Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
The Trustees Of Wheaton College manage a company patent portfolio in the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. The portfolio currently has 2 pending office actions. These actions are being handled by 2 distinct examiners, yet they are both located within 1 distinct art unit. The busiest examiner is DICKINSON, PAUL W, who is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending office action.
For a practitioner, this is an interesting case where the technology is concentrated in 1 distinct art unit but involves 2 distinct examiners. This suggests a consistent technical focus within Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals but requires managing different examiner personalities. The prosecution strategy must be coordinated across the 2 pending office actions within the same art unit. Having 2 distinct examiners in 1 distinct art unit allows for some comparison of examination styles within a single technical field. Practitioners should ensure that arguments made in one office action are consistent with the other.
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 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DICKINSON, PAUL W | 1 | 63.1% | +9.5% |
| CRAIG, KAILA ANGELIQUE | 1 | 33.8% | +25.2% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17773485 | DESIGN AND CHARACTERIZATION OF MULTILAYERED STRUCTURES FOR SUPPORT OF LIPID BILAYERS | DICKINSON, PAUL W | 139d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17047939 | IMPROVED MEMBRANES FOR NANOPORE SENSING APPLICATIONS | CRAIG, KAILA ANGELIQUE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1618 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17773485 | DESIGN AND CHARACTERIZATION OF MULTILAYERED STRUCTURES FOR SUPPORT OF LIPID BILAYERS | DICKINSON, PAUL W | 1618 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 139d overdue | Pending | Apr 29, 2022 |
| 17047939 | IMPROVED MEMBRANES FOR NANOPORE SENSING APPLICATIONS | CRAIG, KAILA ANGELIQUE | 1618 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 15, 2020 |
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