Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals
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 of Mississippi has 2 pending office actions in the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. These actions are distributed across 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. This indicates that the university's pending matters are being reviewed in separate administrative groups. The use of 2 distinct art units for 2 actions suggests that the subject matter of these applications is technically distinct within the biotechnology field.
PHAN, DOAN THI-THUC is the busiest examiner for the university, handling 1 pending office action. Because there are 2 distinct examiners for 2 pending actions, each matter is under the review of a different individual. This lack of overlap in both examiners and art units means that the university must manage separate prosecution tracks. For the practitioner, this requires tailoring arguments to the specific standards and preferences of 2 different examiners across 2 different technical divisions.
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 (50%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PHAN, DOAN THI-THUC | 1 | 42.7% | +47.7% |
| SAEED, KAMAL A | 1 | 83.9% | +9.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18559887 | METHODS FOR REDUCING INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE | SAEED, KAMAL A | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18775040 | CARBOXYLIC ACID-DERIVED KETO-DIESTERS AND USES THEREOF | PHAN, DOAN THI-THUC | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1613 | 1 |
| 1626 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18775040 | CARBOXYLIC ACID-DERIVED KETO-DIESTERS AND USES THEREOF | PHAN, DOAN THI-THUC | 1613 | §102§103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 17, 2024 |
| 18559887 | METHODS FOR REDUCING INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE | SAEED, KAMAL A | 1626 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 09, 2023 |
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