Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals
3 pending office actions • 1 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Xiangtan University has 3 pending office actions in the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. These 3 actions are assigned to 3 distinct examiners, but they are all located within 1 distinct art unit. This indicates that while different individuals are reviewing the applications, they are all operating under the same technical and administrative leadership within that single unit. This structure suggests a high level of technical focus for the university's current biotechnology portfolio.
SHERMAN, STEPHEN G is the busiest examiner for the university, holding the 1 busiest examiner pending action. The concentration of the 3 pending office actions in 1 distinct art unit suggests that the university's biotechnology research is being evaluated against a consistent set of internal standards. This allows the applicant to monitor how the art unit handles similar pharmaceutical or biological claims across the 3 distinct examiners involved. Practitioners can leverage this centralized oversight to identify potential trends in the unit's approach to prior art and claim construction. By addressing the feedback from multiple examiners within the same unit, the university can develop a unified prosecution strategy that accounts for the shared technical expertise of the administrative group overseeing all pending matters.
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 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (67%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SHERMAN, STEPHEN G | 1 | 82.2% | +16.8% |
| BONAPARTE, AMY C | 1 | 79.3% | +23.2% |
| MIRABITO, MICHAEL PAUL | 1 | 37.8% | +6.3% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18450343 | Method for producing adipic acid and cyclohexanone oxime from cyclohexane | BONAPARTE, AMY C | 34d |
| 19009930 | IMAGE RECOGNITION METHOD AND SYSTEM BASED ON MULTI-POPULATION ALTERNATE EVOLUTION NEURAL ARCHITECTURE SEARCH | SHERMAN, STEPHEN G | — |
| 18309186 | INTELLIGENT MODULARIZED RECONSTRUCTION SYSTEM FOR SPACECRAFT BASED ON TASK TEXT ANALYSIS | MIRABITO, MICHAEL PAUL | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18450343 | Method for producing adipic acid and cyclohexanone oxime from cyclohexane | BONAPARTE, AMY C | 34d |
| 19009930 | IMAGE RECOGNITION METHOD AND SYSTEM BASED ON MULTI-POPULATION ALTERNATE EVOLUTION NEURAL ARCHITECTURE SEARCH | SHERMAN, STEPHEN G | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1692 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19009930 | IMAGE RECOGNITION METHOD AND SYSTEM BASED ON MULTI-POPULATION ALTERNATE EVOLUTION NEURAL ARCHITECTURE SEARCH | SHERMAN, STEPHEN G | — | §101§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 04, 2025 |
| 18450343 | Method for producing adipic acid and cyclohexanone oxime from cyclohexane | BONAPARTE, AMY C | 1692 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 34d | Pending | Aug 15, 2023 |
| 18309186 | INTELLIGENT MODULARIZED RECONSTRUCTION SYSTEM FOR SPACECRAFT BASED ON TASK TEXT ANALYSIS | MIRABITO, MICHAEL PAUL | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 28, 2023 |
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