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
The University of South Alabama is managing 1 pending office action within the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and is situated in 1 distinct art unit. WELLS, LAUREN QUINLAN is the busiest examiner, with 1 busiest examiner pending action. This 1 busiest examiner pending action represents the university's entire 1 pending office action count. The concentration in 1 distinct art unit indicates a specific area of biological or pharmaceutical research currently under USPTO review.
Because there is only 1 pending office action, the university's immediate patent strategy is concentrated on a single point of contact within the USPTO. This lack of diversification in examiners or art units means that the university's current patent prospects are tied to the evaluation of WELLS, LAUREN QUINLAN within that 1 distinct art unit. Practitioners should focus on the specific preferences and history of this 1 distinct examiner. The alignment of 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit suggests a narrow and specific focus in the university's current biotech filings.
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 |
|---|---|
| Double-patenting + other | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WELLS, LAUREN QUINLAN | 1 | 48.4% | +60.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18599048 | FUNCTIONALIZED MATERIALS AND COMPOUNDS | WELLS, LAUREN QUINLAN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1691 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18599048 | FUNCTIONALIZED MATERIALS AND COMPOUNDS | WELLS, LAUREN QUINLAN | 1691 | §102DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 07, 2024 |
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