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
Provexis Natural Products Limited maintains 1 pending office action within the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and is located within 1 distinct art unit. The concentration of the portfolio in a single technology area and art unit suggests a highly specialized prosecution focus. This structure allows the company to direct its resources toward a specific set of patent office requirements and examination standards.
MELLER, MICHAEL V is the busiest examiner for the company, currently handling 1 pending office action. This single action constitutes the entire active workload for the company's patent portfolio. As a result, the company's immediate prosecution outcomes are determined by the review of this 1 examiner. The alignment of the busiest examiner with the total pending actions highlights a consolidated approach to the company's current intellectual property filings.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MELLER, MICHAEL V | 1 | 47.1% | +28.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18532215 | COMPOSITIONS | MELLER, MICHAEL V | 4d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1655 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18532215 | COMPOSITIONS | MELLER, MICHAEL V | 1655 | §103 | Final Rejection | 4d overdue | Pending | Dec 07, 2023 |
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