Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
6 pending office actions • 5 clients • 6 examiners • 6 art units • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Fitzpatrick PC operates in the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area, where it has managed 209 career applications. The firm has achieved a resolved allowance rate of 65.22 percent for these matters. Currently, the firm is responsible for 6 pending office actions, indicating its docket in the life sciences.
The firm's average of 3.51 office actions per allowance reflects the number of responses typically required to resolve examiner rejections. This average, alongside the 65.22 percent resolved allowance rate, characterizes the firm's historical prosecution results. With 209 career applications, the firm has established a specific presence in biotechnology patent law.
Managing 6 pending office actions allows for dedicated attention to the specific technical issues raised by examiners. This historical performance provides a baseline for expected outcomes in this technical field. The firm's 3.51 office actions per allowance metric indicates the level of engagement required to secure grants. Practitioners can rely on these data points when planning long-term prosecution strategies.
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.
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.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 2 (33%) |
| §103 only | 2 (33%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (17%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (17%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KIDWELL, MICHELE M | 1 | 63.9% | +18.8% |
| OLSON, ANDREA STEFFEL | 1 | 62.3% | -11.9% |
| BROWN, SETH RICHARD | 1 | 48.9% | +44.3% |
| RAGHU, GANAPATHIRAM | 1 | 73.6% | +26.4% |
| SEIFU, LESSANEWORK T | 1 | 79.2% | +0.9% |
| SANGHERA, STEVEN G.S. | 1 | 30.8% | +30.4% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17707892 | DYNAMIC ADMINISTRATIVE SYSTEM FOR HEALTHCARE AND TELEHEALTH MANAGEMENT | SANGHERA, STEVEN G.S. | 323d overdue |
| 18274138 | SYSTEM AND METHOD TO CREATE A WATER-SOLUBLE MIXTURE OF OLIGOSACCHARIDES FOR FACILE CONVERSION TO FERMENTABLE SUGARS | RAGHU, GANAPATHIRAM | 62d |
| 18290711 | SYSTEM AND METHOD TO CONVERT CELLULOSIC MATERIALS INTO SUGAR | OLSON, ANDREA STEFFEL | — |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17707892 | DYNAMIC ADMINISTRATIVE SYSTEM FOR HEALTHCARE AND TELEHEALTH MANAGEMENT | SANGHERA, STEVEN G.S. | 323d overdue |
| 18555721 | INVOLUNTARY MOVEMENT DAMPENING DEVICE | BROWN, SETH RICHARD | 12d |
| 18274138 | SYSTEM AND METHOD TO CREATE A WATER-SOLUBLE MIXTURE OF OLIGOSACCHARIDES FOR FACILE CONVERSION TO FERMENTABLE SUGARS | RAGHU, GANAPATHIRAM | 62d |
| 18673643 | SOLID-STATE FILM DISPENSER AND DELIVERY DEVICE THEREFORE | KIDWELL, MICHELE M | — |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| Alliance Bioenergy Plus Inc. dba Blue Biofuels | 2 |
| Clean Saint LLC | 1 |
| Children's Hospital of Orange County | 1 |
| BLUE BIOFUELS, INC. | 1 |
| Indigenous Health LLC | 1 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3781 | 1 |
| 1693 | 1 |
| 3786 | 1 |
| 1652 | 1 |
| 1774 | 1 |
| 3684 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18673643 | SOLID-STATE FILM DISPENSER AND DELIVERY DEVICE THEREFORE | Clean Saint LLC | KIDWELL, MICHELE M | 3781 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 24, 2024 |
| 18290711 | SYSTEM AND METHOD TO CONVERT CELLULOSIC MATERIALS INTO SUGAR | Alliance Bioenergy Plus Inc. | OLSON, ANDREA STEFFEL | 1693 | §101§103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 19, 2024 |
| 18555721 | INVOLUNTARY MOVEMENT DAMPENING DEVICE | Children'S Hospital Of Orange County | BROWN, SETH RICHARD | 3786 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 12d | Pending | Oct 16, 2023 |
| 18274138 | SYSTEM AND METHOD TO CREATE A WATER-SOLUBLE MIXTURE OF OLIGOSACCHARIDES FOR FACILE CONVERSION TO FERMENTABLE SUGARS | BLUE BIOFUELS, INC. | RAGHU, GANAPATHIRAM | 1652 | §103§112Other | Final Rejection | 62d | Pending | Jul 25, 2023 |
| 18226224 | SYSTEM TO CONVERT CELLULOSIC MATERIALS INTO SUGAR AND METHOD OF USING THE SAME | Alliance Bioenergy Plus Inc. | SEIFU, LESSANEWORK T | 1774 | §103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 25, 2023 |
| 17707892 | DYNAMIC ADMINISTRATIVE SYSTEM FOR HEALTHCARE AND TELEHEALTH MANAGEMENT | Indigenous Health LLC | SANGHERA, STEVEN G.S. | 3684 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 323d overdue | Pending | Mar 29, 2022 |
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