Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Chemistry & Materials • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
4 pending office actions • 3 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Suez Groupe currently manages 4 pending office actions within the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. These actions are distributed across 4 distinct examiners, indicating a broad spread of oversight for the portfolio. The workload is further divided among 3 distinct art units, which suggests the company's intellectual property spans multiple specialized sub-sectors within the broader biotechnology field. This distribution across 3 distinct art units implies that the company is navigating different technical standards and prior art landscapes simultaneously.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is MONSHIPOURI, MARYAM, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. This specific examiner's involvement represents a portion of the 4 total pending actions. Practitioners should note that the 1 to 1 ratio between pending actions and distinct examiners implies that no single individual currently holds a concentrated volume of the company's active prosecution matters. With 4 distinct examiners reviewing 4 pending actions, the company benefits from a variety of examiner perspectives, which may reduce the impact of any single examiner's specific tendencies on the overall portfolio.
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 (25%) |
| §103 only | 1 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MONSHIPOURI, MARYAM | 1 | 79.1% | +37.5% |
| POPE, DARYL C | 1 | 85.5% | +6.4% |
| SPEER, JOSHUA MAXWELL | 1 | 76.9% | -1.5% |
| SULTANA, DILARA | 1 | 80.9% | +16.1% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17414868 | METHOD FOR EVALUATING PIPE CONDITION | SULTANA, DILARA | 121d overdue |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18718727 | BIOMETHANATION DEVICE AND ASSOCIATED METHOD | MONSHIPOURI, MARYAM | — |
| 18717879 | DETECTION OF DOMESTIC USES OF WATER CONSUMPTION | POPE, DARYL C | — |
| 18259377 | METHOD FOR RECOVERING A METAL CONTAINING HOMOGENEOUS CATALYST USING SOLID ADSORBENTS | SPEER, JOSHUA MAXWELL | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17414868 | METHOD FOR EVALUATING PIPE CONDITION | SULTANA, DILARA | 121d overdue |
| 18718727 | BIOMETHANATION DEVICE AND ASSOCIATED METHOD | MONSHIPOURI, MARYAM | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1651 | 1 |
| 1736 | 1 |
| 2858 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18718727 | BIOMETHANATION DEVICE AND ASSOCIATED METHOD | MONSHIPOURI, MARYAM | 1651 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 11, 2024 |
| 18717879 | DETECTION OF DOMESTIC USES OF WATER CONSUMPTION | POPE, DARYL C | — | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 07, 2024 |
| 18259377 | METHOD FOR RECOVERING A METAL CONTAINING HOMOGENEOUS CATALYST USING SOLID ADSORBENTS | SPEER, JOSHUA MAXWELL | 1736 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 26, 2023 |
| 17414868 | METHOD FOR EVALUATING PIPE CONDITION | SULTANA, DILARA | 2858 | §103 | Final Rejection | 121d overdue | Pending | Jun 16, 2021 |
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