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 • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Surfactgreen has 1 pending office action in the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. The prosecution involves 1 distinct examiner, YU, HONG, and 1 distinct art unit. YU, HONG is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently overseeing 1 busiest examiner pending action. This indicates that the company's current patenting efforts are focused on a single innovation.
For the practitioner, having 1 distinct examiner means that the prosecution strategy can be tailored to the specific habits of YU, HONG. The 1 pending office action represents the entire active workload, allowing for a dedicated and efficient response. This 1 busiest examiner pending arrangement within 1 distinct art unit simplifies the management of the portfolio. The specific focus on the 1 distinct art unit suggests that the company is pursuing a specialized biotechnology technology through the 1 pending office action.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| YU, HONG | 1 | 30.9% | +5.6% |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1614 | 1 |
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