Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
5 pending office actions • 4 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 8 patents granted in the last 365 days
Royal Melbourne Institute Of Technology has 5 pending office actions in the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. These actions are distributed among 5 distinct examiners, creating a ratio of 1 action per examiner. The portfolio is spread across 4 distinct art units, which indicates a diverse range of technical focuses within the biotech sector. This distribution across 4 art units suggests that the institute's research is being categorized into several specialized biological and pharmaceutical groups at the USPTO.
The busiest examiner for the institute is MERCIER, MELISSA S, who is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending action. This shows that the workload is evenly distributed, with no single examiner handling more than 1 action. Practitioners must manage 5 different examiner relationships across 4 art units. The variety in art units requires a versatile prosecution strategy to address the varying expectations of the 5 examiners. Successfully advancing these 5 actions will depend on understanding the specific standards of each of the 4 art units involved.
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 | 3 (60%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (40%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MERCIER, MELISSA S | 1 | 72.1% | +5.8% |
| NGUYEN, CAM N | 1 | 84.8% | +12.3% |
| SPENCE, JENNIFER SUZANNE | 1 | 66.9% | +46.0% |
| MARCSISIN, ELLEN JEAN | 1 | 34.5% | +49.3% |
| TOICH, SARA KATHERINE | 1 | 50.0% | +47.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18261934 | PROCESS FOR PREPARING METAL OXIDE NANOSHEETS | NGUYEN, CAM N | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18858619 | COMPOUNDS, COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR DELIVERY OF BIOLOGICALLY ACTIVE AGENTS | MERCIER, MELISSA S | — |
| 17757700 | SENSOR FOR DETECTING A BIOANALYTE AND A METHOD FOR THE DETECTION THEREOF | MARCSISIN, ELLEN JEAN | — |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17766446 | ACOUSTIC NEBULISER FOR DELIVERY OF ACTIVE AGENTS | TOICH, SARA KATHERINE | 88d overdue |
| 18261934 | PROCESS FOR PREPARING METAL OXIDE NANOSHEETS | NGUYEN, CAM N | — |
| 18041238 | STIMULATING CELLULAR PRODUCTION OF EXOSOMES | SPENCE, JENNIFER SUZANNE | — |
| 17757700 | SENSOR FOR DETECTING A BIOANALYTE AND A METHOD FOR THE DETECTION THEREOF | MARCSISIN, ELLEN JEAN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1736 | 1 |
| 1633 | 1 |
| 1677 | 1 |
| 3785 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18858619 | COMPOUNDS, COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR DELIVERY OF BIOLOGICALLY ACTIVE AGENTS | MERCIER, MELISSA S | — | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 21, 2024 |
| 18261934 | PROCESS FOR PREPARING METAL OXIDE NANOSHEETS | NGUYEN, CAM N | 1736 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 18, 2023 |
| 18041238 | STIMULATING CELLULAR PRODUCTION OF EXOSOMES | SPENCE, JENNIFER SUZANNE | 1633 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 10, 2023 |
| 17757700 | SENSOR FOR DETECTING A BIOANALYTE AND A METHOD FOR THE DETECTION THEREOF | MARCSISIN, ELLEN JEAN | 1677 | §102§103Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 17, 2022 |
| 17766446 | ACOUSTIC NEBULISER FOR DELIVERY OF ACTIVE AGENTS | TOICH, SARA KATHERINE | 3785 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 88d overdue | Pending | Apr 04, 2022 |
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