Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
UCL CO., LTD. has 3 pending office actions within the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. These actions are distributed among 3 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. This indicates that the company's intellectual property is being evaluated by different specialized units within the biotechnology sector. The presence of the art units suggests that the pending office actions cover a variety of technical subjects.
MEYER, GEORGE WILLIAM is the busiest examiner, overseeing 1 pending office action. With the distinct examiners each responsible for a single pending office action, the workload is decentralized. The involvement of 2 distinct art units means the company must navigate the specific examination practices of different groups. This distribution across the examiners ensures that the progress of the portfolio is not dependent on the schedule of a single official.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 2 (67%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MEYER, GEORGE WILLIAM | 1 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
| STANKOVIC, BRATISLAV | 1 | 70.0% | +21.9% |
| FIEBIG, RUSSELL G | 1 | 62.6% | +25.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19002106 | METHOD OF CULTIVATING HIBISCUS HAMABO'S ADVENTITIOUS ROOT AND COSMETIC COMPOSITION COMPRISING THE EXTRACT OF HIBISCUS HAMABO'S ADVENTITIOUS ROOT CULTIVATED THEREBY | MEYER, GEORGE WILLIAM | 13d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18980879 | METHOD OF CULTIVATING AND EXTRACTING CALLUS OF DAMNACANTHUS MAJOR AND COSMETIC COMPOSITION COMPRISING DAMNACANTHUS MAJOR CALLUS PREPARED BY USING THE SAME | STANKOVIC, BRATISLAV | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17913042 | Composition for preventing hair loss or promoting hair growth comprising extract of above-ground part of carrots | FIEBIG, RUSSELL G | 155d overdue |
| 18980879 | METHOD OF CULTIVATING AND EXTRACTING CALLUS OF DAMNACANTHUS MAJOR AND COSMETIC COMPOSITION COMPRISING DAMNACANTHUS MAJOR CALLUS PREPARED BY USING THE SAME | STANKOVIC, BRATISLAV | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1662 | 2 |
| 1655 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19002106 | METHOD OF CULTIVATING HIBISCUS HAMABO'S ADVENTITIOUS ROOT AND COSMETIC COMPOSITION COMPRISING THE EXTRACT OF HIBISCUS HAMABO'S ADVENTITIOUS ROOT CULTIVATED THEREBY | MEYER, GEORGE WILLIAM | 1662 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 13d | Pending | Dec 26, 2024 |
| 18980879 | METHOD OF CULTIVATING AND EXTRACTING CALLUS OF DAMNACANTHUS MAJOR AND COSMETIC COMPOSITION COMPRISING DAMNACANTHUS MAJOR CALLUS PREPARED BY USING THE SAME | STANKOVIC, BRATISLAV | 1662 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 13, 2024 |
| 17913042 | Composition for preventing hair loss or promoting hair growth comprising extract of above-ground part of carrots | FIEBIG, RUSSELL G | 1655 | §103 | Final Rejection | 155d overdue | Pending | Sep 20, 2022 |
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