Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Chemistry & Materials
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Nse Products Inc. shows a diversified prosecution profile within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. The portfolio currently includes 2 pending office actions, which are split between 2 distinct examiners. Furthermore, these actions are located in 2 distinct art units, indicating that the company's active patent applications are subject to oversight from different divisions within the USPTO.
FAN, LYNN Y is identified as the busiest examiner, managing 1 busiest examiner pending action. The remaining action is handled by a different examiner in the second of the 2 distinct art units. This distribution means that the 2 pending office actions are evaluated under the specific cultures and technical priorities of two separate administrative units, increasing the complexity of the company's legal strategy.
Navigating 2 distinct art units in the Chemistry & Materials sector requires the practitioner to adapt to varying examination standards. Since there are 2 distinct examiners involved, the company cannot rely on a single point of contact for its active applications. This structure suggests that the 2 pending office actions may involve different sub-technologies, necessitating a multi-faceted approach to address the unique requirements of each art unit and examiner.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 1 (50%) |
| §112 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FAN, LYNN Y | 1 | 47.3% | +49.5% |
| GOLDBERG, JEANINE ANNE | 1 | 45.8% | +40.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 14820274 | IDENTIFYING MARKERS OF CALORIC RESTRICTION AND CALORIC RESTRICTION MIMETICS | GOLDBERG, JEANINE ANNE | 3d overdue |
| 17216443 | ORAL FORMULATIONS FOR PROMOTING CELLULAR PURIFICATION | FAN, LYNN Y | 33d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1759 | 1 |
| 1682 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17216443 | ORAL FORMULATIONS FOR PROMOTING CELLULAR PURIFICATION | FAN, LYNN Y | 1759 | §112 | Non-Final OA | 33d | Pending | Mar 29, 2021 |
| 14820274 | IDENTIFYING MARKERS OF CALORIC RESTRICTION AND CALORIC RESTRICTION MIMETICS | GOLDBERG, JEANINE ANNE | 1682 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 3d overdue | Pending | Aug 06, 2015 |
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