Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Chemistry & Materials
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Quantumdx Group Limited is currently navigating 3 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This workload is distributed across 3 distinct examiners, which indicates that the company is receiving feedback from multiple individuals at the USPTO. These actions are situated within 2 distinct art units, suggesting that the portfolio spans different specialized sub-sectors. The involvement of 2 distinct art units often implies that the applications are subject to varying administrative practices and examination standards within the broader Chemistry & Materials field.
The examiner NGUYEN, HENRY H is identified as the busiest examiner for this portfolio, currently managing 1 pending office action. Since there are 3 pending office actions and 3 distinct examiners, the workload is evenly distributed among the assigned personnel. For practitioners, this means there is no single examiner who controls the majority of the portfolio's current fate. Instead, the strategy must account for the 3 distinct examiners and their respective art units. Managing 3 pending office actions across 2 distinct art units requires a coordinated effort to ensure that responses are consistent while addressing the specific requirements of each examiner.
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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NGUYEN, HENRY H | 1 | 63.7% | +37.2% |
| ESPERON, NATHAN GREGORY | 1 | 41.0% | +23.3% |
| GALSTER, SAMUEL LEONARD | 1 | 50.9% | +43.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18575009 | MICROFLUIDIC DEVICE FOR CONCENTRATING TARGET PARTICLES IN A FLUID SAMPLE USING DIELECTROPHORESIS | NGUYEN, HENRY H | — |
| 18249535 | INTEGRATED THERMAL CONDITIONING AND PCR IN A MOLECULAR POC DIAGNOSTIC SYSTEM | ESPERON, NATHAN GREGORY | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17421111 | OLIGONUCLEOTIDE DEPOSITION ONTO POLYPROPYLENE SUBSTRATES | GALSTER, SAMUEL LEONARD | 79d |
| 18575009 | MICROFLUIDIC DEVICE FOR CONCENTRATING TARGET PARTICLES IN A FLUID SAMPLE USING DIELECTROPHORESIS | NGUYEN, HENRY H | — |
| 18249535 | INTEGRATED THERMAL CONDITIONING AND PCR IN A MOLECULAR POC DIAGNOSTIC SYSTEM | ESPERON, NATHAN GREGORY | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1799 | 1 |
| 1693 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18575009 | MICROFLUIDIC DEVICE FOR CONCENTRATING TARGET PARTICLES IN A FLUID SAMPLE USING DIELECTROPHORESIS | NGUYEN, HENRY H | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 28, 2023 |
| 18249535 | INTEGRATED THERMAL CONDITIONING AND PCR IN A MOLECULAR POC DIAGNOSTIC SYSTEM | ESPERON, NATHAN GREGORY | 1799 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 18, 2023 |
| 17421111 | OLIGONUCLEOTIDE DEPOSITION ONTO POLYPROPYLENE SUBSTRATES | GALSTER, SAMUEL LEONARD | 1693 | §103DPOther | Final Rejection | 79d | Pending | Jul 07, 2021 |
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