Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals
7 pending office actions • 3 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Takara Bio Usa Inc. is managing 6 pending office actions in the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. These actions are handled by 5 distinct examiners across 3 distinct art units. LU, FRANK WEI MIN is the busiest examiner, with 2 pending office actions currently under review. The 6 pending actions are distributed such that the 5 distinct examiners handle the workload. The use of 3 distinct art units suggests that the company's biotechnology filings are grouped into several technical categories.
This arrangement provides a level of examiner and art unit diversity for the portfolio of 6 actions. With 5 distinct examiners involved, the company interacts with multiple officials, though LU, FRANK WEI MIN handles 2 of the actions. This distribution balances the workload while maintaining a presence in 3 distinct art units. The involvement of 3 distinct art units indicates that the company's technology is being evaluated by different technical sections of the patent office. LU, FRANK WEI MIN is the busiest examiner for these 6 pending office actions.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 | 3 (43%) |
| §102 only | 1 (14%) |
| §112 only | 1 (14%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (29%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LU, FRANK WEI MIN | 2 | 62.7% | +67.7% |
| GROSS, CHRISTOPHER M | 1 | 63.5% | +40.2% |
| BERA, HENA RAKESHKUMAR | 1 | — | — |
| WOOLWINE, SAMUEL C | 1 | 61.0% | +20.4% |
| BERTAGNA, ANGELA MARIE | 1 | 44.7% | +46.3% |
| CHUNDURU, SURYAPRABHA | 1 | 53.3% | +17.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17401662 | Methods for Adding Adapters to Nucleic Acids and Compositions for Practicing the Same | BERTAGNA, ANGELA MARIE | 5d |
| 16963365 | Methods of Amplifying Nucleic Acids and Compositions and Kits for Practicing the Same | CHUNDURU, SURYAPRABHA | 30d |
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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17980848 | Methods for Adding Adapters to Nucleic Acids and Compositions for Practicing the Same | LU, FRANK WEI MIN | 17d overdue |
| 17401662 | Methods for Adding Adapters to Nucleic Acids and Compositions for Practicing the Same | BERTAGNA, ANGELA MARIE | 5d |
| 16963365 | Methods of Amplifying Nucleic Acids and Compositions and Kits for Practicing the Same | CHUNDURU, SURYAPRABHA | 30d |
| 19363300 | Methods for Adding Adapters to Nucleic Acids and Compositions for Practicing the Same | LU, FRANK WEI MIN | — |
| 18291773 | Methods and Compositions for Producing Cell-Source Identifiable Collections of Nucleic Acids | GROSS, CHRISTOPHER M | — |
| 17825878 | Methods and Compositions Employing Blocked Primers | WOOLWINE, SAMUEL C | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1681 | 3 |
| 1683 | 2 |
| 1758 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19363300 | Methods for Adding Adapters to Nucleic Acids and Compositions for Practicing the Same | LU, FRANK WEI MIN | 1683 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 20, 2025 |
| 18291773 | Methods and Compositions for Producing Cell-Source Identifiable Collections of Nucleic Acids | GROSS, CHRISTOPHER M | — | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 24, 2024 |
| 18519715 | Device for Liquid Handling | BERA, HENA RAKESHKUMAR | 1758 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 27, 2023 |
| 17980848 | Methods for Adding Adapters to Nucleic Acids and Compositions for Practicing the Same | LU, FRANK WEI MIN | 1683 | §112 | Final Rejection | 17d overdue | Pending | Nov 04, 2022 |
| 17825878 | Methods and Compositions Employing Blocked Primers | WOOLWINE, SAMUEL C | 1681 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 26, 2022 |
| 17401662 | Methods for Adding Adapters to Nucleic Acids and Compositions for Practicing the Same | BERTAGNA, ANGELA MARIE | 1681 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 5d | Pending | Aug 13, 2021 |
| 16963365 | Methods of Amplifying Nucleic Acids and Compositions and Kits for Practicing the Same | CHUNDURU, SURYAPRABHA | 1681 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 30d | Pending | Jul 20, 2020 |
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