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
Zhaoke (Guangzhou) Ophthalmology Pharmaceutical Limited has 1 pending office action in the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. This matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and a distinct art unit. The focused nature of this prosecution suggests a specific pharmaceutical application is currently under review. This concentration allows the company to dedicate its resources to a single point of interaction with the patent office.
Jones-Foster, Erica Nicole is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, overseeing the pending office action. Because there is only the mentioned pending action in total, this examiner is responsible for the company's entire active office action workload. This concentration allows for a targeted strategy focused on the preferences of a single examiner and art unit. Practitioners should evaluate the examiner's historical allowance rates and common rejections within this specific art unit.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| JONES-FOSTER, ERICA NICOLE | 1 | 49.4% | +44.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18591010 | METHOD FOR THE ANALYSIS OF RELATED SUBSTANCES IN GERMINAL PEPTIDE PREPARATION | JONES-FOSTER, ERICA NICOLE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1656 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18591010 | METHOD FOR THE ANALYSIS OF RELATED SUBSTANCES IN GERMINAL PEPTIDE PREPARATION | JONES-FOSTER, ERICA NICOLE | 1656 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 29, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialZhaoke (Guangzhou) Ophthalmology Pharmaceutical Limited has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Erica Nicole Jones-Foster has the most, with 1 of Zhaoke (Guangzhou) Ophthalmology Pharmaceutical Limited's pending office actions.
Mostly Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals (USPTO Tech Center 1600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
