Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Chemistry & Materials • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
4 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Nucleix Ltd. has 4 pending office actions within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These actions are distributed across 3 distinct art units, showing a relatively tight technical focus for the current workload. Despite the small number of actions, the spread across 3 art units indicates that the company's technology is being evaluated under several different classification systems.
The portfolio is handled by 3 distinct examiners. KIM, YOUNG J is the busiest examiner, responsible for 2 of the pending actions. This means one examiner is managing a large portion of the company's current pending office actions, while the other 2 actions are split between 2 other examiners. This concentration with KIM, YOUNG J makes that examiner's individual preferences particularly important for the company's immediate prosecution success.
With 4 pending actions and 3 examiners, the portfolio shows a high degree of examiner concentration for its size. The fact that KIM, YOUNG J handles 2 of the 4 actions suggests that a significant portion of the company's current patent office interactions are focused on a single individual. Practitioners should prioritize understanding the specific tendencies of this examiner given their share of the pending workload.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (25%) |
| §103 only | 1 (25%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (25%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KIM, YOUNG J | 2 | 64.8% | +18.1% |
| PATEL, JAY M | 1 | 64.6% | +39.2% |
| BRAZIN, JACQUELINE | 1 | 66.0% | +52.7% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18261995 | NON-INVASIVE CANCER DETECTION BASED ON DNA METHYLATION CHANGES | KIM, YOUNG J | 13d |
| 18711585 | WHOLE GENOME CPG ANALYSIS | KIM, YOUNG J | — |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18261995 | NON-INVASIVE CANCER DETECTION BASED ON DNA METHYLATION CHANGES | KIM, YOUNG J | 13d |
| 17780227 | SYSTEMS AND DEVICES FOR SAMPLE PREPARATION AND ANALYTE DETECTION | BRAZIN, JACQUELINE | 55d |
| 19274214 | DEEP LEARNING-BASED METHODS, DEVICES, AND SYSTEMS FOR PRENATAL TESTING | PATEL, JAY M | — |
| 18711585 | WHOLE GENOME CPG ANALYSIS | KIM, YOUNG J | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3681 | 1 |
| 1681 | 1 |
| 1798 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19274214 | DEEP LEARNING-BASED METHODS, DEVICES, AND SYSTEMS FOR PRENATAL TESTING | PATEL, JAY M | 3681 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 18, 2025 |
| 18711585 | WHOLE GENOME CPG ANALYSIS | KIM, YOUNG J | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 18, 2024 |
| 18261995 | NON-INVASIVE CANCER DETECTION BASED ON DNA METHYLATION CHANGES | KIM, YOUNG J | 1681 | §101§103§112 | Final Rejection | 13d | Pending | Jul 18, 2023 |
| 17780227 | SYSTEMS AND DEVICES FOR SAMPLE PREPARATION AND ANALYTE DETECTION | BRAZIN, JACQUELINE | 1798 | §103 | Final Rejection | 55d | Pending | May 26, 2022 |
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