Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Zbiotics Company is managing 1 pending office action within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. The prosecution of this portfolio is currently limited to these specific administrative assignments at the patent office. Practitioners should note that the company's current patenting activity is focused within a specific technical review path.
The busiest examiner for the company is PRAKASH, SUBBALAKSHMI, who is managing 1 busiest examiner pending action. This count is equal to the total 1 pending office action for the company. Because the company is only interacting with 1 distinct art unit, the prosecution process is subject to the specific examination culture of that unit. The 1 distinct examiner, Subbalakshmi Prakash, holds the responsibility for the company's pending Chemistry & Materials filings. This concentration in the art unit means there are no other active matters to provide comparative prosecution data.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PRAKASH, SUBBALAKSHMI | 1 | 45.7% | +36.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18202182 | METHODS AND COMPOSITION FOR TREATING METABOLIC SYNDROME | PRAKASH, SUBBALAKSHMI | 28d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1793 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18202182 | METHODS AND COMPOSITION FOR TREATING METABOLIC SYNDROME | PRAKASH, SUBBALAKSHMI | 1793 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 28d | Pending | May 25, 2023 |
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