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
Social Welfare Organization "Saiseikai" Imperial Gift Foundation Inc. has 1 pending office action in the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. This action is assigned to DUNN, MCKENZIE A, the busiest examiner for the company with 1 pending action. The prosecution profile is limited to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. This indicates that the 1 pending office action is the only active case for the company at the USPTO.
Practitioners should note that the 1 distinct examiner in the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals area holds all current responsibility for the company's 1 pending action. The concentration in 1 distinct art unit suggests that the technical subject matter is highly focused. Because the 1 pending office action represents the total active workload, the practitioner must tailor their arguments to the specific technical standards of the 1 distinct art unit involved. Success for the organization in this matter depends entirely on the 1 distinct examiner's interpretation of the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals claims.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DUNN, MCKENZIE A | 1 | 54.2% | +57.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17135168 | METHOD FOR EXAMINING LIVER CANCER | DUNN, MCKENZIE A | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17135168 | METHOD FOR EXAMINING LIVER CANCER | DUNN, MCKENZIE A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1678 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17135168 | METHOD FOR EXAMINING LIVER CANCER | DUNN, MCKENZIE A | 1678 | §101 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 28, 2020 |
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Start Free TrialSocial Welfare Organization "Saiseikai" Imperial Gift Foundation Inc. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Mckenzie A Dunn has the most, with 1 of Social Welfare Organization "Saiseikai" Imperial Gift Foundation Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals (USPTO Tech Center 1600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.