Technology area: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Sadanand Prabhakar Sardeshmukh currently manages 2 pending office actions in the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. These actions are concentrated within 1 distinct art unit, indicating that the subject matter of the applications is closely related. The prosecution involves 2 distinct examiners, which means that even within a single art unit, the applications are receiving independent reviews from different officials. This arrangement provides the applicant with multiple perspectives on the patentability of their life sciences innovations.
BOECKELMAN, JACOB A is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, currently overseeing 1 pending office action. Given that the total count of pending office actions is two, the workload is distributed among the examiners involved. This distribution requires the practitioner to manage separate dialogues, even though the technical field remains consistent across the 1 distinct art unit. The presence of multiple pending office actions suggests an active phase of prosecution for this portfolio, requiring careful coordination of responses.
Because the matters are handled by multiple examiners, there is an opportunity to compare how different individuals within the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals sector react to the applicant's disclosures. This can help in refining the prosecution approach for the single distinct art unit where these applications reside. Practitioners should focus on the specific examination trends favored by BOECKELMAN, JACOB A while also maintaining consistency with the other active matter. This focused but multi-examiner environment is ideal for testing the strength of the company's biotechnology claims.
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 |
|---|---|
| §112 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BOECKELMAN, JACOB A | 1 | 35.2% | +45.6% |
| HOFFMAN, SUSAN COE | 1 | 54.2% | +25.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18011164 | A HERBO-MINERAL METALLIC PHARMACEUTICAL KIT | HOFFMAN, SUSAN COE | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18281545 | A HERBO-MINERAL METALLIC PHARMACEUTICAL KIT | BOECKELMAN, JACOB A | — |
| 18011164 | A HERBO-MINERAL METALLIC PHARMACEUTICAL KIT | HOFFMAN, SUSAN COE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1655 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18281545 | A HERBO-MINERAL METALLIC PHARMACEUTICAL KIT | BOECKELMAN, JACOB A | 1655 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 11, 2023 |
| 18011164 | A HERBO-MINERAL METALLIC PHARMACEUTICAL KIT | HOFFMAN, SUSAN COE | 1655 | §103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 17, 2022 |
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