Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
5 pending office actions • 3 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Premier Biotech LLC is managing 5 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These cases are spread across 3 distinct art units, which may introduce different procedural nuances depending on the specific subject matter of each application. The portfolio involves 5 distinct examiners, meaning every pending action is currently assigned to a unique individual, preventing any single examiner from having a dominant influence over the company's current results.
HEALY, NOAH MICHAEL is the busiest examiner for this company, with 1 pending office action. With 5 distinct examiners and 5 pending office actions, the company faces a diverse set of perspectives during prosecution. Practitioners should monitor the 3 distinct art units for any diverging trends in how these Chemistry & Materials applications are being evaluated. This distribution requires a flexible approach to address the specific feedback provided by 5 distinct examiners across multiple administrative divisions.
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 | 2 (40%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (20%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (20%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (20%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HEALY, NOAH MICHAEL | 1 | 57.8% | +34.8% |
| PATEL, NIDHI NIRAJ | 1 | 53.8% | +46.6% |
| KRCHA, MATTHEW D | 1 | 64.7% | +35.3% |
| GERHARD, ALISON CLAIRE | 1 | 39.5% | +24.4% |
| SIEFKE, SAMUEL P | 1 | 63.1% | +17.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18990081 | ASSEMBLY AND METHOD FOR SPLIT SALIVA COLLECTION AND TESTING | HEALY, NOAH MICHAEL | — |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16875583 | SCREENING DEVICE FOR ANALYSIS OF BODILY FLUIDS | SIEFKE, SAMUEL P | 100d overdue |
| 18990081 | ASSEMBLY AND METHOD FOR SPLIT SALIVA COLLECTION AND TESTING | HEALY, NOAH MICHAEL | — |
| 18775773 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR SPLIT SALIVA COLLECTION AND TESTING | PATEL, NIDHI NIRAJ | — |
| 18703518 | DEVICE FOR DETECTING ANALYTE IN FLUID SAMPLE | KRCHA, MATTHEW D | — |
| 17970001 | DEVICE FOR TESTING AN ANALYTE IN A LIQUID SAMPLE | GERHARD, ALISON CLAIRE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3791 | 1 |
| 1797 | 1 |
| 1758 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18990081 | ASSEMBLY AND METHOD FOR SPLIT SALIVA COLLECTION AND TESTING | HEALY, NOAH MICHAEL | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 20, 2024 |
| 18775773 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR SPLIT SALIVA COLLECTION AND TESTING | PATEL, NIDHI NIRAJ | 3791 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 17, 2024 |
| 18703518 | DEVICE FOR DETECTING ANALYTE IN FLUID SAMPLE | KRCHA, MATTHEW D | — | §102§103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 22, 2024 |
| 17970001 | DEVICE FOR TESTING AN ANALYTE IN A LIQUID SAMPLE | GERHARD, ALISON CLAIRE | 1797 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 20, 2022 |
| 16875583 | SCREENING DEVICE FOR ANALYSIS OF BODILY FLUIDS | SIEFKE, SAMUEL P | 1758 | DP | Final Rejection | 100d overdue | Pending | May 15, 2020 |
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