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
Protem Services Limited manages 1 pending office action in the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. This active case is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, indicating a concentrated prosecution effort for the company's current portfolio. Having 1 pending office action within a single art unit allows for a streamlined communication process with the patent office. This focus suggests that the company's current intellectual property interests are centered on a specific biotechnological or pharmaceutical innovation that falls under the jurisdiction of this one unit. The 1 distinct examiner involved will be the primary point of contact for all current prosecution matters.
DUNN, MCKENZIE A is the busiest examiner, handling 1 pending office action. This individual is responsible for all current pending matters for the company, as the busiest examiner pending count is 1. Practitioners should focus on the specific examiner's feedback to navigate the prosecution process within this Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals art unit. Because the entire pending workload is concentrated with 1 distinct examiner, the success of the current portfolio depends on a successful interaction with this one individual. Analyzing the examiner's previous rulings can provide valuable insights for crafting an effective response to the pending office action.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DUNN, MCKENZIE A | 1 | 53.8% | +56.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17628749 | Apparatus and Method for Testing the Health Condition of Animals and/or Human Beings | DUNN, MCKENZIE A | 15d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17628749 | Apparatus and Method for Testing the Health Condition of Animals and/or Human Beings | DUNN, MCKENZIE A | 15d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1678 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17628749 | Apparatus and Method for Testing the Health Condition of Animals and/or Human Beings | DUNN, MCKENZIE A | 1678 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 15d overdue | Pending | Jan 20, 2022 |
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