Technology area: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Viance LLC currently has 1 pending office action in the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. This active case is being reviewed by 1 distinct examiner within 1 distinct art unit. This streamlined prosecution profile indicates that the company's current patent efforts are focused on a single technical filing.
BAUER, BRIANNA LEE is the busiest examiner for this entity, currently overseeing 1 busiest examiner pending action. Since she is the sole examiner for the portfolio, the outcome of the current prosecution depends on a successful dialogue with her. The 1 distinct art unit involved suggests that the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals claims are being evaluated within a specific administrative group.
With 1 pending office action to manage, the applicant can focus on the specific procedural and technical requirements of a single examiner. There are no other pending matters to distract from this individual case. This active filing reflects a period of focused activity within the company's intellectual property strategy.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BAUER, BRIANNA LEE | 1 | 66.7% | +0.0% |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1623 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18712798 | WOOD TREATMENT COMPOSITION, METHODS OF USE, AND TREATED WOOD | BAUER, BRIANNA LEE | 1623 | §102§103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 23, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialViance LLC has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Brianna Lee Bauer has the most, with 1 of Viance LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals (USPTO Tech Center 1600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
