Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
4 pending office actions • 4 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA maintains a presence in the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area with 3 pending office actions. The prosecution of these applications is handled by 3 distinct examiners, ensuring that each pending matter is under the review of a different official. Furthermore, these applications are situated within 3 distinct art units, indicating a range of biological or pharmaceutical research topics being patented.
HAMMELL, NEIL P is the busiest examiner for the university, with 1 busiest examiner pending office action. This represents 1 of the 3 total pending office actions currently active. Because the 3 distinct examiners are spread across 3 distinct art units, the university's legal representatives must manage 3 separate prosecution tracks. This lack of examiner or art unit overlap suggests that the current portfolio covers distinct technological niches within the life sciences.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (25%) |
| §103 only | 1 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HAMMELL, NEIL P | 1 | 34.6% | +43.0% |
| ANGELL, JON E | 1 | 71.0% | +21.1% |
| MERRIAM, AARON ROGERS | 1 | 31.6% | +63.1% |
| VIJAYARAGHAVAN, JAGAMYA NMN | 1 | 62.5% | +49.3% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18012867 | ARTIFICIAL RNAS FOR MODULATING RNA FRAGMENTS | ANGELL, JON E | 49d overdue |
| 17617252 | TARGETED GENE EDITING CONSTRUCTS AND METHODS OF USING THE SAME | VIJAYARAGHAVAN, JAGAMYA NMN | 8d overdue |
| 18258028 | THERAPEUTIC LAMA2 PAYLOAD FOR TREATMENT OF CONGENITAL MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY | HAMMELL, NEIL P | — |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18012867 | ARTIFICIAL RNAS FOR MODULATING RNA FRAGMENTS | ANGELL, JON E | 49d overdue |
| 17617252 | TARGETED GENE EDITING CONSTRUCTS AND METHODS OF USING THE SAME | VIJAYARAGHAVAN, JAGAMYA NMN | 8d overdue |
| 18258028 | THERAPEUTIC LAMA2 PAYLOAD FOR TREATMENT OF CONGENITAL MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY | HAMMELL, NEIL P | — |
| 17640568 | IMPLANTABLE ELECTRONIC SENSING SYSTEM FOR MEASURING AND MONITORING MEDICAL PARAMETERS | MERRIAM, AARON ROGERS | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1635 | 1 |
| 1637 | 1 |
| 3791 | 1 |
| 1633 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18258028 | THERAPEUTIC LAMA2 PAYLOAD FOR TREATMENT OF CONGENITAL MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY | HAMMELL, NEIL P | 1635 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 16, 2023 |
| 18012867 | ARTIFICIAL RNAS FOR MODULATING RNA FRAGMENTS | ANGELL, JON E | 1637 | §101§112 | Final Rejection | 49d overdue | Pending | Dec 23, 2022 |
| 17640568 | IMPLANTABLE ELECTRONIC SENSING SYSTEM FOR MEASURING AND MONITORING MEDICAL PARAMETERS | MERRIAM, AARON ROGERS | 3791 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 04, 2022 |
| 17617252 | TARGETED GENE EDITING CONSTRUCTS AND METHODS OF USING THE SAME | VIJAYARAGHAVAN, JAGAMYA NMN | 1633 | §103§112Other | Non-Final OA | 8d overdue | Pending | Dec 07, 2021 |
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