Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals
4 pending office actions • 2 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Ripple Therapeutics Corporation has 3 pending office actions in the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. These actions are assigned to 3 distinct examiners and 1 distinct art unit. HOLLOMAN, NANNETTE is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending action.
The 3 pending office actions are all concentrated within 1 distinct art unit, indicating a specific focus within biotechnology and pharmaceuticals. Despite this concentration, the actions are split among 3 distinct examiners. HOLLOMAN, NANNETTE manages 1 pending action, which is consistent with the distribution where each examiner handles 1 of the 3 active matters. This structure of 3 pending office actions within 1 distinct art unit but across 3 distinct examiners suggests a centralized departmental review but a decentralized individual review. The 1 pending action assigned to HOLLOMAN, NANNETTE represents 1 of the company's 3 current active prosecutions in the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals area.
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 (25%) |
| §112 only | 1 (25%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (25%) |
| No statute on record | 1 (25%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HOLLOMAN, NANNETTE | 1 | 60.7% | +22.8% |
| AGGARWAL, SAHIL CHANDER | 1 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
| HIRT, ERIN E | 1 | 40.3% | +23.0% |
| MCDOWELL, BRIAN E | 1 | 74.1% | +30.8% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18792949 | HETERODIMER COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR THE TREATMENT OF OCULAR DISORDERS | AGGARWAL, SAHIL CHANDER | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17629733 | DIMER COMBINATIONS AND USES THEREOF | MCDOWELL, BRIAN E | 8d overdue |
| 18992519 | COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR IMPROVING VISION | HOLLOMAN, NANNETTE | — |
| 18738907 | DEXAMETHASONE PRODRUG COMPOSITIONS AND USES THEREOF | HIRT, ERIN E | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1616 | 1 |
| 1624 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18992519 | COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR IMPROVING VISION | HOLLOMAN, NANNETTE | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 08, 2025 |
| 18792949 | HETERODIMER COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR THE TREATMENT OF OCULAR DISORDERS | AGGARWAL, SAHIL CHANDER | — | §112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 02, 2024 |
| 18738907 | DEXAMETHASONE PRODRUG COMPOSITIONS AND USES THEREOF | HIRT, ERIN E | 1616 | Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 10, 2024 |
| 17629733 | DIMER COMBINATIONS AND USES THEREOF | MCDOWELL, BRIAN E | 1624 | §112 | Non-Final OA | 8d overdue | Pending | Jan 24, 2022 |
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