Technology area: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals
17 pending office actions • 1 client • 17 examiners • 14 art units • 0 of 17 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 10 patents granted in the last 365 days
MBHB - IDEXX handles Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals matters and has 216 career applications. Its profile lists 15 pending office actions and a 93.52% resolved allowance rate, showing that most resolved applications reached allowance.
Allowances required an average of 4.08 office actions, indicating that successful resolution commonly followed repeated examination activity. Practitioners can use the pending count to assess current workload and the outcome figures to evaluate historical prosecution performance.
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 only | 1 (6%) |
| §101 + other | 3 (18%) |
| §103 only | 2 (12%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (6%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 10 (59%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PLAYER, ROBERT AUSTIN | 1 | 13.6% | +34.1% |
| SHIN, SOO JUNG | 1 | 87.2% | +16.1% |
| MCNICHOLS, ERET C | 1 | 75.0% | -15.6% |
| GRASER, JENNIFER E | 1 | 76.8% | +23.2% |
| PAULS, JOHN A | 1 | 49.0% | +27.7% |
| SOLTANZADEH, AMIR | 1 | 80.9% | +16.6% |
| HOFFMAN, ALEXANDER JOSEPH | 1 | 0.0% | +0.0% |
| SINES, BRIAN J | 1 | 80.1% | +5.2% |
| TURK, NEIL N | 1 | 51.0% | +44.2% |
| GABEL, GAILENE | 1 | 75.6% | +44.7% |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18968256 | Methods and Systems for X-Ray Imaging and Labeling | SHIN, SOO JUNG | — |
| 18627865 | Methods and Systems for Remote Installation of Computer Software and Monitoring Progress of the Installation on a Local Computing Entity | SOLTANZADEH, AMIR | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18757823 | Methods and Systems for In-Clinic Compliance Protocols | PAULS, JOHN A | 30d overdue |
| 18222429 | Determination of Hematocrit | MISHRA, DEEPA | 20d |
| 18541764 | DEVICES AND METHODS FOR DETECTING PANCREATIC LIPASE | DAVIS, RUTH A | 70d |
| 18968694 | Methods, Systems, and Devices for Hematologic Morphology Detection and Treatment | PLAYER, ROBERT AUSTIN | — |
| 18962899 | Devices and Methods for Alignment Tools | MCNICHOLS, ERET C | — |
| 18910810 | Methods, Devices, Kits and Compositions for Detecting Tapeworm | GRASER, JENNIFER E | — |
| 18618910 | CAPTURE REAGENT FOR LATERAL FLOW IMMUNOASSAY | HOFFMAN, ALEXANDER JOSEPH | — |
| 18434614 | Methods, Systems, and Devices for Linear Electrowetting Cartridges | SINES, BRIAN J | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18757823 | Methods and Systems for In-Clinic Compliance Protocols | PAULS, JOHN A | 30d overdue |
| 18968694 | Methods, Systems, and Devices for Hematologic Morphology Detection and Treatment | PLAYER, ROBERT AUSTIN | — |
| 18968256 | Methods and Systems for X-Ray Imaging and Labeling | SHIN, SOO JUNG | — |
| 18910810 | Methods, Devices, Kits and Compositions for Detecting Tapeworm | GRASER, JENNIFER E | — |
| 18627865 | Methods and Systems for Remote Installation of Computer Software and Monitoring Progress of the Installation on a Local Computing Entity | SOLTANZADEH, AMIR | — |
| 18427503 | Methods, Systems, and Device for Electrowetting Bar-Coded Magnetic Beads | TURK, NEIL N | — |
| 18390970 | IMMUNOASSAY DEVICE AND METHOD | GABEL, GAILENE | — |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| IDEXX LABORATORIES, Inc. | 17 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1798 | 2 |
| 1678 | 2 |
| 1686 | 1 |
| 2667 | 1 |
| 3632 | 1 |
| 3683 | 1 |
| 2191 | 1 |
| 1677 | 1 |
| 1796 | 1 |
| 1682 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18968694 | Methods, Systems, and Devices for Hematologic Morphology Detection and Treatment | IDEXX Laboratories, Inc. | PLAYER, ROBERT AUSTIN | 1686 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 04, 2024 |
| 18968256 | Methods and Systems for X-Ray Imaging and Labeling | IDEXX Laboratories, Inc. | SHIN, SOO JUNG | 2667 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 04, 2024 |
| 18962899 | Devices and Methods for Alignment Tools | IDEXX Laboratories, Inc. | MCNICHOLS, ERET C | 3632 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 27, 2024 |
| 18910810 | Methods, Devices, Kits and Compositions for Detecting Tapeworm | IDEXX Laboratories, Inc. | GRASER, JENNIFER E | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 09, 2024 | |
| 18757823 | Methods and Systems for In-Clinic Compliance Protocols | IDEXX Laboratories, Inc. | PAULS, JOHN A | 3683 | §101 | Non-Final OA | 30d overdue | Pending | Jun 28, 2024 |
| 18627865 | Methods and Systems for Remote Installation of Computer Software and Monitoring Progress of the Installation on a Local Computing Entity | IDEXX Laboratories, Inc. | SOLTANZADEH, AMIR | 2191 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 05, 2024 |
| 18618910 | CAPTURE REAGENT FOR LATERAL FLOW IMMUNOASSAY | IDEXX Laboratories, Inc. | HOFFMAN, ALEXANDER JOSEPH | 1677 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 27, 2024 |
| 18434614 | Methods, Systems, and Devices for Linear Electrowetting Cartridges | IDEXX Laboratories, Inc. | SINES, BRIAN J | 1796 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 06, 2024 |
| 18427503 | Methods, Systems, and Device for Electrowetting Bar-Coded Magnetic Beads | IDEXX Laboratories, Inc. | TURK, NEIL N | 1798 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 30, 2024 |
| 18390970 | IMMUNOASSAY DEVICE AND METHOD | IDEXX Laboratories, Inc. | GABEL, GAILENE | 1678 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 20, 2023 |
| 18391216 | PERIANAL SWAB PCR PANEL, METHODS, DEVICE, AND KITS | IDEXX Laboratories, Inc. | GOLDBERG, JEANINE ANNE | 1682 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 20, 2023 |
| 18390889 | LATERAL FLOW ANALYTICAL DEVICE AND METHOD | IDEXX Laboratories, Inc. | RAMIREZ, ALEX | 1798 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 20, 2023 |
| 18541764 | DEVICES AND METHODS FOR DETECTING PANCREATIC LIPASE | IDEXX Laboratories, Inc. | DAVIS, RUTH A | 1699 | §103§112Other | Final Rejection | 70d | Pending | Dec 15, 2023 |
| 18222429 | Determination of Hematocrit | IDEXX Laboratories, Inc. | MISHRA, DEEPA | 1657 | §101§103§112 | Final Rejection | 20d | Pending | Jul 15, 2023 |
| 18352792 | System and Methods for At-Home Diagnostics Utilizing Microneedles | IDEXX Laboratories, Inc. | HOEKSTRA, JEFFREY GERBEN | 3791 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 14, 2023 |
| 18189874 | METHODS, DEVICE, KIT AND COMPOSITIONS FOR DETECTING FELINE LUNGWORM | IDEXX Laboratories, Inc. | CHEONG, CHEOM-GIL | 1645 | §101§102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 24, 2023 |
| 17705924 | Methods for Detecting Symmetrical Dimethylarginine | IDEXX Laboratories, Inc. | EVANS, CHRISTOPHER RYAN | 1678 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 28, 2022 |
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Start Free Trial93.5% of resolved applications prosecuted by Mbhb - Idexx were allowed, across 216 applications in USPTO records.
4.08 office actions per allowed application on average.
17 pending office actions as of October 2026, for 1 client, before 17 examiners in 14 art units.
