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 • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Yyz Pharmatech Inc. holds a company patent portfolio in the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. Currently, the portfolio includes 1 pending office action. This action is located within 1 distinct art unit, suggesting a narrow technical scope for the company's active patent applications. The focus on a single pending matter indicates a concentrated effort to protect a specific pharmaceutical or biotechnological development.
The prosecution is managed by 1 distinct examiner, POHNERT, STEVEN C. As the busiest examiner, POHNERT, STEVEN C is responsible for 1 pending office action. This examiner is the only one currently reviewing the company's pending intellectual property. With 1 pending office action assigned to 1 distinct examiner, the company's prosecution path is centralized, requiring a focused approach to address the specific requirements of this examiner. Practitioners should analyze the preferences of POHNERT, STEVEN C within the 1 distinct art unit to effectively advance the company's patent goals.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| POHNERT, STEVEN C | 1 | 12.4% | +18.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18033857 | MASS SPECTROMETRY-BASED METHODS AND KITS FOR NUCLEIC ACID DETECTION AND DISEASE DIAGNOSTIC | POHNERT, STEVEN C | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18033857 | MASS SPECTROMETRY-BASED METHODS AND KITS FOR NUCLEIC ACID DETECTION AND DISEASE DIAGNOSTIC | POHNERT, STEVEN C | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1683 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18033857 | MASS SPECTROMETRY-BASED METHODS AND KITS FOR NUCLEIC ACID DETECTION AND DISEASE DIAGNOSTIC | POHNERT, STEVEN C | 1683 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 26, 2023 |
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