Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Rapid Micro Biosystems Inc. maintains 2 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials sector. These are handled by 2 distinct examiners across 2 distinct art units. NATHAN ANDREW BOWERS is the busiest examiner, accounting for 1 busiest examiner pending action. This structure shows a decentralized examination process where each of the 2 pending office actions is being reviewed by a different examiner in a different art unit.
The involvement of 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units suggests that the company's chemistry-related innovations are being categorized into separate technical niches. NATHAN ANDREW BOWERS is the busiest examiner, yet only handles 1 busiest examiner pending action out of the total 2 pending office actions. Because there is no examiner overlap, practitioners must develop independent strategies for each of the 2 pending office actions. The separation into 2 distinct art units further implies that the legal and technical hurdles for one action may be significantly different from the other.
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 | 1 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BOWERS, NATHAN ANDREW | 1 | 59.4% | +31.9% |
| SHI, TINGCHEN | 1 | 69.7% | +24.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18514724 | CUTTING SUBASSEMBLY AND CONDITIONING ASSEMBLY FOR AN ENVIRONMENT | BOWERS, NATHAN ANDREW | 69d |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18004589 | FILTRATION ASSEMBLIES, CASSETTES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS FOR FILTRATION AND CELL GROWTH | SHI, TINGCHEN | 61d |
| 18514724 | CUTTING SUBASSEMBLY AND CONDITIONING ASSEMBLY FOR AN ENVIRONMENT | BOWERS, NATHAN ANDREW | 69d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1799 | 1 |
| 1796 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18514724 | CUTTING SUBASSEMBLY AND CONDITIONING ASSEMBLY FOR AN ENVIRONMENT | BOWERS, NATHAN ANDREW | 1799 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 69d | Pending | Nov 20, 2023 |
| 18004589 | FILTRATION ASSEMBLIES, CASSETTES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS FOR FILTRATION AND CELL GROWTH | SHI, TINGCHEN | 1796 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 61d | Pending | Jan 06, 2023 |
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