Technology area: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Universtät Basel maintains a patent portfolio within the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. The data indicates 1 pending office action currently active. CHEN, STACY BROWN is the busiest examiner and is responsible for the pending office action.
The prosecution environment is centralized, involving 1 distinct examiner and a distinct art unit. Because CHEN, STACY BROWN manages the workload, the company's success in this matter depends on addressing the specific concerns of this examiner. This structure simplifies the management of the portfolio by focusing on a point of contact at the patent office.
The presence of a distinct art unit suggests that the pending application falls within a specific technical niche. Practitioners should focus on the examiner's previous rulings and preferences to navigate the prosecution process. Since there is a pending office action, the resolution of this case will be a primary driver of the portfolio's immediate growth and success.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHEN, STACY BROWN | 1 | 66.1% | +40.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18558885 | ARENAVIRUSES AS VECTORS | CHEN, STACY BROWN | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18558885 | ARENAVIRUSES AS VECTORS | CHEN, STACY BROWN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1672 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18558885 | ARENAVIRUSES AS VECTORS | CHEN, STACY BROWN | 1672 | §101§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 03, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialUniverstät Basel has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Stacy Brown Chen has the most, with 1 of Universtät Basel's pending office actions.
Mostly Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals (USPTO Tech Center 1600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
