Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
5 pending office actions • 4 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 8 patents granted in the last 365 days
Velico Medical Inc. is managing 5 pending office actions in the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. These actions are spread across 5 distinct examiners, meaning each case has a unique reviewer. The workload is also distributed across 4 distinct art units, indicating that the company's biological innovations cover several different specialized classifications.
LAU, JASON is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently handling 1 pending office action. This is one of the 5 pending office actions for the company. With 5 distinct examiners and 4 distinct art units, the applicant must manage a variety of examiner preferences and art unit guidelines.
This distribution suggests a diverse range of technical challenges within the biotechnology sector. The presence of multiple distinct examiners ensures that each application receives an independent review. Strategy must be tailored to the specific requirements of 4 distinct art units to ensure broad protection across the entire portfolio. This approach allows for a more granular defense of the company's intellectual property. The applicant can focus on building a consistent body of evidence that satisfies the specific requirements of each administrative group.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 | 2 (40%) |
| §102 only | 1 (20%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (20%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (20%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LAU, JASON | 1 | 53.7% | +15.6% |
| KOSAR, AARON J | 1 | 71.2% | +29.9% |
| VIJAYARAGHAVAN, JAGAMYA NMN | 1 | 62.5% | +49.3% |
| PILCHER, JONATHAN L | 1 | 64.3% | +44.0% |
| MARTIN, PAUL C | 1 | 41.8% | +21.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18467089 | Blood Plasma Product | VIJAYARAGHAVAN, JAGAMYA NMN | 26d |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18791873 | Alignment of A Disposable For A Spray Drying Plasma System | LAU, JASON | 43d overdue |
| 17945126 | Pretreatment Of Plasma For Spray Drying And Storage | MARTIN, PAUL C | 32d overdue |
| 18467074 | Pretreatment Of Plasma For Spray Drying And Storage | PILCHER, JONATHAN L | 16d |
| 18467089 | Blood Plasma Product | VIJAYARAGHAVAN, JAGAMYA NMN | 26d |
| 18745283 | Formulations And Methods For Contemporaneous Stabilization Of Active Proteins During Spray Drying And Storage | KOSAR, AARON J | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3762 | 1 |
| 1633 | 1 |
| 1772 | 1 |
| 1653 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18791873 | Alignment of A Disposable For A Spray Drying Plasma System | LAU, JASON | 3762 | §102Other | Final Rejection | 43d overdue | Pending | Aug 01, 2024 |
| 18745283 | Formulations And Methods For Contemporaneous Stabilization Of Active Proteins During Spray Drying And Storage | KOSAR, AARON J | — | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 17, 2024 |
| 18467089 | Blood Plasma Product | VIJAYARAGHAVAN, JAGAMYA NMN | 1633 | §103§112Other | Final Rejection | 26d | Pending | Sep 14, 2023 |
| 18467074 | Pretreatment Of Plasma For Spray Drying And Storage | PILCHER, JONATHAN L | 1772 | §103 | Final Rejection | 16d | Pending | Sep 14, 2023 |
| 17945126 | Pretreatment Of Plasma For Spray Drying And Storage | MARTIN, PAUL C | 1653 | §103 | Final Rejection | 32d overdue | Pending | Sep 15, 2022 |
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