Technology area: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
The United States Government AS Represented By The Department Of Veterans Af currently has 1 pending office action in the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. This prosecution is being conducted by 1 distinct examiner within 1 distinct art unit. The nature of this activity suggests a targeted patenting effort in this specific technical field.
The busiest examiner, PERREIRA, MELISSA JEAN, is responsible for 1 pending office action. This 1 pending action accounts for the pending volume for the company. Consequently, the immediate future of the portfolio's prosecution is dependent on the dialogue with the 1 distinct examiner and their interpretation of the biotechnology standards within the 1 distinct art unit.
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 |
|---|---|
| Double-patenting only | 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 | 52.1% | +25.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17111158 | DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT FOR RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASES | PERREIRA, MELISSA JEAN | 50d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1618 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17111158 | DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT FOR RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASES | PERREIRA, MELISSA JEAN | 1618 | DP | Final Rejection | 50d | Pending | Dec 03, 2020 |
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Start Free TrialThe United States Government AS Represented By The Department Of Veterans Af has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Melissa Jean Perreira has the most, with 1 of The United States Government AS Represented By The Department Of Veterans Af's pending office actions.
Mostly Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals (USPTO Tech Center 1600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
