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
The University Of Saskatchewan is currently managing 1 pending office action within the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. The data shows that this matter is assigned to 1 distinct art unit, indicating a focused area of research and patenting. There is 1 distinct examiner currently reviewing the company's active application, which centralizes the prosecution process. This focus on 1 distinct art unit suggests a specialized academic or commercial application within the biotechnology sector.
The busiest examiner identified is KOSAR, AARON J, who is handling 1 busiest examiner pending office action. This 1 examiner is responsible for the 1 pending office action currently active for the university. Successful prosecution in this 1 distinct art unit requires a clear understanding of the specific feedback and examination patterns of KOSAR, AARON J to resolve the matter. The university's current patent efforts are concentrated on this interaction with the 1 distinct examiner.
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 |
|---|---|
| §102 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KOSAR, AARON J | 1 | 71.2% | +29.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18029316 | APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR CONTROLLING ORGAN TEMPERATURE PRIOR TO AND/OR DURING TRANSPLANTATION PROCEDURES | KOSAR, AARON J | 8d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1655 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18029316 | APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR CONTROLLING ORGAN TEMPERATURE PRIOR TO AND/OR DURING TRANSPLANTATION PROCEDURES | KOSAR, AARON J | 1655 | §102 | Final Rejection | 8d | Pending | Mar 29, 2023 |
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