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
Shenzhen Blood Center (Shenzhen Institute Of Transfusion Medicine) has 1 pending office action in the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. This matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, reflecting a concentrated prosecution footprint. This narrow focus suggests that the company's current patent strategy is centered on a specific innovation in transfusion medicine. The involvement of 1 distinct art unit ensures that the review process is localized within a single technical department. The Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals sector requires precise alignment with departmental standards.
PETER N. JOHANSEN is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, overseeing 1 busiest examiner pending action. This single action represents the total pending workload for the company. Because there is only 1 distinct examiner, the company's immediate patent success depends on the review of this individual. The 1 pending office action is the only active hurdle for the company in this technology area. Practitioners should focus on the specific examination style of this individual to resolve the 1 busiest examiner pending action efficiently. This focus on 1 distinct art unit simplifies the administrative management of the active applications.
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 |
|---|---|
| §112 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| JOHANSEN, PETER N. | 1 | 59.3% | +24.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18376678 | METHOD FOR DETECTING DRUG ANTIBODY IN SPECIMEN | JOHANSEN, PETER N. | 77d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1644 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18376678 | METHOD FOR DETECTING DRUG ANTIBODY IN SPECIMEN | JOHANSEN, PETER N. | 1644 | §112 | Non-Final OA | 77d | Pending | Oct 04, 2023 |
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