Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
4 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Oribiotech Ltd. is currently processing 4 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are assigned to 3 distinct examiners, which indicates some level of concentration in the review process. This arrangement means that at least one examiner is handling more than one of the pending matters, allowing for some consistency in prosecution across the portfolio.
The workload is distributed across 3 distinct art units. This suggests that the company's chemical technologies are specialized enough to fall into three different regulatory categories at the patent office. WRIGHT, PATRICIA KATHRYN is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, currently responsible for 2 busiest examiner pending office actions. This examiner handles 2 of the 4 pending office actions currently active for the company.
With WRIGHT, PATRICIA KATHRYN managing 2 busiest examiner pending office actions, this examiner is a critical figure in the company's overall strategy. The applicant can leverage the interactions with this single examiner to potentially streamline the 2 busiest examiner pending actions she oversees. However, the presence of 3 distinct art units and 3 distinct examiners in total means that the company must still maintain a flexible approach to satisfy the requirements of the other two examiners.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 1 (25%) |
| §102 only | 1 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WRIGHT, PATRICIA KATHRYN | 2 | 65.3% | +42.6% |
| BRIDGES, DONAVAN LEE | 1 | — | — |
| RITCHIE, HADEN MATTHEW | 1 | 73.4% | +33.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18694211 | BIOREACTOR WITH SENSOR ELEMENT | BRIDGES, DONAVAN LEE | — |
| 18681272 | OUTLET VALVE FOR A CONTAINER | WRIGHT, PATRICIA KATHRYN | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18713525 | A BIOREACTOR COMPRISING A BAFFLE | WRIGHT, PATRICIA KATHRYN | 30d overdue |
| 18681272 | OUTLET VALVE FOR A CONTAINER | WRIGHT, PATRICIA KATHRYN | — |
| 18573939 | ASEPTIC CONNECTOR | RITCHIE, HADEN MATTHEW | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1798 | 2 |
| 1758 | 1 |
| 3783 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18713525 | A BIOREACTOR COMPRISING A BAFFLE | WRIGHT, PATRICIA KATHRYN | 1798 | §103 | Final Rejection | 30d overdue | Pending | May 24, 2024 |
| 18694211 | BIOREACTOR WITH SENSOR ELEMENT | BRIDGES, DONAVAN LEE | 1758 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 21, 2024 |
| 18681272 | OUTLET VALVE FOR A CONTAINER | WRIGHT, PATRICIA KATHRYN | 1798 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 05, 2024 |
| 18573939 | ASEPTIC CONNECTOR | RITCHIE, HADEN MATTHEW | 3783 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 22, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialOribiotech Ltd. has 4 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 3 examiners.
Patricia Kathryn Wright has the most, with 2 of Oribiotech Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
