Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
UNIVERSITE DE MONTPELLIER has 2 pending office actions in the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. These 2 pending office actions are distributed among 2 distinct examiners. However, both examiners are situated within 1 distinct art unit, indicating a shared administrative and technical oversight for the university's active applications. This arrangement suggests that while the individual reviewers differ, the overarching technical standards and supervisory environment remain consistent within the 1 distinct art unit.
LIU, CHU CHUAN is the busiest examiner, currently responsible for 1 pending office action. Since the 2 distinct examiners each handle 1 matter, the workload is divided between them. The concentration within a single art unit may lead to consistent application of legal standards despite the involvement of different individual examiners. Applicants should monitor for any shared trends or common rejections that might emerge from this group across both pending matters.
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 | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LIU, CHU CHUAN | 1 | 71.2% | +14.8% |
| KENNEDY, SARAH JANE | 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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18481306 | METHODS FOR SCREENING A SUBJECT FOR A CANCER | KENNEDY, SARAH JANE | 4d overdue |
| 18843732 | METHOD FOR DETERMINING A PARAMETER OF THE RESPONSE OF AN AUDITORY NERVE OF A SUBJECT AND ASSOCIATED METHODS AND DEVICES | LIU, CHU CHUAN | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18843732 | METHOD FOR DETERMINING A PARAMETER OF THE RESPONSE OF AN AUDITORY NERVE OF A SUBJECT AND ASSOCIATED METHODS AND DEVICES | LIU, CHU CHUAN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1682 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18843732 | METHOD FOR DETERMINING A PARAMETER OF THE RESPONSE OF AN AUDITORY NERVE OF A SUBJECT AND ASSOCIATED METHODS AND DEVICES | LIU, CHU CHUAN | — | §101§102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 04, 2024 |
| 18481306 | METHODS FOR SCREENING A SUBJECT FOR A CANCER | KENNEDY, SARAH JANE | 1682 | §101§103Other | Non-Final OA | 4d overdue | Pending | Oct 05, 2023 |
IP Author helps IP teams respond to office actions faster with AI-generated responses, examiner analytics, and prosecution intelligence.
Start Free Trial