Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Chemistry & Materials
9 pending office actions • 4 clients • 5 examiners • 5 art units • 0 of 9 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 7 patents granted in the last 365 days
Foundation Law Group has 253 career applications in the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. The firm has a resolved allowance rate pct of 79.89, showing a respectable success rate. Their avg office actions per allowance is 4.48, which suggests a very persistent approach to overcoming examiner rejections. Currently, there are 9 pending office actions.
The 4.48 avg office actions per allowance is a critical metric for practitioners anticipating the timeline to reach the 79.89 resolved allowance rate pct. The 253 career applications provide a focused data set for their work in Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals. With 9 pending office actions, the firm is actively engaged in ongoing prosecution. This profile highlights a firm that is prepared for extensive examiner interaction to secure allowances in the biotech sector.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 only | 1 (11%) |
| §101 + other | 3 (33%) |
| §103 only | 1 (11%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 2 (22%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (22%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HOWELL, THEODORE R | 5 | 66.8% | +25.3% |
| KUMAR, SRILAKSHMI K | 1 | 49.7% | +15.5% |
| BOWERS, NATHAN ANDREW | 1 | 59.4% | +31.9% |
| CLARY, KAYLA ELAINE | 1 | 66.7% | +25.0% |
| ABOUZAHRA, REHAM K | 1 | 10.5% | +8.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17745763 | COMPOSITE SOLID ELECTROLYTE | CLARY, KAYLA ELAINE | 91d overdue |
| 18530198 | TERPENE-BASED COMPOSITIONS, PROCESSES, METHODOLOGIES FOR CREATION AND PRODUCTS THEREBY | HOWELL, THEODORE R | 57d |
| 18671814 | TERPENE-BASED COMPOSITIONS, PROCESSES, METHODOLOGIES FOR CREATION AND PRODUCTS THEREBY | HOWELL, THEODORE R | — |
| 18530143 | TERPENE-BASED COMPOSITIONS, METHODOLGIES FOR CREATION AND PRODUCTS THEREBY | HOWELL, THEODORE R | — |
| 18490846 | ACTUATOR HOLDER APPARATUS | BOWERS, NATHAN ANDREW | — |
| 17336101 | RIDE ASSIGNMENT SYSTEM | ABOUZAHRA, REHAM K | — |
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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17745763 | COMPOSITE SOLID ELECTROLYTE | CLARY, KAYLA ELAINE | 91d overdue |
| 18530198 | TERPENE-BASED COMPOSITIONS, PROCESSES, METHODOLOGIES FOR CREATION AND PRODUCTS THEREBY | HOWELL, THEODORE R | 57d |
| 18673162 | SOLVENTLESS METHOD OF PRODUCING COATED BOTANICAL SUBSTRATES | KUMAR, SRILAKSHMI K | — |
| 18671916 | TERPENE-BASED COMPOSITIONS, PROCESSES, METHODOLOGIES FOR CREATION AND PRODUCTS THEREBY | HOWELL, THEODORE R | — |
| 18671814 | TERPENE-BASED COMPOSITIONS, PROCESSES, METHODOLOGIES FOR CREATION AND PRODUCTS THEREBY | HOWELL, THEODORE R | — |
| 18671969 | TERPENE-BASED COMPOSITIONS, PROCESSES, METHODOLOGIES FOR CREATION AND PRODUCTS THEREBY | HOWELL, THEODORE R | — |
| 18530143 | TERPENE-BASED COMPOSITIONS, METHODOLGIES FOR CREATION AND PRODUCTS THEREBY | HOWELL, THEODORE R | — |
| 18490846 | ACTUATOR HOLDER APPARATUS | BOWERS, NATHAN ANDREW | — |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| Scientific Holdings, LLC | 6 |
| Chiron On-Chip Biotechnologies B.V. | 1 |
| Natrion Inc. | 1 |
| HopSkipDrive | 1 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1628 | 4 |
| 1748 | 1 |
| 1799 | 1 |
| 1721 | 1 |
| 3625 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18673162 | SOLVENTLESS METHOD OF PRODUCING COATED BOTANICAL SUBSTRATES | Scientific Holdings, LLC | KUMAR, SRILAKSHMI K | 1748 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 23, 2024 |
| 18671916 | TERPENE-BASED COMPOSITIONS, PROCESSES, METHODOLOGIES FOR CREATION AND PRODUCTS THEREBY | Scientific Holdings, LLC | HOWELL, THEODORE R | 1628 | §112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 22, 2024 |
| 18671814 | TERPENE-BASED COMPOSITIONS, PROCESSES, METHODOLOGIES FOR CREATION AND PRODUCTS THEREBY | Scientific Holdings, LLC | HOWELL, THEODORE R | 1628 | §101§102§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 22, 2024 |
| 18671969 | TERPENE-BASED COMPOSITIONS, PROCESSES, METHODOLOGIES FOR CREATION AND PRODUCTS THEREBY | Scientific Holdings, LLC | HOWELL, THEODORE R | §112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 22, 2024 | |
| 18530198 | TERPENE-BASED COMPOSITIONS, PROCESSES, METHODOLOGIES FOR CREATION AND PRODUCTS THEREBY | Scientific Holdings, LLC | HOWELL, THEODORE R | 1628 | §101§102§112 | Non-Final OA | 57d | Pending | Dec 05, 2023 |
| 18530143 | TERPENE-BASED COMPOSITIONS, METHODOLGIES FOR CREATION AND PRODUCTS THEREBY | Scientific Holdings, LLC | HOWELL, THEODORE R | 1628 | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 05, 2023 |
| 18490846 | ACTUATOR HOLDER APPARATUS | Chiron On-Chip Biotechnologies B.V. | BOWERS, NATHAN ANDREW | 1799 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 20, 2023 |
| 17745763 | COMPOSITE SOLID ELECTROLYTE | Natrion Inc. | CLARY, KAYLA ELAINE | 1721 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 91d overdue | Pending | May 16, 2022 |
| 17336101 | RIDE ASSIGNMENT SYSTEM | Hopskipdrive, Inc. | ABOUZAHRA, REHAM K | 3625 | §101 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 01, 2021 |
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