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
UPSIDE FOODS, INC. has 4 pending office actions in the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. These matters are distributed across 3 distinct art units. The company works with 4 distinct examiners. The 3 distinct art units show that the 4 active filings are technically concentrated within a few specialized groups at the patent office.
JOSEPH PAUL MIANO is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending action. Because there are 4 pending office actions and 4 distinct examiners, each examiner is responsible for exactly one matter. This lack of examiner overlap means the company must manage 4 different relationships at the patent office. For a practitioner, the fact that 4 distinct examiners are involved across 3 distinct art units suggests that the company's 4 pending office actions are being reviewed by a diverse group of officials with varying perspectives.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MIANO, JOSEPH PAUL | 1 | 36.0% | +63.3% |
| PAULUS, ERIN VIRGINIA | 1 | 21.1% | +93.8% |
| MOLOYE, TITILAYO | 1 | 62.5% | +47.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18060322 | SUBSTRATES AND BIOREACTORS FOR PREPARING A COMESTIBLE MEAT PRODUCT | MOLOYE, TITILAYO | 33d |
| 18544063 | COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR EXTENDING THE REPLICATIVE CAPACITY OF BOVINE CELLS | PAULUS, ERIN VIRGINIA | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19300583 | HEAT SHOCK INDUCIBLE CELLS AND THEIR MANUFACTURE AND USE | MIANO, JOSEPH PAUL | 29d |
| 18060322 | SUBSTRATES AND BIOREACTORS FOR PREPARING A COMESTIBLE MEAT PRODUCT | MOLOYE, TITILAYO | 33d |
| 18544063 | COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR EXTENDING THE REPLICATIVE CAPACITY OF BOVINE CELLS | PAULUS, ERIN VIRGINIA | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1631 | 2 |
| 1632 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19300583 | HEAT SHOCK INDUCIBLE CELLS AND THEIR MANUFACTURE AND USE | MIANO, JOSEPH PAUL | 1631 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 29d | Pending | Aug 14, 2025 |
| 18544063 | COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR EXTENDING THE REPLICATIVE CAPACITY OF BOVINE CELLS | PAULUS, ERIN VIRGINIA | 1631 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 18, 2023 |
| 18060322 | SUBSTRATES AND BIOREACTORS FOR PREPARING A COMESTIBLE MEAT PRODUCT | MOLOYE, TITILAYO | 1632 | §102§103§112Other | Non-Final OA | 33d | Pending | Nov 30, 2022 |
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