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
Northern Hemp Specialists Ltd. currently manages 1 pending office action within the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. This active matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner working within 1 distinct art unit. The concentrated nature of this portfolio suggests a specific focus for the company's current patent prosecution efforts, as all activity is localized to one administrative group.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is BURKE, MATTHEW RYAN, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. This individual workload matches the total number of pending office actions for the entire company. For practitioners, this indicates that the outcome of the company's current prosecution depends entirely on the interactions with this specific examiner. Because there is only 1 distinct art unit involved, the technical subject matter falls under a single specialized group at the patent office.
The busiest examiner, BURKE, MATTHEW RYAN, handles the 1 pending action, meaning there is no internal variety in examiner behavior to compare. This creates a streamlined environment where the prosecution strategy must be tailored to the specific preferences of a single official. Practitioners should focus on the specific examination history of this examiner to navigate the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals requirements effectively.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BURKE, MATTHEW RYAN | 1 | 0.0% | +0.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18287083 | SOIL AMENDMENT FOR SOLUBILIZING SILICATE IN SOIL | BURKE, MATTHEW RYAN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1619 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18287083 | SOIL AMENDMENT FOR SOLUBILIZING SILICATE IN SOIL | BURKE, MATTHEW RYAN | 1619 | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 16, 2023 |
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