Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Communications • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
4 pending office actions • 4 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Themba Inc. manages a portfolio in the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area with 4 pending office actions. These actions are distributed across 4 distinct examiners and 4 distinct art units, showing that every pending matter is currently assigned to a different individual and a different administrative unit. This distribution creates a broad footprint across the patent office's biotechnology divisions. Practitioners should prepare for varied prosecution styles across the 4 distinct art units involved in these proceedings, as no single unit dominates the workload.
The busiest examiner for this company is ALLEN, KYLA GUAN-PING TI, who is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Given that the total pending office actions count is 4, the busiest examiner accounts for a limited part of the overall workload. This indicates a lack of examiner concentration, as the 4 distinct examiners handle the pending matters separately. The data shows that the 1 busiest examiner pending office action is one of several active items requiring independent management. Practitioners must coordinate across multiple examiners to maintain the 4 pending office actions effectively.
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 only | 1 (25%) |
| §112 only | 1 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (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, KYLA GUAN-PING TI | 1 | 89.0% | +16.7% |
| GRABER, JAMES J | 1 | 46.7% | +57.7% |
| FURTADO, WINSTON RAHUL | 1 | 19.4% | +23.4% |
| BEHARRY, ZANNA MARIA | 1 | 24.7% | +56.4% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17440548 | USING RELATIVES' INFORMATION TO DETERMINE GENETIC RISK FOR NON-MENDELIAN PHENOTYPES | FURTADO, WINSTON RAHUL | 14d |
| 18054891 | Systems and Methods to Preserve Wildlife and Enable Remote Wildlife Tourism | ALLEN, KYLA GUAN-PING TI | — |
| 17640711 | GENE EDITING FOR VIRAL INFECTIONS | GRABER, JAMES J | — |
| 17054619 | GENE EDITING FOR AUTOIMMUNE DISORDERS | BEHARRY, ZANNA MARIA | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17440548 | USING RELATIVES' INFORMATION TO DETERMINE GENETIC RISK FOR NON-MENDELIAN PHENOTYPES | FURTADO, WINSTON RAHUL | 14d |
| 18054891 | Systems and Methods to Preserve Wildlife and Enable Remote Wildlife Tourism | ALLEN, KYLA GUAN-PING TI | — |
| 17640711 | GENE EDITING FOR VIRAL INFECTIONS | GRABER, JAMES J | — |
| 17054619 | GENE EDITING FOR AUTOIMMUNE DISORDERS | BEHARRY, ZANNA MARIA | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2661 | 1 |
| 1631 | 1 |
| 3687 | 1 |
| 1632 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18054891 | Systems and Methods to Preserve Wildlife and Enable Remote Wildlife Tourism | ALLEN, KYLA GUAN-PING TI | 2661 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 12, 2022 |
| 17640711 | GENE EDITING FOR VIRAL INFECTIONS | GRABER, JAMES J | 1631 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 04, 2022 |
| 17440548 | USING RELATIVES' INFORMATION TO DETERMINE GENETIC RISK FOR NON-MENDELIAN PHENOTYPES | FURTADO, WINSTON RAHUL | 3687 | §101 | Final Rejection | 14d | Pending | Sep 17, 2021 |
| 17054619 | GENE EDITING FOR AUTOIMMUNE DISORDERS | BEHARRY, ZANNA MARIA | 1632 | §112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 11, 2020 |
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