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 • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Ucb S.A. currently has 1 pending office action in the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. This matter is overseen by 1 distinct examiner, BUNNER, BRIDGET E, in 1 distinct art unit. BUNNER, BRIDGET E is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, managing the 1 busiest examiner pending action. This reflects a very focused current workload for the company's pending applications.
The involvement of 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit suggests a streamlined prosecution process. Because there is only 1 pending office action, the applicant can concentrate on the specific feedback provided by BUNNER, BRIDGET E. This 1 busiest examiner pending status avoids the complexities of managing multiple examiners with different perspectives on biotechnology patent law. The 1 distinct art unit involved will define the specific prior art landscape that the applicant must navigate to secure their intellectual property for the 1 pending office action.
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 + other | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BUNNER, BRIDGET E | 1 | 64.5% | +19.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17750444 | PROTEIN PURIFICATION | BUNNER, BRIDGET E | 111d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1647 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17750444 | PROTEIN PURIFICATION | BUNNER, BRIDGET E | 1647 | §112DP | Non-Final OA | 111d overdue | Pending | May 23, 2022 |
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