Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Chemistry & Materials
7 pending office actions • 1 client • 7 examiners • 6 art units • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
GTC Law Group PC & Affiliates - Tufts focuses on Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals. The firm shares a career application count of 1914 with its affiliates, maintaining a resolved allowance rate of 83.23 percent. On average, the firm receives 3.6 office actions per allowance during the prosecution process.
The firm currently has 6 pending office actions. The 83.23 percent allowance rate indicates the firm's success in the highly regulated biotech and pharma space. Practitioners can weigh the 3.6 average office actions per allowance against the 1914 career applications to understand the firm's experience level and typical prosecution timeline. The data is a significant metric for clients in Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals, where patentability can be challenging. With 6 pending office actions currently active, the firm continues to navigate these technical fields using its established prosecution style. The firm's track record with 1914 career applications provides a solid foundation for its ongoing work in life sciences.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 1 (14%) |
| §112 only | 1 (14%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (14%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (43%) |
| No statute on record | 1 (14%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MULVANEY, ELIZABETH EVANS | 1 | 78.9% | +15.1% |
| ALLEY, GENEVIEVE S | 1 | 60.3% | +48.2% |
| MARVICH, MARIA | 1 | 54.9% | +28.1% |
| JOHNSON, JENNA LEIGH | 1 | 47.4% | +19.3% |
| WESTERBERG, NISSA M | 1 | 23.4% | +37.1% |
| KIM, BRYAN | 1 | 28.4% | +36.8% |
| PALENIK, JEFFREY T | 1 | 53.6% | +27.2% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18360217 | RAPID HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING SYSTEM TO ASSESS POTENTIAL TREATMENTS FOR SPORADIC ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE | MARVICH, MARIA | 87d overdue |
| 17753312 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR HIGH-THROUGHPUT SCREENING AND ANALYSIS OF DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEMS IN VITRO | WESTERBERG, NISSA M | 19d overdue |
| 18342271 | SILK-BASED ARTICLES HAVING DECREASED WATER UPTAKE AND IMPROVED MECHANICAL PROPERTIES, AND METHODS OF MAKING AND USING THE SAME | JOHNSON, JENNA LEIGH | 15d |
| 18966464 | MICROPATTERNED SILK-DOPAMINE ADHESIVES COMPOSITE | MULVANEY, ELIZABETH EVANS | — |
| 17444293 | Biopolymer-Based Preservation of Perishable Products | KIM, BRYAN | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18360217 | RAPID HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING SYSTEM TO ASSESS POTENTIAL TREATMENTS FOR SPORADIC ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE | MARVICH, MARIA | 87d overdue |
| 17753312 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR HIGH-THROUGHPUT SCREENING AND ANALYSIS OF DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEMS IN VITRO | WESTERBERG, NISSA M | 19d overdue |
| 18342271 | SILK-BASED ARTICLES HAVING DECREASED WATER UPTAKE AND IMPROVED MECHANICAL PROPERTIES, AND METHODS OF MAKING AND USING THE SAME | JOHNSON, JENNA LEIGH | 15d |
| 18966464 | MICROPATTERNED SILK-DOPAMINE ADHESIVES COMPOSITE | MULVANEY, ELIZABETH EVANS | — |
| 18746604 | SILK-BASED ARTICLES HAVING VARIABLE ACTIVE AGENT RELEASE RATES | ALLEY, GENEVIEVE S | — |
| 17444293 | Biopolymer-Based Preservation of Perishable Products | KIM, BRYAN | — |
| 17169195 | MULTI-LAYER BIOMATERIAL FOR TISSUE REGENERATION AND WOUND HEALING | PALENIK, JEFFREY T | — |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| Tufts University | 7 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1617 | 1 |
| 1634 | 1 |
| 1789 | 1 |
| 1618 | 1 |
| 1792 | 1 |
| 1615 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18966464 | MICROPATTERNED SILK-DOPAMINE ADHESIVES COMPOSITE | Trustees Of Tufts College | MULVANEY, ELIZABETH EVANS | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 03, 2024 | |
| 18746604 | SILK-BASED ARTICLES HAVING VARIABLE ACTIVE AGENT RELEASE RATES | Trustees Of Tufts College | ALLEY, GENEVIEVE S | 1617 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 18, 2024 |
| 18360217 | RAPID HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING SYSTEM TO ASSESS POTENTIAL TREATMENTS FOR SPORADIC ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE | Trustees Of Tufts College | MARVICH, MARIA | 1634 | §102§112Other | Final Rejection | 87d overdue | Pending | Jul 27, 2023 |
| 18342271 | SILK-BASED ARTICLES HAVING DECREASED WATER UPTAKE AND IMPROVED MECHANICAL PROPERTIES, AND METHODS OF MAKING AND USING THE SAME | Trustees Of Tufts College | JOHNSON, JENNA LEIGH | 1789 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 15d | Pending | Jun 27, 2023 |
| 17753312 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR HIGH-THROUGHPUT SCREENING AND ANALYSIS OF DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEMS IN VITRO | Trustees Of Tufts College | WESTERBERG, NISSA M | 1618 | §103§112DP | Final Rejection | 19d overdue | Pending | Feb 28, 2022 |
| 17444293 | Biopolymer-Based Preservation of Perishable Products | Tufts University | KIM, BRYAN | 1792 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 03, 2021 |
| 17169195 | MULTI-LAYER BIOMATERIAL FOR TISSUE REGENERATION AND WOUND HEALING | Tufts University | PALENIK, JEFFREY T | 1615 | Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 05, 2021 |
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