Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals
7 pending office actions • 7 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
The New York Society for the Relief of the Ruptured and Crippled manages a portfolio in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. There are currently 5 pending office actions, which are spread across 5 distinct examiners. This matching ratio between actions and examiners suggests a high degree of variety in the perspectives reviewing the company's technology. These cases are further distributed across 3 distinct art units, indicating that the portfolio spans multiple specialized examination groups within the medical device field.
OLSON, ANDREA STEFFEL is the busiest examiner for the company, yet is responsible for only 1 pending office action. This confirms that no single examiner dominates the active workload, requiring a broad prosecution strategy that accounts for different individual styles. The presence of 3 distinct art units suggests that the examiners are working within a relatively concentrated set of technical disciplines. For the practitioner, managing multiple pending office actions across several art units requires balancing specific technical arguments with the diverse procedural preferences of various examiners. The 5 pending office actions represent a significant but distributed workload.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (14%) |
| §112 only | 1 (14%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (14%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (57%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SIVJI, NIZAR N | 1 | 85.7% | +19.7% |
| AULAKH, CHARANJIT | 1 | 80.6% | -14.5% |
| MACFARLANE, STACEY NEE | 1 | 53.5% | +39.6% |
| GALSTER, SAMUEL LEONARD | 1 | 50.9% | +43.2% |
| AL-AWADI, DANAH J | 1 | 54.2% | +13.4% |
| LUSI, ELLIS FOLLETT | 1 | 63.5% | +53.4% |
| LI, RUIXIANG | 1 | 59.5% | +18.6% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18731308 | CORRECTING MOTION-RELATED DISTORTIONS IN RADIOGRAPHIC SCANS | SIVJI, NIZAR N | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18042730 | COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR EARLY DETECTION OF OSTEOPOROSIS | LUSI, ELLIS FOLLETT | 79d overdue |
| 18250459 | METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR NUTRITIONAL SUSTENANCE AND WASTE SCAVENGING IN TISSUE INJURIES AND WOUNDS | AL-AWADI, DANAH J | 26d overdue |
| 18695196 | IRHOM2 INHIBITORS AND USES THEREOF | AULAKH, CHARANJIT | — |
| 18284782 | METHODS OF TREATMENT USING PROTEIN BINDERS TO IRHOM2 EPITOPES | MACFARLANE, STACEY NEE | — |
| 18265194 | METHODS FOR TREATING AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES | GALSTER, SAMUEL LEONARD | — |
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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18042730 | COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR EARLY DETECTION OF OSTEOPOROSIS | LUSI, ELLIS FOLLETT | 79d overdue |
| 18250459 | METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR NUTRITIONAL SUSTENANCE AND WASTE SCAVENGING IN TISSUE INJURIES AND WOUNDS | AL-AWADI, DANAH J | 26d overdue |
| 18000010 | METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR TREATING, PREVENTING THE ONSET AND/OR SLOWING PROGRESSION OF OSTEOARTHRITIS | LI, RUIXIANG | 7d |
| 18731308 | CORRECTING MOTION-RELATED DISTORTIONS IN RADIOGRAPHIC SCANS | SIVJI, NIZAR N | — |
| 18284782 | METHODS OF TREATMENT USING PROTEIN BINDERS TO IRHOM2 EPITOPES | MACFARLANE, STACEY NEE | — |
| 18265194 | METHODS FOR TREATING AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES | GALSTER, SAMUEL LEONARD | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2647 | 1 |
| 1621 | 1 |
| 1675 | 1 |
| 1693 | 1 |
| 1615 | 1 |
| 1677 | 1 |
| 1674 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18731308 | CORRECTING MOTION-RELATED DISTORTIONS IN RADIOGRAPHIC SCANS | SIVJI, NIZAR N | 2647 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 02, 2024 |
| 18695196 | IRHOM2 INHIBITORS AND USES THEREOF | AULAKH, CHARANJIT | 1621 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 25, 2024 |
| 18284782 | METHODS OF TREATMENT USING PROTEIN BINDERS TO IRHOM2 EPITOPES | MACFARLANE, STACEY NEE | 1675 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 28, 2023 |
| 18265194 | METHODS FOR TREATING AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES | GALSTER, SAMUEL LEONARD | 1693 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 02, 2023 |
| 18250459 | METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR NUTRITIONAL SUSTENANCE AND WASTE SCAVENGING IN TISSUE INJURIES AND WOUNDS | AL-AWADI, DANAH J | 1615 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 26d overdue | Pending | Apr 25, 2023 |
| 18042730 | COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR EARLY DETECTION OF OSTEOPOROSIS | LUSI, ELLIS FOLLETT | 1677 | §101§112 | Non-Final OA | 79d overdue | Pending | Feb 23, 2023 |
| 18000010 | METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR TREATING, PREVENTING THE ONSET AND/OR SLOWING PROGRESSION OF OSTEOARTHRITIS | LI, RUIXIANG | 1674 | §112 | Final Rejection | 7d | Pending | Nov 28, 2022 |
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