Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals
4 pending office actions • 2 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
VERDESIAN LIFE SCIENCES U.S., LLC is currently managing 3 pending office actions. These actions are situated within the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. The prosecution workload is spread across 3 distinct examiners, yet all these matters are contained within 1 distinct art unit.
The busiest examiner for the company is CONIGLIO, AUDREA JUNE BUCKLEY, who is assigned 1 pending office action. Given that there are 3 pending office actions and 3 distinct examiners, each examiner is currently handling exactly 1 matter. This indicates a diverse set of perspectives within a single specialized art unit.
The concentration of active matters in the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals area within 1 distinct art unit suggests a deep but narrow technical focus. Practitioners must manage multiple examiner relationships simultaneously to advance the portfolio, with CONIGLIO, AUDREA JUNE BUCKLEY being one of the primary points of contact. This distribution requires a coordinated approach to ensure consistent arguments are made across all pending office actions.
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) | 4 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HOLT, ANDRIAE M | 1 | 49.3% | +22.9% |
| CONIGLIO, AUDREA JUNE BUCKLEY | 1 | 52.9% | +21.1% |
| FAY, ZOHREH ALEMZADEH | 1 | 52.2% | -6.2% |
| LANGEL, WAYNE A | 1 | 78.4% | +23.2% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18918833 | MYCORRIHIZAL COMPOSITIONS AND RELATED METHODS OF MANUFACTURE AND USE | HOLT, ANDRIAE M | — |
| 18691166 | PYROGLUTAMIC ACID AS AN HERBICIDE SAFENER AND METHODS OF USE THEREOF | CONIGLIO, AUDREA JUNE BUCKLEY | — |
| 18690931 | CORROSION INHIBITORS FOR NITROGEN INHIBITOR FORMULATION | FAY, ZOHREH ALEMZADEH | — |
| 18690368 | CORROSION INHIBITORS FOR NITRAPYRIN CONTAINING AGRICULTURAL FORMULATIONS | LANGEL, WAYNE A | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18918833 | MYCORRIHIZAL COMPOSITIONS AND RELATED METHODS OF MANUFACTURE AND USE | HOLT, ANDRIAE M | — |
| 18691166 | PYROGLUTAMIC ACID AS AN HERBICIDE SAFENER AND METHODS OF USE THEREOF | CONIGLIO, AUDREA JUNE BUCKLEY | — |
| 18690368 | CORROSION INHIBITORS FOR NITRAPYRIN CONTAINING AGRICULTURAL FORMULATIONS | LANGEL, WAYNE A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1617 | 2 |
| 1614 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18918833 | MYCORRIHIZAL COMPOSITIONS AND RELATED METHODS OF MANUFACTURE AND USE | HOLT, ANDRIAE M | 1614 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 17, 2024 |
| 18691166 | PYROGLUTAMIC ACID AS AN HERBICIDE SAFENER AND METHODS OF USE THEREOF | CONIGLIO, AUDREA JUNE BUCKLEY | 1617 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 12, 2024 |
| 18690931 | CORROSION INHIBITORS FOR NITROGEN INHIBITOR FORMULATION | FAY, ZOHREH ALEMZADEH | 1617 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 11, 2024 |
| 18690368 | CORROSION INHIBITORS FOR NITRAPYRIN CONTAINING AGRICULTURAL FORMULATIONS | LANGEL, WAYNE A | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 08, 2024 |
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