Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Communications
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Viqi Inc. has a patent portfolio in the Communications technology area with 2 pending office actions. These actions are located in 2 distinct art units, which indicates that the company's active filings are being reviewed in different technical sections of the patent office. This distribution suggests a range of communication technologies under examination.
The prosecution involves 2 distinct examiners, with each examiner handling a portion of the workload. STREGE, JOHN B is the busiest examiner, currently managing 1 pending office action. This means the 2 pending office actions are split between the 2 distinct examiners involved in the portfolio.
For practitioners, the presence of 2 distinct art units and 2 distinct examiners requires a decentralized approach. Each filing must be prosecuted according to the specific standards of its respective art unit and examiner. The outcome of the 1 pending office action with STREGE, JOHN B will affect a portion of the current active portfolio. Success in these separate tracks requires managing the distinct expectations of 2 different examiners simultaneously.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| STREGE, JOHN B | 1 | 87.0% | +13.8% |
| FONSECA LOPEZ, FRANCINI ALVARENGA | 1 | 29.6% | +37.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18215158 | AUTO HIGH CONTENT SCREENING USING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE FOR DRUG COMPOUND DEVELOPMENT | STREGE, JOHN B | 86d |
| 17650067 | MACHINE LEARNING FOR EARLY DETECTION OF CELLULAR MORPHOLOGICAL CHANGES | FONSECA LOPEZ, FRANCINI ALVARENGA | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18215158 | AUTO HIGH CONTENT SCREENING USING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE FOR DRUG COMPOUND DEVELOPMENT | STREGE, JOHN B | 86d |
| 17650067 | MACHINE LEARNING FOR EARLY DETECTION OF CELLULAR MORPHOLOGICAL CHANGES | FONSECA LOPEZ, FRANCINI ALVARENGA | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2669 | 1 |
| 1685 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18215158 | AUTO HIGH CONTENT SCREENING USING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE FOR DRUG COMPOUND DEVELOPMENT | STREGE, JOHN B | 2669 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 86d | Pending | Jun 27, 2023 |
| 17650067 | MACHINE LEARNING FOR EARLY DETECTION OF CELLULAR MORPHOLOGICAL CHANGES | FONSECA LOPEZ, FRANCINI ALVARENGA | 1685 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 04, 2022 |
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