Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Chemistry & Materials
8 pending office actions • 6 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 8 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days
Nuclera Ltd. holds a company patent portfolio in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. The portfolio currently shows 6 pending office actions. These actions are distributed across 6 distinct examiners and 5 distinct art units, indicating a broad and varied prosecution landscape for the company's chemistry-related innovations.
The busiest examiner for the company is KAUR, GURPREET, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. Because there are 6 pending office actions and 6 distinct examiners, each examiner is currently handling exactly 1 action. The distribution across 5 distinct art units indicates a wide prosecution front, with applications being reviewed by multiple specialized groups. This variety suggests that the company's chemistry and materials filings cover a range of technical sub-fields, requiring the management of 6 different examiner relationships across 5 different administrative units. The high ratio of 6 distinct examiners for 6 pending actions highlights a lack of examiner concentration in the company's current chemistry prosecution.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 (12%) |
| §103 only | 1 (12%) |
| §102 only | 1 (12%) |
| §112 only | 1 (12%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ALABI, OYELEYE A | 2 | 84.0% | +25.2% |
| KAUR, GURPREET | 1 | 65.2% | +35.9% |
| EOM, ROBERT J | 1 | 57.5% | +34.7% |
| OLSON, ANDREA STEFFEL | 1 | 62.3% | -11.9% |
| HERON, VELVET ELIZABETH | 1 | 47.4% | +52.6% |
| HUTSON, RICHARD G | 1 | 65.1% | +53.1% |
| LEE, JAE W | 1 | 65.8% | +38.6% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18010165 | LIQUID SAMPLE RECOVERY IN HIGH DENSITY DIGITAL MICROFLUIDIC ARRAYS | ALABI, OYELEYE A | 30d overdue |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18025354 | COMPOSITE TOP PLATE FOR MAGNETIC AND TEMPERATURE CONTROL IN A DIGITAL MICROFLUIDIC DEVICE | HERON, VELVET ELIZABETH | 40d |
| 18588757 | PROTEIN AGGREGATION ASSAYS | ALABI, OYELEYE A | — |
| 18684235 | METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR IMPROVED BIOMOLECULE ASSAYS ON DIGITAL MICROFLUIDIC DEVICES | KAUR, GURPREET | — |
| 18281226 | DIGITAL MICROFLUIDIC DEVICE WITH CAPACITIVE SENSING | EOM, ROBERT J | — |
| 18277474 | MODIFIED ADENINES | OLSON, ANDREA STEFFEL | — |
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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17794320 | METHODS OF NUCLEIC ACID SYNTHESIS | LEE, JAE W | 78d overdue |
| 18017704 | Modified Terminal Deoxynucleotidyl Transferase (TdT) Enzymes | HUTSON, RICHARD G | 45d overdue |
| 18010165 | LIQUID SAMPLE RECOVERY IN HIGH DENSITY DIGITAL MICROFLUIDIC ARRAYS | ALABI, OYELEYE A | 30d overdue |
| 18025354 | COMPOSITE TOP PLATE FOR MAGNETIC AND TEMPERATURE CONTROL IN A DIGITAL MICROFLUIDIC DEVICE | HERON, VELVET ELIZABETH | 40d |
| 18588757 | PROTEIN AGGREGATION ASSAYS | ALABI, OYELEYE A | — |
| 18684235 | METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR IMPROVED BIOMOLECULE ASSAYS ON DIGITAL MICROFLUIDIC DEVICES | KAUR, GURPREET | — |
| 18281226 | DIGITAL MICROFLUIDIC DEVICE WITH CAPACITIVE SENSING | EOM, ROBERT J | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1796 | 1 |
| 1637 | 1 |
| 1798 | 1 |
| 1652 | 1 |
| 1797 | 1 |
| 1656 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18588757 | PROTEIN AGGREGATION ASSAYS | ALABI, OYELEYE A | — | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 27, 2024 |
| 18684235 | METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR IMPROVED BIOMOLECULE ASSAYS ON DIGITAL MICROFLUIDIC DEVICES | KAUR, GURPREET | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 16, 2024 |
| 18281226 | DIGITAL MICROFLUIDIC DEVICE WITH CAPACITIVE SENSING | EOM, ROBERT J | 1796 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 08, 2023 |
| 18277474 | MODIFIED ADENINES | OLSON, ANDREA STEFFEL | 1637 | §103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 16, 2023 |
| 18025354 | COMPOSITE TOP PLATE FOR MAGNETIC AND TEMPERATURE CONTROL IN A DIGITAL MICROFLUIDIC DEVICE | HERON, VELVET ELIZABETH | 1798 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 40d | Pending | Mar 08, 2023 |
| 18017704 | Modified Terminal Deoxynucleotidyl Transferase (TdT) Enzymes | HUTSON, RICHARD G | 1652 | §112 | Non-Final OA | 45d overdue | Pending | Jan 24, 2023 |
| 18010165 | LIQUID SAMPLE RECOVERY IN HIGH DENSITY DIGITAL MICROFLUIDIC ARRAYS | ALABI, OYELEYE A | 1797 | §103 | Final Rejection | 30d overdue | Pending | Dec 13, 2022 |
| 17794320 | METHODS OF NUCLEIC ACID SYNTHESIS | LEE, JAE W | 1656 | §102 | Final Rejection | 78d overdue | Pending | Jul 21, 2022 |
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