Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 04, 2026

Sadanand Prabhakar Sardeshmukh

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

Analysis

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.

Written from this page's own data; every figure is computed from USPTO records and verified before publication.

Portfolio Summary

2
Total Pending OAs
0
Non-Final OAs
0
Final Rejections
2
Advisory / Quayle

Case Difficulty Mix

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.

1
Hard (50%)
0
Medium (0%)
1
Easy (50%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§112 only1 (50%)
Multi-statute (no §101)1 (50%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

2
Life Sciences
100% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
0
Mechanical / Eng
0% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

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.

20 h
Manual time on pending OAs
4 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
7 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.2 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
BOECKELMAN, JACOB A 1 35.2% +45.6%
HOFFMAN, SUSAN COE 1 54.2% +25.6%

Hard Cases (1)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18011164 A HERBO-MINERAL METALLIC PHARMACEUTICAL KIT HOFFMAN, SUSAN COE —

Interview Candidates (2)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18281545 A HERBO-MINERAL METALLIC PHARMACEUTICAL KIT BOECKELMAN, JACOB A —
18011164 A HERBO-MINERAL METALLIC PHARMACEUTICAL KIT HOFFMAN, SUSAN COE —

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1655 2

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
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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