Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Chemistry & Materials
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Nuclein LLC is engaged in the Chemistry & Materials technology area, where it currently manages 3 pending office actions. These 3 pending office actions are distributed across 3 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units. This distribution indicates a diverse prosecution landscape, with each pending matter being reviewed by a different individual.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is CROW, ROBERT THOMAS, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. Since there are 3 pending office actions in total, the workload is split among the 3 distinct examiners. This level of dispersion across 3 distinct art units suggests that the company's filings cover a broad range of technical applications within the Chemistry & Materials field.
For practitioners, managing 3 pending office actions across 3 distinct examiners requires a multifaceted strategy. Each examiner may have different procedural preferences and interpretations of the prior art. The presence of CROW, ROBERT THOMAS as one of the examiners highlights the need for tailored responses that address the specific standards of each distinct art unit involved in the company's current prosecution.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CROW, ROBERT THOMAS | 1 | 41.7% | +32.7% |
| NGUYEN, HENRY H | 1 | 63.7% | +37.2% |
| KRCHA, MATTHEW D | 1 | 64.7% | +35.3% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18038181 | DIRECT LYSIS APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR MOLECULAR DIAGNOSTICS | NGUYEN, HENRY H | 82d |
| 18558061 | ANALYTE DETECTION CARTRIDGE AND METHODS OF USE THEREOF | CROW, ROBERT THOMAS | — |
| 18037282 | APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR MOLECULAR DIAGNOSTICS | KRCHA, MATTHEW D | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18038181 | DIRECT LYSIS APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR MOLECULAR DIAGNOSTICS | NGUYEN, HENRY H | 82d |
| 18558061 | ANALYTE DETECTION CARTRIDGE AND METHODS OF USE THEREOF | CROW, ROBERT THOMAS | — |
| 18037282 | APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR MOLECULAR DIAGNOSTICS | KRCHA, MATTHEW D | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1683 | 1 |
| 1758 | 1 |
| 1796 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18558061 | ANALYTE DETECTION CARTRIDGE AND METHODS OF USE THEREOF | CROW, ROBERT THOMAS | 1683 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 30, 2023 |
| 18038181 | DIRECT LYSIS APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR MOLECULAR DIAGNOSTICS | NGUYEN, HENRY H | 1758 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 82d | Pending | May 22, 2023 |
| 18037282 | APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR MOLECULAR DIAGNOSTICS | KRCHA, MATTHEW D | 1796 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 16, 2023 |
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