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
Sophie'S Bionutrients Pte. Ltd. is managing 1 pending office action in the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. This action is assigned to a distinct examiner, FONSECA LOPEZ, FRANCINI ALVARENGA, who is currently the busiest examiner for the portfolio with 1 pending action. This indicates that the company's immediate patent prosecution is focused on a single application within a specific technical field. The applicant can concentrate their legal and scientific resources on this one active matter.
The presence of a distinct art unit suggests that the company's current filings are concentrated in a specialized area of biotechnology. Because there is a distinct examiner involved, the applicant can focus their resources on addressing the specific requirements and interpretations of FONSECA LOPEZ, FRANCINI ALVARENGA. This avoids the need to manage multiple, potentially conflicting, examiner perspectives across the portfolio. A centralized prosecution strategy like this often leads to more consistent outcomes and clearer patent boundaries.
With a solitary pending office action, the administrative overhead for the company's patent prosecution is low. The distinct examiner and art unit represent the entirety of the company's current active engagement with the USPTO. This allows for a very targeted strategy in the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals sector, as the applicant only needs to resolve the pending matter to clear their current prosecution docket. This focus is beneficial for a company looking to establish a strong initial foothold in the patent landscape.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FONSECA LOPEZ, FRANCINI ALVARENGA | 1 | 29.6% | +37.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17563103 | AI SIMULATION FOR MICROALGAE FERMENTATION | FONSECA LOPEZ, FRANCINI ALVARENGA | 15d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17563103 | AI SIMULATION FOR MICROALGAE FERMENTATION | FONSECA LOPEZ, FRANCINI ALVARENGA | 15d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1685 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17563103 | AI SIMULATION FOR MICROALGAE FERMENTATION | FONSECA LOPEZ, FRANCINI ALVARENGA | 1685 | §101§103§112 | Final Rejection | 15d | Pending | Dec 28, 2021 |
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