Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals
15 pending office actions • 9 art units • 13 examiners • 0 of 15 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Xygenyx Inc. demonstrates a broad prosecution presence in the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. The company currently faces 14 pending office actions, which are distributed among 13 distinct examiners. This high number of examiners relative to the total actions suggests a wide engagement with various personnel at the USPTO. The portfolio's activity spans 9 distinct art units, indicating that the company's innovations cover a range of technical classifications within the life sciences.
BRADLEY, CHRISTINA is the busiest examiner for Xygenyx Inc., with 2 busiest examiner pending office actions under her review. While she is the most active, her 2 pending actions are a subset of the 14 total pending office actions. The fact that 13 distinct examiners are involved across 9 distinct art units highlights the complexity of managing this portfolio. Practitioners must be prepared for a variety of examination styles and technical requirements given the breadth of the current pending workload.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 10 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 10 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 | 3 (20%) |
| §103 only | 8 (53%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (7%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (20%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ALAM, AYAAN A | 2 | 38.4% | +35.6% |
| BRADLEY, CHRISTINA | 2 | 62.6% | +33.3% |
| NEAGU, IRINA | 1 | 46.8% | +57.3% |
| TIEN, LUCY MINYU | 1 | 59.3% | +39.2% |
| RAO, PADMAJA S | 1 | 70.7% | +36.8% |
| DEKARSKE, MADELINE MCGUIRE | 1 | 0.0% | +0.0% |
| LAZARO, DOMINIC | 1 | 63.6% | +31.5% |
| BENAVIDES, JENNIFER ANN | 1 | 51.2% | +47.0% |
| BUNNER, BRIDGET E | 1 | 64.5% | +19.9% |
| VARADARAJ, ARCHANA | 1 | 80.0% | +33.3% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18299620 | COMPOSITION AND METHODS OF TREATMENT USING TRANSDERMAL SUPPLEMENTATION | VARADARAJ, ARCHANA | 26d |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18116849 | COMPOSITION AND METHODS OF TREATMENT USING TRANSDERMAL HORMONE SUPPLEMENTATION | BRADLEY, CHRISTINA | 296d overdue |
| 18299480 | COMPOSITION AND METHODS OF TREATMENT USING SYNERGISTICALLY-ENHANCED SUPPLEMENTATION | BUNNER, BRIDGET E | 21d |
| 18299453 | COMPOSITION AND METHODS OF TREATMENT USING SYNERGISTICALLY-ENHANCED SUPPLEMENTATION | BENAVIDES, JENNIFER ANN | 26d |
| 18295181 | COMPOSITION AND METHODS OF TREATMENT USING TRANSDERMAL SUPPLEMENTATION | PARK, HAEJIN S | 34d |
| 18329491 | COMPOSITION AND METHODS OF TREATMENT USING SYNERGISTICALLY - ENHANCED SUPPLEMENTATION | RAO, PADMAJA S | 40d |
| 18329539 | COMPOSITION AND METHODS OF TREATMENT USING SYNERGISTICALLY - ENHANCED SUPPLEMENTATION | DEKARSKE, MADELINE MCGUIRE | — |
| 18118120 | COMPOSITION AND METHODS OF TREATMENT USING TRANSDERMAL HORMONE SUPPLEMENTATION | BRADLEY, CHRISTINA | — |
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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18116849 | COMPOSITION AND METHODS OF TREATMENT USING TRANSDERMAL HORMONE SUPPLEMENTATION | BRADLEY, CHRISTINA | 296d overdue |
| 18297841 | COMPOSITION AND METHODS OF TREATMENT USING TRANSDERMAL SUPPLEMENTATION | ALAM, AYAAN A | 14d |
| 18299480 | COMPOSITION AND METHODS OF TREATMENT USING SYNERGISTICALLY-ENHANCED SUPPLEMENTATION | BUNNER, BRIDGET E | 21d |
| 18299453 | COMPOSITION AND METHODS OF TREATMENT USING SYNERGISTICALLY-ENHANCED SUPPLEMENTATION | BENAVIDES, JENNIFER ANN | 26d |
| 18299620 | COMPOSITION AND METHODS OF TREATMENT USING TRANSDERMAL SUPPLEMENTATION | VARADARAJ, ARCHANA | 26d |
| 18329491 | COMPOSITION AND METHODS OF TREATMENT USING SYNERGISTICALLY - ENHANCED SUPPLEMENTATION | RAO, PADMAJA S | 40d |
| 18329496 | COMPOSITION AND METHODS OF TREATMENT USING SYNERGISTICALLY - ENHANCED SUPPLEMENTATION | TIEN, LUCY MINYU | 70d |
| 18299716 | COMPOSITION AND METHODS OF TREATMENT USING TRANSDERMAL SUPPLEMENTATION | LAZARO, DOMINIC | 84d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1611 | 4 |
| 1675 | 2 |
| 1614 | 2 |
| 1654 | 2 |
| 1629 | 1 |
| 1612 | 1 |
| 1627 | 1 |
| 1647 | 1 |
| 1658 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18338304 | COMPOSITION AND METHODS OF TREATMENT USING SYNERGISTICALLY - ENHANCED SUPPLEMENTATION | NEAGU, IRINA | 1629 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 20, 2023 |
| 18329496 | COMPOSITION AND METHODS OF TREATMENT USING SYNERGISTICALLY - ENHANCED SUPPLEMENTATION | TIEN, LUCY MINYU | 1612 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 70d | Pending | Jun 05, 2023 |
| 18329491 | COMPOSITION AND METHODS OF TREATMENT USING SYNERGISTICALLY - ENHANCED SUPPLEMENTATION | RAO, PADMAJA S | 1627 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | 40d | Pending | Jun 05, 2023 |
| 18329539 | COMPOSITION AND METHODS OF TREATMENT USING SYNERGISTICALLY - ENHANCED SUPPLEMENTATION | DEKARSKE, MADELINE MCGUIRE | 1675 | §103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 05, 2023 |
| 18299716 | COMPOSITION AND METHODS OF TREATMENT USING TRANSDERMAL SUPPLEMENTATION | LAZARO, DOMINIC | 1611 | §103 | Final Rejection | 84d | Pending | Apr 13, 2023 |
| 18299453 | COMPOSITION AND METHODS OF TREATMENT USING SYNERGISTICALLY-ENHANCED SUPPLEMENTATION | BENAVIDES, JENNIFER ANN | 1675 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 26d | Pending | Apr 12, 2023 |
| 18299480 | COMPOSITION AND METHODS OF TREATMENT USING SYNERGISTICALLY-ENHANCED SUPPLEMENTATION | BUNNER, BRIDGET E | 1647 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 21d | Pending | Apr 12, 2023 |
| 18299620 | COMPOSITION AND METHODS OF TREATMENT USING TRANSDERMAL SUPPLEMENTATION | VARADARAJ, ARCHANA | 1658 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 26d | Pending | Apr 12, 2023 |
| 18299484 | COMPOSITION AND METHODS OF TREATMENT USING SYNERGISTICALLY-ENHANCED SUPPLEMENTATION | ALAM, AYAAN A | 1611 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 12, 2023 |
| 18297841 | COMPOSITION AND METHODS OF TREATMENT USING TRANSDERMAL SUPPLEMENTATION | ALAM, AYAAN A | 1611 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 14d | Pending | Apr 10, 2023 |
| 18297535 | COMPOSITION AND METHODS OF TREATMENT USING TRANSDERMAL SUPPLEMENTATION | KETCHAM, KAREN A | 1614 | §103 | Final Rejection | 70d | Pending | Apr 07, 2023 |
| 18295181 | COMPOSITION AND METHODS OF TREATMENT USING TRANSDERMAL SUPPLEMENTATION | PARK, HAEJIN S | 1614 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 34d | Pending | Apr 03, 2023 |
| 18295188 | COMPOSITION AND METHODS OF TREATMENT USING TRANSDERMAL SUPPLEMENTATION | GHALI, ISIS A D | 1611 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 03, 2023 |
| 18118120 | COMPOSITION AND METHODS OF TREATMENT USING TRANSDERMAL HORMONE SUPPLEMENTATION | BRADLEY, CHRISTINA | 1654 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 06, 2023 |
| 18116849 | COMPOSITION AND METHODS OF TREATMENT USING TRANSDERMAL HORMONE SUPPLEMENTATION | BRADLEY, CHRISTINA | 1654 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 296d overdue | Pending | Mar 03, 2023 |
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