Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
University of North Texas Health Science Center is currently navigating 1 pending office action in the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. This activity is localized to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, pointing to a specific technical focus for the current portfolio. Such a concentrated presence suggests that the university's immediate intellectual property interests are being evaluated within a single specialized framework. The focus on 1 art unit indicates that the technology is being compared against a narrow field of prior art.
The busiest examiner, RIGA, MICHAEL ANGELO, is responsible for 1 pending office action. This single examiner manages the full extent of the current pending matters. Consequently, the prosecution strategy is tied specifically to the precedents and preferences of this individual. The presence of only 1 art unit further confirms that the current legal challenges are limited to a specific area of biotechnology. For the practitioner, this means that the relationship with RIGA, MICHAEL ANGELO is the primary factor in the advancement of the current portfolio. There is no distribution of risk or workload across other examiners, making this a highly centralized prosecution effort for the 1 pending office action.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| RIGA, MICHAEL ANGELO | 1 | 57.1% | +61.2% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17309030 | PROCESS FOR ENGINEERING TARGETED NANOPARTICLES | RIGA, MICHAEL ANGELO | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17309030 | PROCESS FOR ENGINEERING TARGETED NANOPARTICLES | RIGA, MICHAEL ANGELO | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1634 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17309030 | PROCESS FOR ENGINEERING TARGETED NANOPARTICLES | RIGA, MICHAEL ANGELO | 1634 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 15, 2021 |
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