Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Otto-Von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg maintains a patent portfolio in the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. The current prosecution activity is limited to 1 pending office action, which is assigned to examiner HINES, JANA A. As the busiest examiner for this portfolio, HINES, JANA A is responsible for the 1 busiest examiner pending action currently recorded.
The university's patent applications are currently processed through 1 distinct art unit and 1 distinct examiner. This indicates a very specific focus for the 1 pending office action within the USPTO's examination structure. Because the entirety of the active workload is concentrated under HINES, JANA A, the prosecution timeline and strategy are currently tied to this point of contact. The outcome of this office action will be a significant indicator of the university's current success in this biotechnology sector.
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 |
|---|---|
| §102 only | 1 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HINES, JANA A | 1 | 53.0% | +39.7% |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18266327 | DECOLONIZATION OF ENTEROBACTERIA, SUCH AS KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE, FROM THE GUT USING STRAINS OF KLEBSIELLA OXYTOCA | HINES, JANA A | 30d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1645 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18266327 | DECOLONIZATION OF ENTEROBACTERIA, SUCH AS KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE, FROM THE GUT USING STRAINS OF KLEBSIELLA OXYTOCA | HINES, JANA A | 1645 | §102 | Non-Final OA | 30d overdue | Pending | Jun 09, 2023 |
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