence of 2 distinct examiners means that the specific prosecution strategy for each case must be tailored to the individual. Success for Neurophet Inc. will depend on navigating the expectations of GEBRESLASSIE, WINTA and another assigned examiner.
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%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GEBRESLASSIE, WINTA | 1 | 77.1% | +23.6% |
| ANDERSON-FEARS, KEENAN NEIL | 1 | 12.0% | +41.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17676758 | BRAIN STIMULATION SIMULATION SYSTEM AND METHOD ACCORDING TO PRESET GUIDE SYSTEM USING ANONYMIZED DATA-BASED EXTERNAL SERVER | ANDERSON-FEARS, KEENAN NEIL | 15d |
| 18909637 | METHOD OF PROVIDING DIAGNOSIS ASSISTANCE INFORMATION AND METHOD OF PERFORMING THE SAME | GEBRESLASSIE, WINTA | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17676758 | BRAIN STIMULATION SIMULATION SYSTEM AND METHOD ACCORDING TO PRESET GUIDE SYSTEM USING ANONYMIZED DATA-BASED EXTERNAL SERVER | ANDERSON-FEARS, KEENAN NEIL | 15d |
| 18909637 | METHOD OF PROVIDING DIAGNOSIS ASSISTANCE INFORMATION AND METHOD OF PERFORMING THE SAME | GEBRESLASSIE, WINTA | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1687 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18909637 | METHOD OF PROVIDING DIAGNOSIS ASSISTANCE INFORMATION AND METHOD OF PERFORMING THE SAME | GEBRESLASSIE, WINTA | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 08, 2024 |
| 17676758 | BRAIN STIMULATION SIMULATION SYSTEM AND METHOD ACCORDING TO PRESET GUIDE SYSTEM USING ANONYMIZED DATA-BASED EXTERNAL SERVER | ANDERSON-FEARS, KEENAN NEIL | 1687 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | 15d | Pending | Feb 21, 2022 |
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