Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 10 patents granted in the last 365 days
Pivot Bio Inc. has 3 pending office actions in the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. Each of these actions is assigned to a different person, resulting in 3 distinct examiners. Furthermore, the prosecution is spread across distinct art units, indicating no overlap in the technical groups.
JANA A HINES is the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action. The distribution across multiple art units suggests that the company's patent strategy involves diverse biological or pharmaceutical technologies.
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 |
|---|---|
| Double-patenting only | 1 (33%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (33%) |
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% |
| HOLT, ANDRIAE M | 1 | 49.3% | +22.9% |
| WILLIAMS, KEITH RICHARD | 1 | 50.0% | +0.0% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18020040 | IMPROVED PLANT NITROGEN CONSISTENCY THROUGH THE SUPPLY OF WHOLE PLANT NITROGEN FROM A NITROGEN FIXING MICROBE | WILLIAMS, KEITH RICHARD | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18632573 | METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR IMPROVING ENGINEERED MICROBES THAT FIX NITROGEN | HINES, JANA A | — |
| 18269248 | SEED TREATMENT SYSTEMS, METHODS, and AGRICULTURAL COMPOSITIONS | HOLT, ANDRIAE M | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1645 | 1 |
| 1614 | 1 |
| 1663 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18632573 | METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR IMPROVING ENGINEERED MICROBES THAT FIX NITROGEN | HINES, JANA A | 1645 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 11, 2024 |
| 18269248 | SEED TREATMENT SYSTEMS, METHODS, and AGRICULTURAL COMPOSITIONS | HOLT, ANDRIAE M | 1614 | §102§103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 22, 2023 |
| 18020040 | IMPROVED PLANT NITROGEN CONSISTENCY THROUGH THE SUPPLY OF WHOLE PLANT NITROGEN FROM A NITROGEN FIXING MICROBE | WILLIAMS, KEITH RICHARD | 1663 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 06, 2023 |
IP Author helps IP teams respond to office actions faster with AI-generated responses, examiner analytics, and prosecution intelligence.
Start Free Trial