Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Silicycle Inc. has 2 pending office actions in the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. These actions are assigned to 2 distinct examiners and distinct art units. PHAN, DOAN THI-THUC is the busiest examiner for the portfolio and manages 1 pending office action. The busiest examiner manages 1 pending office action out of the total pending matters. This distribution indicates that the company's filings are reviewed by different technical groups. Practitioners can expect varied prosecution timelines based on the involvement of various examiners.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 (50%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PHAN, DOAN THI-THUC | 1 | 42.7% | +47.7% |
| NGUYEN, NGOC-ANH THI | 1 | 28.1% | +49.8% |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17290052 | HYDROPHOBICITY/HYDROPHILICITY-TUNABLE ORGANOSILOXANE NANO-/MICROSPHERES AND PROCESS TO MAKE THEM | NGUYEN, NGOC-ANH THI | 58d overdue |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17290052 | HYDROPHOBICITY/HYDROPHILICITY-TUNABLE ORGANOSILOXANE NANO-/MICROSPHERES AND PROCESS TO MAKE THEM | NGUYEN, NGOC-ANH THI | 58d overdue |
| 17431934 | DIRECT NANOEMULSION PROCESS FOR THE SYNTHESIS OF SPHEROIDAL ORGANOSILOXANE SUB-MICRON/NANOPARTICLES | PHAN, DOAN THI-THUC | 14d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1613 | 1 |
| 1615 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17431934 | DIRECT NANOEMULSION PROCESS FOR THE SYNTHESIS OF SPHEROIDAL ORGANOSILOXANE SUB-MICRON/NANOPARTICLES | PHAN, DOAN THI-THUC | 1613 | §103DP | Final Rejection | 14d | Pending | Aug 18, 2021 |
| 17290052 | HYDROPHOBICITY/HYDROPHILICITY-TUNABLE ORGANOSILOXANE NANO-/MICROSPHERES AND PROCESS TO MAKE THEM | NGUYEN, NGOC-ANH THI | 1615 | §103 | Final Rejection | 58d overdue | Pending | Apr 29, 2021 |
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