Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
22 pending office actions • 16 art units • 22 examiners • 0 of 22 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 11 patents granted in the last 365 days
Seegene Inc. has 20 pending office actions within the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. These 20 pending office actions are distributed among 20 distinct examiners, meaning every active matter is currently being reviewed by a different individual. The portfolio spans 14 distinct art units, reflecting a technological footprint within the biotech sector. This distribution requires managing twenty unique examiner relationships across 14 distinct art units.
The busiest examiner, HAYNES, DAWN TRINAH, is managing 1 busiest examiner pending action. Because the busiest examiner pending count is 1 and there are 20 distinct examiners for 20 pending office actions, the workload is perfectly distributed. No single examiner holds more influence than another over the current portfolio. For practitioners, this means that prosecution strategies must be tailored to the specific habits of 20 different individuals across 14 distinct art units. There is no central examiner whose decisions would significantly shift the trajectory of the entire 20-action portfolio at once. Success depends on the independent outcomes of each of the 20 pending office actions.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 8 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 8 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 only | 1 (5%) |
| §101 + other | 6 (27%) |
| §103 only | 3 (14%) |
| §102 only | 1 (5%) |
| §112 only | 2 (9%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 2 (9%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 7 (32%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HAYNES, DAWN TRINAH | 1 | 2.5% | +0.9% |
| ADAMS, GREGORY W | 1 | 75.2% | +23.8% |
| SZUMNY, JONATHON A | 1 | 57.4% | +57.1% |
| KEENA, ELLA LORRAINE | 1 | 9.1% | +19.4% |
| KWAK, DEAN P | 1 | 58.7% | +37.1% |
| JONES, CHRISTINE MICHELLE | 1 | 0.0% | +0.0% |
| HUYNH, EMILY | 1 | 21.9% | +43.6% |
| WRIGHT, PATRICIA KATHRYN | 1 | 65.3% | +42.6% |
| MERCADO, ALEXANDER A | 1 | 69.4% | +19.6% |
| YU, TIAN NMN | 1 | 55.1% | +20.4% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18578812 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING HEIGHT OF SOLUTION ACCOMMODATED IN CONTAINER | MERCADO, ALEXANDER A | 45d overdue |
| 17704557 | CARTRIDGE FOR DETECTING TARGET ANALYTE | GORDON, BRIAN R | 45d overdue |
| 18998345 | METHOD AND COMPUTING APPARATUS FOR TESTING COMMUNITY GROUP FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASE AND NOTIFYING TEST RESULTS | HAYNES, DAWN TRINAH | 25d overdue |
| 18014645 | SAMPLING KITS AND METHODS FOR DETECTING RESPIRATORY PATHOGENS | PARKIN, JEFFREY S | 9d overdue |
| 18691972 | METHOD OF GENERATING INDIVIDUAL-DIRECTED INFORMATION RECORD SHEET BY MIR SERVER | HUYNH, EMILY | 16d |
| 18865889 | METHOD FOR CONTROLLING DISPLAYING OF MOLECULAR DIAGNOSTIC RESULTS AND COMPUTER DEVICE FOR PERFORMING SAME | SZUMNY, JONATHON A | 27d |
| 17434455 | METHODS FOR DETERMINING A DESIGNABLE REGION OF OLIGONUCLEOTIDES | BICKHAM, DAWN MARIE | 61d |
| 18841116 | FILM CUTTING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CUTTING CONTAINER COVER FILM USING SAME | KEENA, ELLA LORRAINE | — |
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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18578812 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING HEIGHT OF SOLUTION ACCOMMODATED IN CONTAINER | MERCADO, ALEXANDER A | 45d overdue |
| 18691972 | METHOD OF GENERATING INDIVIDUAL-DIRECTED INFORMATION RECORD SHEET BY MIR SERVER | HUYNH, EMILY | 16d |
| 18865889 | METHOD FOR CONTROLLING DISPLAYING OF MOLECULAR DIAGNOSTIC RESULTS AND COMPUTER DEVICE FOR PERFORMING SAME | SZUMNY, JONATHON A | 27d |
| 18997263 | APPARATUS FOR FEEDING PRODUCT BOX | ADAMS, GREGORY W | — |
| 18841116 | FILM CUTTING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CUTTING CONTAINER COVER FILM USING SAME | KEENA, ELLA LORRAINE | — |
| 18696825 | METHOD FOR PROCESSING AND ANALYZING SAMPLE IN MOLECULAR DIAGNOSTIC SYSTEM | KWAK, DEAN P | — |
| 18580678 | ASSEMBLED ANALYSIS SYSTEM, METHOD, AND COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM | WRIGHT, PATRICIA KATHRYN | — |
| 18570381 | DETECTION OF MULTIPLE TARGET NUCLEIC ACID USING MULTIPLE DETECTION TEMPERATURES | YU, TIAN NMN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3686 | 2 |
| 1681 | 2 |
| 1798 | 2 |
| 3652 | 1 |
| 3724 | 1 |
| 1682 | 1 |
| 3683 | 1 |
| 2855 | 1 |
| 2877 | 1 |
| 2675 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18998345 | METHOD AND COMPUTING APPARATUS FOR TESTING COMMUNITY GROUP FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASE AND NOTIFYING TEST RESULTS | HAYNES, DAWN TRINAH | 3686 | §101§102§103 | Final Rejection | 25d overdue | Pending | Jan 24, 2025 |
| 18997263 | APPARATUS FOR FEEDING PRODUCT BOX | ADAMS, GREGORY W | 3652 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 21, 2025 |
| 18865889 | METHOD FOR CONTROLLING DISPLAYING OF MOLECULAR DIAGNOSTIC RESULTS AND COMPUTER DEVICE FOR PERFORMING SAME | SZUMNY, JONATHON A | 3686 | §101§103§112 | Final Rejection | 27d | Pending | Nov 14, 2024 |
| 18841116 | FILM CUTTING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CUTTING CONTAINER COVER FILM USING SAME | KEENA, ELLA LORRAINE | 3724 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 23, 2024 |
| 18696825 | METHOD FOR PROCESSING AND ANALYZING SAMPLE IN MOLECULAR DIAGNOSTIC SYSTEM | KWAK, DEAN P | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 28, 2024 |
| 18692623 | DETECTION OF TARGET NUCLEIC ACID SEQUENCE BY USING SYNTHETIC NON-NATURAL BASE-BEARING TAG OLIGONUCLEOTIDE | JONES, CHRISTINE MICHELLE | 1682 | §112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 15, 2024 |
| 18691972 | METHOD OF GENERATING INDIVIDUAL-DIRECTED INFORMATION RECORD SHEET BY MIR SERVER | HUYNH, EMILY | 3683 | §101§112 | Non-Final OA | 16d | Pending | Mar 14, 2024 |
| 18580678 | ASSEMBLED ANALYSIS SYSTEM, METHOD, AND COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM | WRIGHT, PATRICIA KATHRYN | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 19, 2024 |
| 18578812 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING HEIGHT OF SOLUTION ACCOMMODATED IN CONTAINER | MERCADO, ALEXANDER A | 2855 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 45d overdue | Pending | Jan 12, 2024 |
| 18570381 | DETECTION OF MULTIPLE TARGET NUCLEIC ACID USING MULTIPLE DETECTION TEMPERATURES | YU, TIAN NMN | 1681 | §102§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 14, 2023 |
| 18289693 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING MAGNETIC BEAD CONCENTRATION IN SUSPENSION | TON, TRI T | 2877 | §103 | Final Rejection | 19d overdue | Pending | Nov 06, 2023 |
| 18386759 | CARTRIDGE FOR DETECTING TARGET ANALYTE | KASS, BENJAMIN JOSEPH | 1798 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 03, 2023 |
| 18287911 | SELF-SAMPLING MANAGEMENT ELECTRONIC DEVICE, SELF-SAMPLING MANAGEMENT METHOD, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM TO PERFORM THE METHOD | VAUGHN, ALEXANDER JOSEPH | 2675 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 23, 2023 |
| 18038650 | COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED METHOD FOR PREPARING OLIGONUCLEOTIDES USED TO DETECT NUCLEOTIDE MUTATION OF INTEREST | BEVERIDGE, CONNOR HAMMOND | — | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 24, 2023 |
| 18014645 | SAMPLING KITS AND METHODS FOR DETECTING RESPIRATORY PATHOGENS | PARKIN, JEFFREY S | 1671 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 9d overdue | Pending | Jan 05, 2023 |
| 17985412 | APPARATUS FOR DETECTING TARGET ANALYTE | GERHARD, ALISON CLAIRE | 1797 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 11, 2022 |
| 17913298 | METHOD FOR MANAGING RESPIRATORY INFECTIONS THROUGH MOBILE TERMINAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM INCLUDING CENTRAL MANAGEMENT SERVER, SERVER, AND COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM | WILLIAMS, TERESA S | 3687 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 21, 2022 |
| 17704557 | CARTRIDGE FOR DETECTING TARGET ANALYTE | GORDON, BRIAN R | 1798 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 45d overdue | Pending | Mar 25, 2022 |
| 17434455 | METHODS FOR DETERMINING A DESIGNABLE REGION OF OLIGONUCLEOTIDES | BICKHAM, DAWN MARIE | 1685 | §101 | Final Rejection | 61d | Pending | Aug 27, 2021 |
| 17054233 | METHOD FOR DETECTING GUT MICROORGANISM IN A SAMPLE USING NORMAL GUT FLORA AS INTERNAL CONTROL | WOOLWINE, SAMUEL C | 1681 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 10, 2020 |
| 16306213 | METHOD FOR DETECTING A TARGET ANALYTE IN A SAMPLE USING A SIGNAL CHANGE-AMOUNT DATA SET | WOITACH, JOSEPH T | 1687 | §101§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 30, 2018 |
| 15534577 | DETECTION OF TARGET NUCLEIC ACID SEQUENCES USING DIFFERENT DETECTION TEMPERATURES AND REFERENCE VALUES | LU, FRANK WEI MIN | 1683 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 09, 2017 |
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