Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
8 pending office actions • 8 clients • 8 examiners • 5 art units • 0 of 8 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 10 patents granted in the last 365 days
ASEM IP COUNSEL specializes in Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals, managing 139 career applications. The firm has a resolved allowance rate pct of 81.13. This rate demonstrates the firm's ability to navigate the complexities of biotech patent prosecution. The 81.13 percent allowance rate is a primary metric for evaluating the firm's historical performance in securing patent grants. Practitioners can use this percentage to understand the firm's track record across its career filings.
The firm has 6 pending office actions at this time. The average of 2.23 office actions per allowance provides a specific measure of the effort required to secure a patent grant. This 2.23 average helps in setting expectations for the number of interactions required to reach a final decision. With 139 applications in its history, the firm has a documented record of performance. The 6 pending office actions represent the current volume of active matters the firm is pursuing.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 | 2 (25%) |
| §112 only | 1 (12%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 5 (62%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| THEIS, MATTHEW T | 1 | 42.1% | +32.5% |
| KOCH, GEORGE R | 1 | 72.9% | +17.3% |
| OLIVER, BRADLEY S | 1 | 60.9% | +14.3% |
| NGUYEN, PHUONG T | 1 | 73.8% | +37.0% |
| KASSA, TIGABU | 1 | 36.7% | +27.9% |
| OGLES, MATTHEW ERIC | 1 | 50.0% | +57.0% |
| WESTERBERG, NISSA M | 1 | 23.4% | +37.1% |
| BARZYKIN, VICTOR V | 1 | 82.3% | +3.7% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18044197 | BIO-SIGNAL MEASUREMENT BAND | OGLES, MATTHEW ERIC | 105d overdue |
| 18073624 | FLUORESCENT COMPOUND FOR DETECTING BIOLOGICAL MATERIAL AND PREPARATION METHOD THEREOF | WESTERBERG, NISSA M | 13d |
| 19035956 | PARTIAL EASY-PEEL POUCH AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME | THEIS, MATTHEW T | — |
| 19015625 | DIE EJECTOR | KOCH, GEORGE R | — |
| 18847246 | OVERCAP WITH TUBE SHAPE FOR STICK-TYPE COSMETIC CONTAINER | OLIVER, BRADLEY S | — |
| 17983904 | COLOR IMAGE SENSOR AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF | BARZYKIN, VICTOR V | — |
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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18044197 | BIO-SIGNAL MEASUREMENT BAND | OGLES, MATTHEW ERIC | 105d overdue |
| 18073624 | FLUORESCENT COMPOUND FOR DETECTING BIOLOGICAL MATERIAL AND PREPARATION METHOD THEREOF | WESTERBERG, NISSA M | 13d |
| 19035956 | PARTIAL EASY-PEEL POUCH AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME | THEIS, MATTHEW T | — |
| 19015625 | DIE EJECTOR | KOCH, GEORGE R | — |
| 18847246 | OVERCAP WITH TUBE SHAPE FOR STICK-TYPE COSMETIC CONTAINER | OLIVER, BRADLEY S | — |
| 18427998 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING ELECTROSTATIC CHUCK | NGUYEN, PHUONG T | — |
| 18267459 | METHOD FOR PREPARING PHARMACEUTICAL FORMULATION OF TABLET CONTAINING TRIZOLOPYRAZINE DERIVATIVE AS AN ACTIVE INGREDIENT | KASSA, TIGABU | — |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| Myungji Pandp Co., Ltd. | 1 |
| Flc | 1 |
| Nf Beauty Group Korea Co., Ltd. | 1 |
| Samsung | 1 |
| ABION INC. | 1 |
| HHS | 1 |
| BIOACTS CORPORATION | 1 |
| Sensohub Co., Ltd. | 1 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3754 | 1 |
| 1619 | 1 |
| 3791 | 1 |
| 1618 | 1 |
| 2893 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19035956 | PARTIAL EASY-PEEL POUCH AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME | Myungji Pandp Co., Ltd. | THEIS, MATTHEW T | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 24, 2025 | |
| 19015625 | DIE EJECTOR | Flc | KOCH, GEORGE R | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 09, 2025 | |
| 18847246 | OVERCAP WITH TUBE SHAPE FOR STICK-TYPE COSMETIC CONTAINER | Nf Beauty Group Korea Co., Ltd. | OLIVER, BRADLEY S | 3754 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 14, 2024 |
| 18427998 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING ELECTROSTATIC CHUCK | Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. | NGUYEN, PHUONG T | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 31, 2024 | |
| 18267459 | METHOD FOR PREPARING PHARMACEUTICAL FORMULATION OF TABLET CONTAINING TRIZOLOPYRAZINE DERIVATIVE AS AN ACTIVE INGREDIENT | Abion Inc. | KASSA, TIGABU | 1619 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 15, 2023 |
| 18044197 | BIO-SIGNAL MEASUREMENT BAND | Hhs Co., Ltd. | OGLES, MATTHEW ERIC | 3791 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 105d overdue | Pending | Mar 06, 2023 |
| 18073624 | FLUORESCENT COMPOUND FOR DETECTING BIOLOGICAL MATERIAL AND PREPARATION METHOD THEREOF | BIOACTS CORPORATION | WESTERBERG, NISSA M | 1618 | §112Other | Final Rejection | 13d | Pending | Dec 02, 2022 |
| 17983904 | COLOR IMAGE SENSOR AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF | Sensohub Co., Ltd. | BARZYKIN, VICTOR V | 2893 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 09, 2022 |
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