Technology area: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Universitaet Muenster has 1 pending office action within the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. This active matter represents the university's current engagement with the patent office in the life sciences sector. The presence of a pending action indicates a focused prosecution effort for the institution's biological intellectual property.
This active matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and a specific art unit. This concentration suggests that the university's technical developments are categorized within a very narrow specialized group. Madeline Mcguire Dekarske is the busiest examiner for the university, handling the pending office action. The alignment of all active work under this individual creates a centralized prosecution environment.
Practitioners should note that the results of the university's current patenting efforts are heavily influenced by the specific examination approach of Madeline Mcguire Dekarske. While this centralization simplifies the management of active cases, it also means the portfolio does not benefit from a diversity of examiner viewpoints. Future applications in the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals area are likely to remain within this art unit if they maintain similar technical claims.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DEKARSKE, MADELINE MCGUIRE | 1 | 0.0% | +0.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18693887 | AUTOTAXIN-INHIBITORS | DEKARSKE, MADELINE MCGUIRE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1622 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18693887 | AUTOTAXIN-INHIBITORS | DEKARSKE, MADELINE MCGUIRE | 1622 | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 20, 2024 |
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