Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
The University of Idaho currently has 2 pending office actions within the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. These matters are distributed across 2 distinct art units, reflecting a variety of technical subjects in the university's active patent applications.
The prosecution is conducted by 2 distinct examiners. KENNETH R HORLICK is the busiest examiner, currently managing 1 pending office action. This means that the pending office actions are split evenly between the examiners.
The use of 2 distinct art units for the pending office actions indicates that the university's research is being examined by different specialized groups. Each examiner is responsible for a single pending office action, requiring the university to address the specific requirements of two different officials. This decentralized prosecution structure suggests that the university's intellectual property strategy is spread across multiple technical and administrative fronts.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (67%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHARIOUI, MOHAMED | 1 | 81.1% | +12.8% |
| HORLICK, KENNETH R | 1 | 78.9% | +15.3% |
| GRASER, JENNIFER E | 1 | 76.7% | +23.4% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18697707 | DETECTION OF BEHAVIOR ANOMALIES IN CONTROL SYSTEMS AND RELATED SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND DEVICES | CHARIOUI, MOHAMED | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18329816 | COLDWATER DISEASE VACCINE COMPRISING AN ATTENUATED FLAVOBACTERIUM PSYCHROPHILUM STRAIN | GRASER, JENNIFER E | 132d overdue |
| 18473769 | CARBON COATED MAGNETIC PARTICLES AND METHODS FOR MAKING AND USING | HORLICK, KENNETH R | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18329816 | COLDWATER DISEASE VACCINE COMPRISING AN ATTENUATED FLAVOBACTERIUM PSYCHROPHILUM STRAIN | GRASER, JENNIFER E | 132d overdue |
| 18697707 | DETECTION OF BEHAVIOR ANOMALIES IN CONTROL SYSTEMS AND RELATED SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND DEVICES | CHARIOUI, MOHAMED | — |
| 18473769 | CARBON COATED MAGNETIC PARTICLES AND METHODS FOR MAKING AND USING | HORLICK, KENNETH R | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1681 | 1 |
| 1645 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18697707 | DETECTION OF BEHAVIOR ANOMALIES IN CONTROL SYSTEMS AND RELATED SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND DEVICES | CHARIOUI, MOHAMED | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 01, 2024 |
| 18473769 | CARBON COATED MAGNETIC PARTICLES AND METHODS FOR MAKING AND USING | HORLICK, KENNETH R | 1681 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 25, 2023 |
| 18329816 | COLDWATER DISEASE VACCINE COMPRISING AN ATTENUATED FLAVOBACTERIUM PSYCHROPHILUM STRAIN | GRASER, JENNIFER E | 1645 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | 132d overdue | Pending | Jun 06, 2023 |
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