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
Rational Vaccines Inc. operates a patent portfolio in the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. The company currently has 1 pending office action. This matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and is located within 1 distinct art unit. These metrics indicate a focused prosecution effort within a single technical domain. The company does not currently have a large volume of active cases or a wide distribution of examiners. This concentration suggests a highly specialized focus for the company's current research and development filings in biotechnology.
The busiest examiner for the portfolio is ALLEN, MICHAEL D, who is handling 1 pending office action. This examiner is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending case, which is the only pending action for the company. This means that ALLEN, MICHAEL D is the sole official currently reviewing the company's patent applications. The involvement of 1 distinct art unit suggests that the technical subject matter is being evaluated by 1 specialized group. This concentration allows for a consistent prosecution narrative but also creates a single point of dependency for the company's patent goals. The focus on 1 distinct examiner simplifies the tracking of examiner-specific behavior and preferences, allowing for more targeted legal responses.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ALLEN, MICHAEL D | 1 | 32.0% | +49.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18284793 | MUTANT HERPESVIRUS AND VACCINE COMPOSITIONS | ALLEN, MICHAEL D | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18284793 | MUTANT HERPESVIRUS AND VACCINE COMPOSITIONS | ALLEN, MICHAEL D | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1671 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18284793 | MUTANT HERPESVIRUS AND VACCINE COMPOSITIONS | ALLEN, MICHAEL D | 1671 | §101§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 28, 2023 |
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