Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Nfi Corp. currently faces 1 pending office action in the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. This prosecution is being conducted through 1 distinct art unit and involves 1 distinct examiner. This structure shows a direct and singular line of communication with the patent office.
HELM, CARALYNNE E is the busiest examiner for the company, overseeing 1 pending office action. As there is 1 distinct examiner assigned, this individual is responsible for the current office action responses required by the applicant in this technology area.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HELM, CARALYNNE E | 1 | 28.9% | +49.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17962543 | ENHANCED DERMAL PATCH FOR TREATING MENSTRUAL PAIN | HELM, CARALYNNE E | 26d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17962543 | ENHANCED DERMAL PATCH FOR TREATING MENSTRUAL PAIN | HELM, CARALYNNE E | 26d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1615 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17962543 | ENHANCED DERMAL PATCH FOR TREATING MENSTRUAL PAIN | HELM, CARALYNNE E | 1615 | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 26d | Pending | Oct 09, 2022 |
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