Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Chemistry & Materials
4 pending office actions • 3 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
The University Court of the University of Glasgow maintains a portfolio with 4 pending office actions and 4 distinct examiners, all situated within the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. This workload distribution suggests that each pending matter is being handled by a different individual. The prosecution activity spans 3 distinct art units, reflecting technical diversity within the specified technology area.
CLARKE, TRENT R is identified as the busiest examiner, currently overseeing 1 busiest examiner pending action. Because the active cases are spread across multiple points of contact, no individual examiner holds a majority of the workload. This distribution indicates that the university's legal strategy involves navigating several examiners within the patent office simultaneously.
The presence of 3 distinct art units shows that the portfolio's biotechnology and pharmaceutical interests are spread across related examination groups. Practitioners should note that the busiest examiner pending count of 1 represents only a fraction of the total volume of active office actions.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (25%) |
| §102 only | 1 (25%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (25%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CLARKE, TRENT R | 1 | 42.0% | +24.0% |
| BUCHANAN, BAILEY CHEYENNE | 1 | 42.9% | +57.1% |
| MONTGOMERY, ANN Y | 1 | 69.0% | +27.7% |
| KRCHA, MATTHEW D | 1 | 64.7% | +35.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18290974 | PERSONALIZATION IN PROSTATE CANCER BY USE OF THE PROSTATE CANCER PDE4D7 KNOCK-DOWN SCORE | BUCHANAN, BAILEY CHEYENNE | — |
| 17797256 | SURFACE PLASMONIC SENSING | KRCHA, MATTHEW D | — |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17919508 | FLUID HANDLING DEVICE AND METHODS | MONTGOMERY, ANN Y | 28d |
| 18814678 | ENGINEERED PARASITES FOR DELIVERING PROTEIN TO THE CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM (CNS) | CLARKE, TRENT R | — |
| 18290974 | PERSONALIZATION IN PROSTATE CANCER BY USE OF THE PROSTATE CANCER PDE4D7 KNOCK-DOWN SCORE | BUCHANAN, BAILEY CHEYENNE | — |
| 17797256 | SURFACE PLASMONIC SENSING | KRCHA, MATTHEW D | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1682 | 1 |
| 1678 | 1 |
| 1796 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18814678 | ENGINEERED PARASITES FOR DELIVERING PROTEIN TO THE CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM (CNS) | CLARKE, TRENT R | — | §103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 26, 2024 |
| 18290974 | PERSONALIZATION IN PROSTATE CANCER BY USE OF THE PROSTATE CANCER PDE4D7 KNOCK-DOWN SCORE | BUCHANAN, BAILEY CHEYENNE | 1682 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 22, 2024 |
| 17919508 | FLUID HANDLING DEVICE AND METHODS | MONTGOMERY, ANN Y | 1678 | §102 | Final Rejection | 28d | Pending | Oct 17, 2022 |
| 17797256 | SURFACE PLASMONIC SENSING | KRCHA, MATTHEW D | 1796 | §102§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 03, 2022 |
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