Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals
280 pending office actions • 172 clients • 261 examiners • 128 art units • 0 of 280 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Leason Ellis LLP manages a portfolio in Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals with 10301 career applications. The firm maintains a resolved allowance rate of 88.21 percent for applications that reach a final resolution. Achieving these results involves an average of 2.83 office actions per allowance. Currently, the firm has 203 pending office actions to address.
The 10301 career applications and 88.21 percent allowance rate reflect the firm's practice in its primary technology area. The 2.83 average office actions per allowance provides a benchmark for expected examiner interaction during the patent acquisition process. These figures offer a data-grounded view of the firm's historical performance and current workload for practitioners evaluating the firm's Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals experience.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 82 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. 82 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 only | 4 (1%) |
| §101 + other | 26 (9%) |
| §103 only | 58 (21%) |
| §102 only | 13 (5%) |
| §112 only | 20 (7%) |
| Double-patenting only | 6 (2%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 26 (9%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 124 (44%) |
| No statute on record | 3 (1%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| REGA, KYLE THOMAS | 3 | 62.7% | +41.4% |
| PAZ ESTEVEZ, GUILLERMO G | 3 | 20.0% | +6.8% |
| STEADMAN, DAVID J | 2 | 57.7% | +29.7% |
| ROBINSON, RENEE E | 2 | 73.6% | +24.3% |
| ROSSI, JULIA ANNE LORRAIN | 2 | 45.7% | +61.3% |
| GRAVES, TIMOTHY P | 2 | 81.0% | +15.3% |
| CHONG, YONG SOO | 2 | 43.7% | +42.0% |
| LEE, HOI YAN NMN | 2 | 38.4% | +75.9% |
| KIM, BRYAN | 2 | 28.4% | +36.8% |
| HOWELL, THEODORE R | 2 | 66.7% | +25.4% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18726605 | OPTICAL MEASUREMENT SYSTEM | GRAVES, TIMOTHY P | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18044723 | ASSISTANCE SYSTEM, COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR ASSISTANCE SYSTEM, AND METHOD OF CONTROL FOR ASSISTANCE SYSTEM | KANG, TIMOTHY J | 162d overdue |
| 17317717 | VENOUS ACCESS CATHETERS AND METHODS FOR PORTAL VENOUS SYSTEM CATHETERIZATION | PAZ ESTEVEZ, GUILLERMO G | 128d overdue |
| 17501148 | VENOUS ACCESS CATHETERS AND METHODS FOR PORTAL VENOUS SYSTEM CATHETERIZATION | PAZ ESTEVEZ, GUILLERMO G | 114d overdue |
| 18252712 | EUTECTIC COMPOSITIONS, METHODS AND USES THEREOF | MEYERS, ELIZABETH ANNE | 93d overdue |
| 17112451 | AUTOMATED HEALTH DATA ACQUISITION, PROCESSING AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEM | HOLCOMB, MARK | 89d overdue |
| 17997965 | Absorbent Structure for Items of Clothing, Operating Method and Uses Thereof | PATEL, RONAK C | 87d overdue |
| 18522773 | METHOD FOR GENERATING TEXTUAL DESCRIPTIONS FOR A DATA CHART AND ENHANCING NAVIGABILITY ON GRAPHICAL INTERFACES | CALDERON SANTIAGO, ALVARO RAFAEL | 86d overdue |
| 17415070 | BIODEGRADABLE BIOCHEMICAL SENSOR FOR DETERMINING THE PRESENCE AND/OR THE LEVEL OF PESTICIDES OR ENDOCRINE DISRUPTORS: METHOD AND COMPOSITION | BREEN, KIMBERLY CATHERINE | 84d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18248733 | COMBINATION OF POH AND REMDESIVIR FOR TREATMENT OF CNS INFECTIONS | LEE, HOI YAN NMN | 134d overdue |
| 18107336 | METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR IMPROVING COGNITIVE FUNCTION | HOWELL, THEODORE R | 78d overdue |
| 18376127 | METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR IMPROVING COGNITIVE FUNCTION | HOWELL, THEODORE R | 50d overdue |
| 18149913 | CONSTRUCTS, COMPOSITIONS, CELLS AND METHODS FOR INCREASED RECOMBINANT PROTEIN EXPRESSION BY TARGETED INTEGRATION AND AMPLIFICATION | REGA, KYLE THOMAS | 36d overdue |
| 18265525 | CYCLOBENZAPRINE TREATMENT FOR FIBROMYALGIA | CHONG, YONG SOO | 26d |
| 17995191 | INDOLE DITERPENE BIOSYNTHESIS | STEADMAN, DAVID J | 34d |
| 18561146 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR COOKING FOOD USING ALCOHOL, WITHOUT CONTACT | KIM, BRYAN | 42d |
| 19114714 | Protease-conditional targeted nucleic acid recombination, method and uses thereof | STEADMAN, DAVID J | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3783 | 8 |
| 1628 | 7 |
| 1656 | 5 |
| 1636 | 5 |
| 1615 | 4 |
| 1657 | 4 |
| 1622 | 4 |
| 1644 | 4 |
| 3614 | 3 |
| 1791 | 3 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19673111 | HANGER WITH A DOUBLE TORSION SPRING COIL CLIP AND HOOK SWING LIMITER | King Keung Kennedy Chan | DURHAM, NATHAN E | 3732 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 11, 2026 |
| 19423896 | OPERATING DEVICE FOR AN ACTUATOR OF A MOTOR VEHICLE | Ferrari S.p.A. | MACARTHUR, VICTOR L | 3618 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 17, 2025 |
| 19489056 | Control Systems, Methods and Devices | Sensor Holdings Limited | XIE, KWIN | 2626 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 01, 2025 |
| 19386688 | ROAD VEHICLE WITH CONTROLLED DETACHMENT OF FRONT WHEELS IN CASE OF ANGLED FRONTAL CRASH | Ferrari S.p.A. | GANCI, MATTHEW JOSEPH | 3614 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 12, 2025 |
| 19385648 | POWER TRANSMISSION APPARATUS | Hyundai WIA Corporation | MASINICK, JONATHAN PETER | 3678 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 11, 2025 |
| 19379288 | CONSTANT VELOCITY JOINT ASSEMBLY | Hyundai WIA Corporation | HALL, ZACHARY A | 3678 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 04, 2025 |
| 19279492 | METHOD FOR PROCESSING PRODUCT MANUFACTURING MESSAGES, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM | BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD. | SHIN, KYUNG H | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 24, 2025 | |
| 19272570 | INTERACTIVE TELEVISION SYSTEM AND METHOD INCLUDING SUPPLEMENTAL CONTENT | Dymaxion LLC | HONG, MICHAEL HYUN | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 17, 2025 | |
| 19272656 | SEMANTIC MATCHING SYSTEM AND METHOD | Janzz Ltd. | VU, BAI DUC | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 17, 2025 | |
| 19232259 | Method and apparatus for a receiver for orthogonal frequency division multiplexing signals with strong nonlinear distortion effects | Cofac - Cooperativa De Formação E Animação Cultural, Crl | TAYONG, HELENE E | 2631 | §101§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 09, 2025 |
| 19216988 | COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED METHOD FOR MONITORING A COMPUTER SYSTEM FOR ACCOUNT AND/OR SESSION SECURITY ATTACKS, AND COMPUTER SYSTEM THEREOF | Feedzai - Consultadoria E Inovação Tecnológica, S.A. | BENGZON, GREG C | 2444 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 23, 2025 |
| 19213042 | APPARATUS FOR THE TREATMENT OF POWDER, GRAIN, PASTE PRODUCTS OR THE LIKE | Wamgroup S.p.A. | DANDRIDGE, CHRISTOPHER R. | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 20, 2025 | |
| 19130721 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CALIBRATING AN ADAS ELECTRONIC DEVICE OF AN ADVANCED DRIVING ASSISTANCE SYSTEM OF A VEHICLE | Texa S.p.A. | DYER, ANDREW R | 3662 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 16, 2025 |
| 19192936 | GRIPPING SYSTEM FOR COMPRESSION MOLDING OF SLABS OF COMPOSITE MATERIAL | Leonardo S.p.A. | KIM, YUNJU | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 29, 2025 | |
| 19185825 | CONTAINER WITH ATTACHMENT MECHANISM FOR FACILITATING COLD THERAPY | Arctic Shower LLC | NIA, ALIREZA | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 22, 2025 | |
| 19177003 | Earth Drilling Device | Tracto-Technik GmbH & Co. Kg | BOMAR, THOMAS S | 3674 | §102Other | Non-Final OA | 33d | Pending | Apr 11, 2025 |
| 18852378 | SURFACE-COATED CUTTING TOOL | Mitsubishi Materials Corporation | WANG, XIAOBEI | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 02, 2025 | |
| 19097291 | CONTAINER AND ICE MAKER | Bestqi Innovation Technology (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd. | MOORE, ADAM DORREL | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 01, 2025 | |
| 19117624 | A Fabric-Handling Dual-Manipulator System with Fabric Rolling-Up End-Effectors | Centre For Garment Production Limited | JOHNSON, KYLE T | 3656 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 01, 2025 |
| 19114714 | Protease-conditional targeted nucleic acid recombination, method and uses thereof | Instituto De Biologia Experimental E Tecnológica – Ibet | STEADMAN, DAVID J | 1656 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 24, 2025 |
| 19112100 | THERMOPLASMONIC DEVICE, RESPECTIVE WIRELESS ENERGY TRANSFER SYSTEM AND RESPECTIVE OPERATION METHOD | Centre National De La Recherche Scientifique (Cnrs) | AYAD, TAMIR | 1726 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 14, 2025 |
| 19108279 | EXPLAINABLE DEEP LEARNING METHOD FOR NON-INVASIVE DETECTION OF PULMONARY HYPERTENSION FROM HEART SOUNDS | Aalborg University | DOUGHERTY, SEAN PATRICK | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 03, 2025 | |
| 19065944 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR IMPROVING CLAIM REMITTANCE USING DETECTED CLAIM DENIAL PATTERNS | Revops Health, Inc. | SCHWARZENBERG, PAUL | 3695 | §101§102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 27, 2025 |
| 19106872 | A MECHANICALLY SWITCHED SUPERCONDUCTING FLUX PUMP | Victoria Link Limited | MOODY, KYLE J | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 26, 2025 | |
| 19103018 | METHOD FOR REDUCTION OF FUEL CONSUMPTION OF A VEHICLE | Iveco S.p.A. | VAN BRAMER, JOHN W | 3622 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 11, 2025 |
| 19013697 | METHOD FOR BOWEL PREPARATION | Msm Innovations, Inc. | ROSENTHAL, ANDREW S | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 08, 2025 | |
| 18992048 | PLANAR COIL ARRAY AND DISPLACEMENT SENSOR | Hitachi Astemo, Ltd. | RAJAPUTRA, SURESH KS | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 07, 2025 | |
| 18880121 | METHOD TO OBTAIN A SKIN ELECTRODE PATCH AND RESPECTIVE SKIN ELECTRODE PATCH | UNIVERSIDADE DE COIMBRA | BLAISE, BRADFORD CHRISTOPHER | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 30, 2024 | |
| 18984265 | ROAD VEHICLE IMPROVED TO REDUCE VIBRATION AND UNWANTED NOISE IN THE CABIN | Ferrari S.p.A. | IRVIN, THOMAS W | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 17, 2024 | |
| 18875516 | CARRIER MATERIAL FOR LOCALLY RELEASING PARTICULATE SUBSTANCE | Gellycle Co., Ltd. | MERCIER, MELISSA S | 1615 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 16, 2024 |
| 18978489 | CAR WITH BATTERY INTEGRATED IN THE UNDER-DOOR SIDE MEMBERS | Ferrari S.p.A. | WU, LORI SOUTHARD | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 12, 2024 | |
| 18874470 | SOLAR COLLECTOR ARRANGEMENT | University Of Pretoria | DAM, DUSTIN Q | 1721 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 12, 2024 |
| 18977599 | Methods and Kits for Wrapping and Transporting a Handroll | Jomasa LLC | SMITH, CHAIM A | 1791 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 11, 2024 |
| 18970291 | THERMAL STRIPPING UREA PLANT AND PROCESS | Stamicarbon B.V. | ROBINSON, RENEE E | §112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 05, 2024 | |
| 18968719 | UMBRELLA WITH ANTI-INVERSION ASSEMBLY | Shedrain Corporation | JACKSON, DANIELLE | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 04, 2024 | |
| 18968601 | BATTERY PACK FOR A ROAD VEHICLE WITH ELECTRIC PROPULSION AND ELECTRICALLY PROPELLED ROAD VEHICLE PROVIDED WITH SAID BATTERY PACK | Ferrari S.p.A. | JOHNS, HILARY LYNN | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 04, 2024 | |
| 18967738 | GENERATION OF LUNG ORGANOIDS FROM PLURIPOTENT STEM CELLS AND USE THEREOF | The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York | KIM, TAEYOON | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 04, 2024 | |
| 18962042 | MOTOR VEHICLE PASSENGER COMPARTMENT WITH PILLARS PROVIDED WITH COVERING ELEMENTS FOR ABSORBING IMPACTS | Ferrari S.p.A. | DANIELS, JASON S | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 27, 2024 | |
| 18869875 | BIDIRECTIONAL FEEDBACK SYSTEM AND RESPECTIVE METHOD | UNIVERSIDADE DE COIMBRA | EGLOFF, PETER RICHARD | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 27, 2024 | |
| 18869087 | MYCELIAL FOOD SUBSTITUTE AND A METHOD OF ITS PRODUCTION | Bumble Be GmbH | PRAKASH, SUBBALAKSHMI | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 25, 2024 | |
| 18868112 | DOSAGE FORMS FOR TOPICAL ADMINISTRATION OF PENTACYCLIC TRITERPENES | Giuliani S.p.A. | PROSSER, ALISSA J | 1619 | §103DP | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 21, 2024 |
| 18866723 | Non-Invasive Intranasal Neuromodulation System | Icahn School Of Medicine AT Mount Sinai | HUSSAINI, ATTIYA SAYYADA | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 18, 2024 | |
| 18865294 | SUBSEA CONFIGURATION FOR FLOATING STRUCTURES OF AN OFFSHORE WIND FARM | TotalEnergies OneTech SAS | GLOVER, SHANNA DANIELLE | 3615 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 12, 2024 |
| 18929316 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR NEUROLOGIC REHABILITATION | Medrhythms, Inc. | MELHUS, BENJAMIN S | §102Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 28, 2024 | |
| 18927152 | SPLICING APPARATUS FOR SPLICING MATERIAL WEBS FOR THE PRODUCTION OF POWER STORAGE DEVICES, MACHINE COMPRISING THE SPLICING APPARATUS AND RELATIVE SPLICING METHOD | Manz Italy S.r.l. | RIVERA, WILLIAM ARAUZ | 3654 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 25, 2024 |
| 18926843 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS | Beijing Eswin Computing Technology Co., Ltd. | AL-TAWEEL, MUAAMAR QAHTAN | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 25, 2024 | |
| 18575145 | METHOD FOR THE IN SITU REGENERATION OF AN ADSORBENT MEDIUM | Suez International | DRODGE, JOSEPH W | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 24, 2024 | |
| 18857240 | WHEEL FASTENING SYSTEM | Mcmurtry Automotive Limited | MULLER, BRYAN R | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 16, 2024 | |
| 18856352 | IMPROVED CHASSIS FOR A HEAVY VEHICLE | Idv Defence Vehicles Italia S.p.A. | KECK, DANIEL M | 3614 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 11, 2024 |
| 18912551 | VASCULAR NETWORK INSPIRED FLUIDIC SYSTEM FOR SPATIOTEMPORAL REGULATION OF FLUID COMPONENTS | Advanced Biomedical Instrumentation Centre Limited | VARGOT, MATHIEU D | 1742 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 10, 2024 |
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Start Free Trial88.2% of resolved applications prosecuted by Leason Ellis, LLP were allowed, across 10,315 applications in USPTO records.
2.83 office actions per allowed application on average.
280 pending office actions as of October 2026, for 172 clients, before 261 examiners in 128 art units.