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
Whispergenics Inc. manages a company patent portfolio in the Biotechnology and Pharmaceuticals technology area. The portfolio currently has 1 pending office action, which is being reviewed by 1 distinct examiner. This single action is situated within 1 distinct art unit, indicating a highly focused and concentrated prosecution environment for the company's current filings.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is GALSTER, SAMUEL LEONARD, who is currently handling 1 pending office action. Because the busiest examiner pending count is 1, this individual is responsible for the entirety of the portfolio's active prosecution. For a practitioner, this means that the outcome of the current matter depends entirely on the specific requirements and tendencies of GALSTER, SAMUEL LEONARD.
The presence of 1 distinct art unit and 1 distinct examiner suggests a straightforward prosecution path without the need to coordinate across different administrative groups. Strategy should be tailored specifically to the standards of the identified art unit. Successfully resolving the 1 pending office action will require a clear understanding of the examiner's perspective on the company's technology.
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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GALSTER, SAMUEL LEONARD | 1 | 50.9% | +43.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18693693 | Triple Drug Combination (Metformin, Simvastatin, Digoxin) for Targeted Treatment of Colorectal Cancer | GALSTER, SAMUEL LEONARD | 63d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1693 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18693693 | Triple Drug Combination (Metformin, Simvastatin, Digoxin) for Targeted Treatment of Colorectal Cancer | GALSTER, SAMUEL LEONARD | 1693 | §103DP | Non-Final OA | 63d | Pending | Mar 20, 2024 |
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