Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Chemistry & Materials
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Preomics GmbH currently has 3 pending office actions active within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These matters are distributed across 3 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units, reflecting a diverse spread of oversight for the company's active docket. This distribution suggests that the company is pursuing multiple distinct chemical or material innovations that fall under different specialized classifications. The presence of 3 pending office actions indicates a multi-faceted approach to building the company's intellectual property portfolio.
The busiest examiner identified in the data is GIERE, REBECCA M, who is managing 1 busiest examiner pending office action. With each of the 3 pending office actions assigned to a different examiner, the company faces a variety of examination styles across its current docket. For the patent practitioner, this decentralized structure requires a flexible strategy, as the arguments successful with one examiner may not resonate with the others. The lack of concentration in a single art unit or under a single examiner means that the portfolio's overall success is not tied to any one individual's discretion but rather to a broader range of office interactions across the Chemistry & Materials sector.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 + other | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (67%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GIERE, REBECCA M | 1 | 73.7% | +32.3% |
| XU, XIAOYUN | 1 | 60.0% | +31.8% |
| BOWERS, NATHAN ANDREW | 1 | 59.4% | +31.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18009649 | DISPERSION USING A MOVING MAGNET | GIERE, REBECCA M | 44d overdue |
| 17254841 | MEANS AND METHODS FOR LYSING BIOLOGICAL CELLS | BOWERS, NATHAN ANDREW | 21d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17924113 | SAMPLE PREPARATION FOR MASS SPECTROMETRY | XU, XIAOYUN | 100d overdue |
| 18009649 | DISPERSION USING A MOVING MAGNET | GIERE, REBECCA M | 44d overdue |
| 17254841 | MEANS AND METHODS FOR LYSING BIOLOGICAL CELLS | BOWERS, NATHAN ANDREW | 21d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1677 | 1 |
| 1797 | 1 |
| 1799 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18009649 | DISPERSION USING A MOVING MAGNET | GIERE, REBECCA M | 1677 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 44d overdue | Pending | Dec 09, 2022 |
| 17924113 | SAMPLE PREPARATION FOR MASS SPECTROMETRY | XU, XIAOYUN | 1797 | §103§112DP | Non-Final OA | 100d overdue | Pending | Nov 08, 2022 |
| 17254841 | MEANS AND METHODS FOR LYSING BIOLOGICAL CELLS | BOWERS, NATHAN ANDREW | 1799 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 21d | Pending | Dec 21, 2020 |
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