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 • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Pertinent Eco-Solutions Inc. has 1 pending office action in the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. This action is being reviewed by 1 distinct examiner and is located in 1 distinct art unit. The company's current patent activity is focused on this single pending matter. This one-to-one relationship between the action, examiner, and art unit suggests a focused administrative process.
The busiest examiner for the company is LIU, TRACY, who is handling 1 pending office action. This examiner is responsible for the entirety of the company's current pending workload. The data shows a relationship between the 1 action, 1 examiner, and 1 art unit. For the practitioner, the success of the current portfolio depends entirely on the interaction with this 1 official within the specified art unit environment.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LIU, TRACY | 1 | 54.5% | +27.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18621931 | ESSENTIAL OIL IMPREGNATED DEVICE AND METHODS OF USE THEREOF | LIU, TRACY | 62d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1614 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18621931 | ESSENTIAL OIL IMPREGNATED DEVICE AND METHODS OF USE THEREOF | LIU, TRACY | 1614 | §103 | Final Rejection | 62d | Pending | Mar 29, 2024 |
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