Prosecution Insights
Last updated: July 17, 2026

Biotech Beach Law Pc

5 pending office actions • 5 clients • 5 examiners • 4 art units • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 19 patents granted in the last 365 days

Quality Metrics (n=828 apps, methodology: how we score firms)

87.6%
Allowance Rate
n=828
+0.66σ
Allowance Rate (norm)
n=828
3.1
OAs to Allowance
n=545
-0.48σ
OAs to Allow (norm)
n=545
1074 days
Time to Allowance
n=545
+8.4pp
Interview Lift
n=828
23.8%
RCE Rate
n=828
0.9%
Appeal Rate
n=828

Rejection Performance (% of received rejections ultimately overcome)

§101 Overcome
n=7 (min 20)
89.9%
§102 Overcome
n=79
84.5%
§103 Overcome
n=329
94.1%
§112 Overcome
n=101

Specialization & Scale

A61L, A61F, A61K
Top CPC Subclasses
20%
Top-3 CPC Share
n=828
0
Practitioners
n=828
Apps / Practitioner
n=828 (min 20)

Portfolio Summary

5
Total Pending OAs
3
Non-Final OAs
2
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

3
Overdue
0
Due this week
0
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
0
Due later

Deadline Fire Line

Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (3)

Case Difficulty Mix

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.

0
Hard (0%)
3
Medium (60%)
0
Easy (0%)
2
Unknown (40%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only2 (40%)
§102 only1 (20%)
No statute on record2 (40%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

4
Life Sciences
80% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
0
Mechanical / Eng
0% of docket
1
Business / Other
20% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

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.

50 h
Manual time on pending OAs
10 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
18 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.4 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
SINGH, KAVEL 1 83.6% +13.9%
WESTERBERG, NISSA M 1 23.3% +36.8%
DAUNER, JOSEPH G 1 56.8% +35.4%
MCWILLIAMS, KELSEY LYNN 1 89.5% +9.1%
BRADLEY, CHRISTINA 1 62.8% +33.2%

Quick Wins (2)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18026101 METHODS FOR THE PRODUCTION OF GENOME EDITED PLANTS MCWILLIAMS, KELSEY LYNN 71d overdue
19110446 Conveyor Arrangement SINGH, KAVEL

Hard Cases (1)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18131841 PHARMACEUTICAL KITS AND THEIR USE FOR TREATING DRY EYE DISEASE WESTERBERG, NISSA M 5d overdue

Interview Candidates (4)

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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17827584 COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR TREATING NERVOUS SYSTEM INJURIES BRADLEY, CHRISTINA 103d overdue
18131841 PHARMACEUTICAL KITS AND THEIR USE FOR TREATING DRY EYE DISEASE WESTERBERG, NISSA M 5d overdue
19110446 Conveyor Arrangement SINGH, KAVEL
18026114 Method and Means for Generating Transcribed Nucleic Acids DAUNER, JOSEPH G

Client Portfolio (5 clients)

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
16181
16821
16631
16541

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19110446 Conveyor Arrangement Interroll Holding AG SINGH, KAVEL §102 Non-Final OA Pending Mar 11, 2025
18131841 PHARMACEUTICAL KITS AND THEIR USE FOR TREATING DRY EYE DISEASE Surface Ophthalmics, Inc. WESTERBERG, NISSA M 1618 Other Non-Final OA 5d overdue Pending Apr 06, 2023
18026114 Method and Means for Generating Transcribed Nucleic Acids Lexogen GmbH DAUNER, JOSEPH G 1682 §103 Final Rejection Pending Mar 13, 2023
18026101 METHODS FOR THE PRODUCTION OF GENOME EDITED PLANTS Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V. MCWILLIAMS, KELSEY LYNN 1663 §103 Non-Final OA 71d overdue Pending Mar 13, 2023
17827584 COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR TREATING NERVOUS SYSTEM INJURIES Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute BRADLEY, CHRISTINA 1654 Other Final Rejection 103d overdue Pending May 27, 2022

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