Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Chemistry & Materials
5 pending office actions • 4 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Quidel Corporation manages a portfolio in the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area with 5 pending office actions. These actions are distributed across 5 distinct examiners. This indicates a broad distribution of the workload among the assigned staff, which can lead to varied prosecution experiences across the portfolio.
The prosecution efforts span 4 distinct art units, showing technical diversity within the biotechnology sector. NGUYEN, HENRY H is the busiest examiner, responsible for 1 pending office action. This level of activity reflects a balanced prosecution pipeline with 5 total pending actions spread across multiple examiners and 4 art units. For a practitioner, this means that the prosecution strategy must be adaptable to the different standards and tendencies of 4 separate art units. The fact that 5 examiners are involved for 5 actions shows that the company is engaging with a wide range of expertise at the patent office.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 | 3 (60%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (40%) |
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% |
| DEVI, SARVAMANGALA | 1 | 65.3% | +55.3% |
| WHITE, DENNIS MICHAEL | 1 | 58.0% | +48.6% |
| TRAN, CHAU NGUYEN BICH | 1 | 31.6% | +45.2% |
| YAMASAKI, ROBERT J | 1 | 67.6% | +43.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18307749 | EXTRACTION REAGENT FOR USE IN AN ASSAY FOR DETECTION OF GROUP A STREPTOCOCCUS | DEVI, SARVAMANGALA | 9d overdue |
| 18571173 | METHOD TO IDENTIFY INDIVIDUALS WITH T CELL IMMUNITY TO SPECIFIC INFECTIOUS AGENTS | NGUYEN, HENRY H | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18307749 | EXTRACTION REAGENT FOR USE IN AN ASSAY FOR DETECTION OF GROUP A STREPTOCOCCUS | DEVI, SARVAMANGALA | 9d overdue |
| 16816009 | COMPOSITIONS, KITS, AND METHODS FOR DETECTING AUTOANTIBODIES | YAMASAKI, ROBERT J | 27d |
| 18571173 | METHOD TO IDENTIFY INDIVIDUALS WITH T CELL IMMUNITY TO SPECIFIC INFECTIOUS AGENTS | NGUYEN, HENRY H | — |
| 17144991 | SUBSTRATE WITH CHANNELS FOR CONTROLLED FLUID FLOW IN BIOLOGICAL ASSAY SAMPLING | WHITE, DENNIS MICHAEL | — |
| 16817010 | RESULT DETERMINATION IN AN IMMUNOASSAY BY MEASURING KINETIC SLOPES | TRAN, CHAU NGUYEN BICH | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1645 | 1 |
| 1758 | 1 |
| 1677 | 1 |
| 1651 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18571173 | METHOD TO IDENTIFY INDIVIDUALS WITH T CELL IMMUNITY TO SPECIFIC INFECTIOUS AGENTS | NGUYEN, HENRY H | — | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 15, 2023 |
| 18307749 | EXTRACTION REAGENT FOR USE IN AN ASSAY FOR DETECTION OF GROUP A STREPTOCOCCUS | DEVI, SARVAMANGALA | 1645 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 9d overdue | Pending | Apr 26, 2023 |
| 17144991 | SUBSTRATE WITH CHANNELS FOR CONTROLLED FLUID FLOW IN BIOLOGICAL ASSAY SAMPLING | WHITE, DENNIS MICHAEL | 1758 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 08, 2021 |
| 16817010 | RESULT DETERMINATION IN AN IMMUNOASSAY BY MEASURING KINETIC SLOPES | TRAN, CHAU NGUYEN BICH | 1677 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 12, 2020 |
| 16816009 | COMPOSITIONS, KITS, AND METHODS FOR DETECTING AUTOANTIBODIES | YAMASAKI, ROBERT J | 1651 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 27d | Pending | Mar 11, 2020 |
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