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
Rome Therapeutics Inc. has 2 pending office actions within the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. These matters are being reviewed by 2 distinct examiners, showing a ratio of 2 pending actions to 2 examiners. Furthermore, the portfolio is active across 2 distinct art units, which indicates that each pending action is likely situated in a different technical niche.
BRANDSEN, BENJAMIN MICHAEL is identified as the busiest examiner, with 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Given that there are 2 pending office actions in total, this examiner is responsible for a portion of the current pending workload. The other pending office action is managed by the second of the 2 distinct examiners.
The distribution across 2 distinct art units means that practitioners must navigate the procedural nuances of different sections of the office. With 2 distinct examiners involved, the company faces independent sets of examiner preferences. Monitoring the 1 busiest examiner pending office action assigned to BRANDSEN, BENJAMIN MICHAEL is essential for managing the current prosecution pipeline effectively.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BRANDSEN, BENJAMIN MICHAEL | 1 | 60.2% | +18.6% |
| KRISHNAN, GANAPATHY | 1 | 52.8% | +1.1% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18561644 | METHODS OF TREATING MEDICAL CONDITIONS AND INHIBITING LINE1 REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE USING A SUBSTITUTED 4-FLUORO-2,5-DIHYDROFURANYL PHOSPHONIC ACID OR RELATED COMPOUND | KRISHNAN, GANAPATHY | 28d |
| 18572316 | 4-ETHYNYL-3-HYDROXY-TETRAHYDROFURANYL-ADENINE PHOSPHORAMIDATES AND RELATED COMPOUNDS AND THEIR USE IN TREATING MEDICAL CONDITIONS | BRANDSEN, BENJAMIN MICHAEL | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18572316 | 4-ETHYNYL-3-HYDROXY-TETRAHYDROFURANYL-ADENINE PHOSPHORAMIDATES AND RELATED COMPOUNDS AND THEIR USE IN TREATING MEDICAL CONDITIONS | BRANDSEN, BENJAMIN MICHAEL | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1699 | 1 |
| 1693 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18572316 | 4-ETHYNYL-3-HYDROXY-TETRAHYDROFURANYL-ADENINE PHOSPHORAMIDATES AND RELATED COMPOUNDS AND THEIR USE IN TREATING MEDICAL CONDITIONS | BRANDSEN, BENJAMIN MICHAEL | 1699 | §103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 20, 2023 |
| 18561644 | METHODS OF TREATING MEDICAL CONDITIONS AND INHIBITING LINE1 REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE USING A SUBSTITUTED 4-FLUORO-2,5-DIHYDROFURANYL PHOSPHONIC ACID OR RELATED COMPOUND | KRISHNAN, GANAPATHY | 1693 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 28d | Pending | Nov 16, 2023 |
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