Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Volta Labs Inc. currently has 2 pending office actions in the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. These actions are distributed across 2 distinct examiners. Furthermore, the portfolio is active in 2 distinct art units, indicating that each pending action is being reviewed in a different organizational group. This distribution across 2 distinct art units suggests that the company's innovations cover multiple specialized sub-fields within biotechnology.
SALMON, KATHERINE D is the busiest examiner for the company, with 1 busiest examiner pending office action. This represents one of the 2 pending office actions. Because there are 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units, the prosecution of these actions is entirely decentralized across the office's structure. Practitioners should monitor the different art units to ensure that the prosecution of the 2 pending office actions remains consistent despite the lack of centralized oversight.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SALMON, KATHERINE D | 1 | 42.8% | +37.9% |
| PARISI, JESSICA DANIELLE | 1 | 75.8% | +32.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18462365 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DROPLET MANIPULATION | SALMON, KATHERINE D | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18061333 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DROPLET MANIPULATION | PARISI, JESSICA DANIELLE | 91d overdue |
| 18462365 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DROPLET MANIPULATION | SALMON, KATHERINE D | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1682 | 1 |
| 1684 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18462365 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DROPLET MANIPULATION | SALMON, KATHERINE D | 1682 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 06, 2023 |
| 18061333 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DROPLET MANIPULATION | PARISI, JESSICA DANIELLE | 1684 | §103 | Final Rejection | 91d overdue | Pending | Dec 02, 2022 |
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