Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Chemistry & Materials
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Taiwan Mitochondrion Applied Technology Co. Ltd. currently manages 4 pending office actions in the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. These matters are assigned to distinct examiners, ensuring that the company's prosecution is not overly dependent on any single official. The actions are also spread across a matching number of distinct art units, which indicates a wide technical distribution for the company's active intellectual property.
BRENDAN THOMAS TINSLEY is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, overseeing 1 pending office action. Because the busiest examiner pending count is only a quarter of the 4 total pending office actions, the company must manage multiple separate lines of communication with the patent office. This one to one ratio between actions, examiners, and art units suggests that each application is being treated as a unique technical and procedural challenge. Practitioners should be prepared to adapt their arguments to the specific standards of the various art units and the preferences of the different examiners to advance the pharmaceutical portfolio effectively.
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 (33%) |
| §102 only | 1 (33%) |
| §112 only | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TINSLEY, BRENDAN THOMAS | 1 | 60.4% | +74.3% |
| WRIGHT, ERIC BRANDON | 1 | 0.0% | +0.0% |
| MELLER, MICHAEL V | 1 | 47.2% | +28.0% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18093767 | PROTECTIVE SOLUTION FOR ISOLATING MITOCHONDRIA, USE THEREOF, KIT COMPRISING THE SAME, AND METHOD FOR ISOLATING MITOCHONDRIA | WRIGHT, ERIC BRANDON | — |
| 17948007 | COMPOSITION COMPRISING MITOCHONDRIA AND USE THEREOF FOR REPAIRING CARTILAGE DAMAGE OR IMPROVING OSTEOARTHRITIS | MELLER, MICHAEL V | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18844740 | COMPOSITION FOR ORAL DAMAGE MITIGATION, USE THEREOF, AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF | TINSLEY, BRENDAN THOMAS | — |
| 17948007 | COMPOSITION COMPRISING MITOCHONDRIA AND USE THEREOF FOR REPAIRING CARTILAGE DAMAGE OR IMPROVING OSTEOARTHRITIS | MELLER, MICHAEL V | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1634 | 1 |
| 1799 | 1 |
| 1655 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18844740 | COMPOSITION FOR ORAL DAMAGE MITIGATION, USE THEREOF, AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF | TINSLEY, BRENDAN THOMAS | 1634 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 06, 2024 |
| 18093767 | PROTECTIVE SOLUTION FOR ISOLATING MITOCHONDRIA, USE THEREOF, KIT COMPRISING THE SAME, AND METHOD FOR ISOLATING MITOCHONDRIA | WRIGHT, ERIC BRANDON | 1799 | §102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 05, 2023 |
| 17948007 | COMPOSITION COMPRISING MITOCHONDRIA AND USE THEREOF FOR REPAIRING CARTILAGE DAMAGE OR IMPROVING OSTEOARTHRITIS | MELLER, MICHAEL V | 1655 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 19, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialTaiwan Mitochondrion Applied Technology Co. Ltd. has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 3 examiners.
Brendan Thomas Tinsley has the most, with 1 of Taiwan Mitochondrion Applied Technology Co. Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals (USPTO Tech Center 1600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
