Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days
Universitat de Barcelona maintains 3 pending office actions within the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. These actions are distributed among 3 distinct examiners, creating a set of examiner interactions that match the number of active matters. The portfolio spans 2 distinct art units, which implies that the university's research output in biotechnology is being evaluated across multiple specialized groups within the patent office. This distribution suggests that the university's intellectual property covers a range of pharmaceutical or biological applications that trigger different examination criteria.
Schyler S Sanks is the busiest examiner for the university, currently handling 1 pending office action. While Sanks is the primary contact, the fact that 3 distinct examiners are involved for only 3 pending actions shows that no single individual dominates the prosecution landscape for this institution. This distribution requires practitioners to adapt to the specific preferences of multiple examiners even when managing a limited number of Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals applications. Successfully navigating these matters will require a strategy that accounts for the unique perspectives of each examiner involved in the university's active cases.
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 + other | 1 (33%) |
| §103 only | 1 (33%) |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SANKS, SCHYLER S | 1 | 72.8% | +16.0% |
| ALLEN, MARIANNE P | 1 | 60.1% | +18.2% |
| HOLLM, JONATHAN ADAM | 1 | 50.4% | +53.3% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18458214 | Recombinant Fusion Proteins Targeting P-selectin, and Methods of Use Thereof for Treating Diseases and Disorders | ALLEN, MARIANNE P | 104d overdue |
| 18400709 | QUANTUM CONTROL | SANKS, SCHYLER S | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18458214 | Recombinant Fusion Proteins Targeting P-selectin, and Methods of Use Thereof for Treating Diseases and Disorders | ALLEN, MARIANNE P | 104d overdue |
| 18400709 | QUANTUM CONTROL | SANKS, SCHYLER S | — |
| 17619909 | PATCH FOR SEALING AN AMNIOTIC MEMBRANE AND SYSTEM FOR PLACING AN AMNIOTIC MEMBRANE | HOLLM, JONATHAN ADAM | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1647 | 1 |
| 3771 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18400709 | QUANTUM CONTROL | SANKS, SCHYLER S | — | §101§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 29, 2023 |
| 18458214 | Recombinant Fusion Proteins Targeting P-selectin, and Methods of Use Thereof for Treating Diseases and Disorders | ALLEN, MARIANNE P | 1647 | §102§103§112Other | Non-Final OA | 104d overdue | Pending | Aug 30, 2023 |
| 17619909 | PATCH FOR SEALING AN AMNIOTIC MEMBRANE AND SYSTEM FOR PLACING AN AMNIOTIC MEMBRANE | HOLLM, JONATHAN ADAM | 3771 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 16, 2021 |
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