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
Zeakal Inc. currently has 1 pending office action in the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. This 1 pending office action is being handled by 1 distinct examiner within 1 distinct art unit. The data indicates a narrow and specific focus for the company's current patent office interactions in this technical domain.
The busiest examiner for the portfolio is REDDEN, KAREN M, who is assigned the pending action. As the only distinct examiner with a pending case, REDDEN, KAREN M manages the active prosecution for Zeakal Inc. This alignment suggests a streamlined prosecution environment at this time. For practitioners, this means all current activity is confined to the 1 distinct art unit and the distinct examiner.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| REDDEN, KAREN M | 1 | 88.4% | -21.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18862834 | METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR MODIFYING SEED COMPOSITION | REDDEN, KAREN M | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1661 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18862834 | METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR MODIFYING SEED COMPOSITION | REDDEN, KAREN M | 1661 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 04, 2024 |
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