Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Sandhill One LLC currently maintains 1 pending office action in the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. This case is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, focusing the company's current legal efforts. This level of focus suggests that the company is prioritizing a specific biotechnological advancement in its active docket. The pending office action represents the current focus of the company's intellectual property development.
The busiest examiner for the company is CLARKE, TRENT R, who is assigned 1 busiest examiner pending office action. The trajectory of the company's current prosecution is tied to the individual standards of this examiner. Practitioners should evaluate the examiner's previous rulings in the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals field to prepare effective responses. The success of the 1 pending office action will determine the company's immediate progress in securing patent rights. Navigating the requirements of this specific examiner is the most critical task for the company's current prosecution strategy.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CLARKE, TRENT R | 1 | 42.0% | +24.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18009057 | GENETICALLY MODIFIED ORGANISMS FOR THE PRODUCTION OF STEROID DERIVATIVES | CLARKE, TRENT R | 70d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1651 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18009057 | GENETICALLY MODIFIED ORGANISMS FOR THE PRODUCTION OF STEROID DERIVATIVES | CLARKE, TRENT R | 1651 | §103 | Final Rejection | 70d | Pending | Dec 08, 2022 |
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