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
Saro Research LLC currently manages 1 pending office action within the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. This action is concentrated under a distinct examiner and a distinct art unit, which creates a focused prosecution footprint. For a company in this sector, the current examiner concentration means that the outcome of the portfolio rests on the interpretation of a specific individual. The busiest examiner for this portfolio is BOWERS, NATHAN ANDREW, who is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending action.
Because this represents the entirety of the pending workload, the prosecution strategy is tethered to the specific preferences and historical tendencies of this official. Practitioners should focus on the specific requirements of the distinct art unit involved to navigate the remaining office action effectively. The concentration of the pending office action in the distinct art unit suggests that the underlying technology is specialized within a niche of Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals.
With only the distinct examiner involved, there are no alternative prosecution paths or varied examiner perspectives to compare within the current data set. This centralized workload requires a precise response to the pending office action to avoid potential delays in this specific art unit.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BOWERS, NATHAN ANDREW | 1 | 59.4% | +31.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18110333 | METHODS OF RECOVERING RARE EARTH METALS | BOWERS, NATHAN ANDREW | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1656 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18110333 | METHODS OF RECOVERING RARE EARTH METALS | BOWERS, NATHAN ANDREW | 1656 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 15, 2023 |
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