Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
The Secretary of State for Defence currently manages 3 pending office actions within the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. This portfolio is distributed across 3 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units, indicating a broad spread of examination oversight. The workload is evenly distributed among the assigned personnel, as the busiest examiner, KAPUSHOC, STEPHEN THOMAS, is responsible for only 1 busiest examiner pending action. This distribution between actions and examiners suggests that each matter is being handled by a different individual.
The presence of 3 distinct art units suggests that the 3 pending office actions involve diverse technical subject matter within the broader biotechnology sector. Because the 3 distinct examiners each handle a portion of the portfolio, the prosecution strategy must account for multiple individual examiner preferences. With KAPUSHOC, STEPHEN THOMAS handling 1 busiest examiner pending action, no single examiner dominates the current pipeline. This distribution across the assigned art units requires a versatile approach to patent prosecution to address the specific requirements of each unit.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 | 2 (67%) |
| §103 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KAPUSHOC, STEPHEN THOMAS | 1 | 46.5% | +53.5% |
| BERTAGNA, ANGELA MARIE | 1 | 44.7% | +46.3% |
| ZHU, NOAH YI MIN | 1 | 80.5% | +14.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17641573 | DECOY SYSTEM | ZHU, NOAH YI MIN | 14d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18245957 | APPARATUS, KITS AND METHODS FOR PREDICTING THE DEVELOPMENT OF SEPSIS | KAPUSHOC, STEPHEN THOMAS | 9d |
| 18245685 | APPARATUS, KITS AND METHODS FOR PREDICTING THE DEVELOPMENT OF SEPSIS | BERTAGNA, ANGELA MARIE | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18245957 | APPARATUS, KITS AND METHODS FOR PREDICTING THE DEVELOPMENT OF SEPSIS | KAPUSHOC, STEPHEN THOMAS | 9d |
| 17641573 | DECOY SYSTEM | ZHU, NOAH YI MIN | 14d |
| 18245685 | APPARATUS, KITS AND METHODS FOR PREDICTING THE DEVELOPMENT OF SEPSIS | BERTAGNA, ANGELA MARIE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1683 | 1 |
| 1681 | 1 |
| 3648 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18245957 | APPARATUS, KITS AND METHODS FOR PREDICTING THE DEVELOPMENT OF SEPSIS | KAPUSHOC, STEPHEN THOMAS | 1683 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 9d | Pending | Mar 20, 2023 |
| 18245685 | APPARATUS, KITS AND METHODS FOR PREDICTING THE DEVELOPMENT OF SEPSIS | BERTAGNA, ANGELA MARIE | 1681 | §101§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 16, 2023 |
| 17641573 | DECOY SYSTEM | ZHU, NOAH YI MIN | 3648 | §103 | Final Rejection | 14d | Pending | Mar 09, 2022 |
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