Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
The University of Warwick has 3 pending office actions categorized under the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. These actions are distributed across 3 distinct examiners, ensuring that each pending matter is reviewed by a different individual. Furthermore, the portfolio spans a distinct art unit count that matches the number of examiners and pending actions. This spread suggests that the university's research and patenting efforts in Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals trigger reviews from multiple specialized units within the patent office.
SHEN, YANXIN NMN is the busiest examiner for the university, holding 1 pending office action. This indicates a distribution of the pending office actions across the distinct examiners and art units. Such a distribution requires the university to manage separate prosecution tracks without overlap in examiner personnel or art unit oversight. Practitioners must adapt to different examiner preferences, as the data shows no concentration that would allow for a unified negotiation strategy across the active matters.
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 (50%) |
| §102 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ALLEN, ANDRE J | 1 | 91.4% | +6.4% |
| LEONARD, ARTHUR S | 1 | 50.8% | +50.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18708943 | FLUID FLOW MEASURING APPARATUS | ALLEN, ANDRE J | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17725982 | ASSAY AND MEDICAMENT | LEONARD, ARTHUR S | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17725982 | ASSAY AND MEDICAMENT | LEONARD, ARTHUR S | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2855 | 1 |
| 1631 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18708943 | FLUID FLOW MEASURING APPARATUS | ALLEN, ANDRE J | 2855 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 09, 2024 |
| 17725982 | ASSAY AND MEDICAMENT | LEONARD, ARTHUR S | 1631 | §101§102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 21, 2022 |
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