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
United Animal Health Inc. currently has 1 pending office action within the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. This matter is being reviewed by 1 distinct examiner, which represents a focused point of contact for the company's prosecution efforts. The data indicates that 1 distinct art unit is involved, suggesting that the technical scope of the application is confined to a specific examination group at the USPTO. This lack of fragmentation allows for a streamlined legal strategy focused on a single set of technical requirements and examiner expectations. The presence of 1 pending office action indicates a very specific focus for the company's current intellectual property efforts.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is MUMMERT, STEPHANIE KANE, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. With a busiest examiner pending count of 1, this individual manages all active prosecution for the company. The presence of 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit means that the portfolio's progress is tied directly to the resolution of this 1 pending office action. For the applicant, this concentration simplifies administrative tasks but places a high importance on the specific interaction with the 1 assigned examiner in the biotechnology field.
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 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MUMMERT, STEPHANIE KANE | 1 | 61.2% | +21.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18439529 | NUCLEIC ACID DETECTION AND QUANTIFICATION METHOD AND COMPOSITIONS | MUMMERT, STEPHANIE KANE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1637 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18439529 | NUCLEIC ACID DETECTION AND QUANTIFICATION METHOD AND COMPOSITIONS | MUMMERT, STEPHANIE KANE | 1637 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 12, 2024 |
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