Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Repairon GmbH currently has 2 pending office actions within the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. These matters are assigned to 2 distinct examiners and are being processed in 2 distinct art units. This distribution shows that the company's current filings are being evaluated by different technical experts within the patent office.
The busiest examiner for the company is MARTIN, PAUL C, who is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Because the workload is split between 2 distinct examiners, the applicant must engage with different perspectives on their biotechnology inventions. No single examiner dominates the current prosecution landscape for the company.
The presence of 2 distinct art units indicates that the 2 pending office actions may involve different sub-specialties within the pharmaceutical field. Each unit may have its own specific examination trends and requirements. Practitioners should tailor their responses to the assigned examiners and the unique environments of their respective groups.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| JOHNSON, KARA D | 1 | 69.5% | +24.6% |
| MARTIN, PAUL C | 1 | 41.8% | +21.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18262441 | APPLICATION OF PERMITTIVITY MEASUREMENT PROBES IN AN SUSPENSION CULTURE AGGREGATE COMPRISING CELL AGGREGATES | JOHNSON, KARA 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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18262433 | METHOD OF CHANGING CULTURE MEDIUM OF A CULTURE USING SPINFILTERS | MARTIN, PAUL C | 19d |
| 18262441 | APPLICATION OF PERMITTIVITY MEASUREMENT PROBES IN AN SUSPENSION CULTURE AGGREGATE COMPRISING CELL AGGREGATES | JOHNSON, KARA D | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1632 | 1 |
| 1653 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18262441 | APPLICATION OF PERMITTIVITY MEASUREMENT PROBES IN AN SUSPENSION CULTURE AGGREGATE COMPRISING CELL AGGREGATES | JOHNSON, KARA D | 1632 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 21, 2023 |
| 18262433 | METHOD OF CHANGING CULTURE MEDIUM OF A CULTURE USING SPINFILTERS | MARTIN, PAUL C | 1653 | §103 | Final Rejection | 19d | Pending | Jul 21, 2023 |
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