Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Chemistry & Materials
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
The UNIVERSITY COURT OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS currently has 2 pending office actions within the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. These actions are spread across 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. This level of distribution indicates that the university's research is being categorized into different specialized niches at the patent office, rather than being confined to a single group.
The busiest examiner, SALMON, KATHERINE D, holds 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Since there are 2 pending office actions in total and 2 distinct examiners, the workload is balanced across the portfolio. The use of 2 distinct art units suggests that the university is navigating different sets of examination priorities or technical standards. For a practitioner, this variety means that the prosecution strategy must be adaptable to the different styles of 2 distinct examiners. The portfolio shows more structural diversity than those limited to a single art unit, even with a small number of active cases.
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 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SALMON, KATHERINE D | 1 | 42.8% | +37.9% |
| QIAO, HUIHONG | 1 | 71.2% | +25.0% |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18287325 | CAS10-BASED ASSAY FOR NUCLEIC ACID DETECTION | SALMON, KATHERINE D | — |
| 18547264 | Process for Preparing a Polyurea | QIAO, HUIHONG | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1682 | 1 |
| 1763 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18287325 | CAS10-BASED ASSAY FOR NUCLEIC ACID DETECTION | SALMON, KATHERINE D | 1682 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 18, 2023 |
| 18547264 | Process for Preparing a Polyurea | QIAO, HUIHONG | 1763 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 21, 2023 |
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