Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Vigeneron GmbH has 1 pending office action in the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, BLUMEL, BENJAMIN P. The prosecution is occurring within 1 distinct art unit, reflecting the technical specialization of the company's current pharmaceutical filing. This 1 to 1 relationship between the pending action and the art unit indicates a highly focused examination path.
BLUMEL, BENJAMIN P is the busiest examiner with 1 pending action. As there is only 1 pending office action total, this examiner's review is the sole factor in the company's current prosecution pipeline. The involvement of 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit for the 1 pending action suggests a highly focused examination process for this biotechnology matter. Practitioners should focus on the specific examination history of BLUMEL, BENJAMIN P to anticipate the trajectory of this matter.
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 |
|---|---|
| §112 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BLUMEL, BENJAMIN P | 1 | 70.8% | +30.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18739986 | AAV Vectors | BLUMEL, BENJAMIN P | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1671 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18739986 | AAV Vectors | BLUMEL, BENJAMIN P | 1671 | §112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 11, 2024 |
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