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
South East Sydney Local Health District Of The Sutherland Hospital And Community Health Service has 1 pending office action in the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. The case is handled by 1 distinct examiner, STEELE, AMBER D, in 1 distinct art unit. STEELE, AMBER D is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, overseeing the 1 busiest examiner pending action. This indicates a singular focus for the company's current patent prosecution efforts.
Having 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit means that the prosecution strategy is not complicated by multiple examiner viewpoints. The 1 pending office action requires a focused response to the specific issues raised by STEELE, AMBER D. This 1 busiest examiner pending arrangement is efficient, as it centralizes all active work within a single art unit. Practitioners can focus on the specific biotechnology standards of the 1 distinct art unit to advance the 1 pending office action toward allowance.
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 |
|---|---|
| Double-patenting + 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| STEELE, AMBER D | 1 | 58.9% | +9.3% |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1658 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17756147 | Collagen gel formulations | STEELE, AMBER D | 1658 | §102§103§112DP | Non-Final OA | 30d overdue | Pending | May 18, 2022 |
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