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
Technische Universitat Munchen is active in the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area with a portfolio that currently shows 1 pending office action. This 1 pending office action represents the only active prosecution matter for the university. The examiner assigned to this case is PERREIRA, MELISSA JEAN, who is the busiest examiner for the portfolio. With 1 busiest examiner pending action, the university's immediate progress in the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals sector is tied to this interaction.
The portfolio's prosecution is centralized, involving 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. This suggests that the university's research and resulting innovations are concentrated within a specific niche of the pharmaceutical industry. By operating within 1 distinct art unit, the university only needs to navigate the specific standards and timelines of that unit. The presence of 1 distinct examiner means that the university can focus its resources on a single relationship rather than managing multiple examiner styles. This 1 pending office action is the sole focus of the current efforts to secure intellectual property assets for Technische Universitat Munchen.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PERREIRA, MELISSA JEAN | 1 | 52.0% | +25.8% |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17866034 | PSMA LIGANDS FOR IMAGING AND ENDORADIOTHERAPY | PERREIRA, MELISSA JEAN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1618 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17866034 | PSMA LIGANDS FOR IMAGING AND ENDORADIOTHERAPY | PERREIRA, MELISSA JEAN | 1618 | §102§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 15, 2022 |
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