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
Reprobiogen Inc. currently holds 1 pending office action in the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. This matter is being handled by a distinct examiner within a single art unit. The focus on biotechnology suggests that the company's current intellectual property efforts are directed toward complex biological or pharmaceutical developments.
BUCHANAN, BAILEY CHEYENNE is the busiest examiner for the portfolio. This examiner is managing 1 busiest examiner pending office action, covering the entirety of the company's current pending office actions. A centralized prosecution structure like this one provides the benefit of consistent feedback from the USPTO, as all concerns originate from a single source.
For the practitioner, the primary challenge is to address the specific technical requirements of the assigned examiner and art unit. The alignment of the technology area with the art unit indicates that the application is being reviewed by specialists in the biotech sector. Effective prosecution will require a detailed understanding of the examiner's previous actions and the specific legal standards applied within this art unit.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BUCHANAN, BAILEY CHEYENNE | 1 | 42.9% | +57.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18255113 | METHOD FOR PREIMPLANTATION GENETIC SCREENING OF EMBRYOS | BUCHANAN, BAILEY CHEYENNE | 34d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1682 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18255113 | METHOD FOR PREIMPLANTATION GENETIC SCREENING OF EMBRYOS | BUCHANAN, BAILEY CHEYENNE | 1682 | §103 | Final Rejection | 34d | Pending | May 31, 2023 |
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