Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Communications • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
5 pending office actions • 4 clients • 5 examiners • 4 art units • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Sci-Law Strategies, PC has managed 367 career applications, with a focus on Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals. The firm boasts a high resolved allowance rate of 91.9 percent. Prosecution at the firm averages 3.0 office actions per allowance, which is an efficient pace for the complex biotechnology and pharmaceutical sectors. This combination of high success and efficiency is a significant advantage for its clients in the life sciences.
Currently, the firm has 4 pending office actions. This small number of active matters is part of its 367 career applications. The 91.9 percent allowance rate is an exceptional metric for biotechnology patents. With 3.0 office actions per allowance, the firm demonstrates a highly effective strategy for securing patent grants in a challenging technology area, providing significant value and predictability. This data reflects a firm that delivers exceptional results with a streamlined approach to patent acquisition in a technically demanding field.
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 | 2 (40%) |
| §112 only | 2 (40%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (20%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SAJOUS, WESNER | 1 | 92.0% | +7.7% |
| RICKS, DONNA J | 1 | 76.7% | +10.3% |
| DICKENS, AMELIA NICOLE | 1 | 47.6% | +21.1% |
| TOWA, RENE T | 1 | 49.3% | +17.5% |
| ALLEN, MARIANNE P | 1 | 60.1% | +18.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19030289 | APPARATUS AND SYSTEM FOR RULE BASED VISUALIZATION OF DIGITAL BREAST TOMOSYNTHESIS AND OTHER VOLUMETRIC IMAGES | SAJOUS, WESNER | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17768138 | Natural non-pathogenic microorganisms capable of associating glycolipids or lipopeptides and use thereof | DICKENS, AMELIA NICOLE | 80d overdue |
| 18424594 | MULTI-USER MULTI-GPU RENDER SERVER APPARATUS AND METHODS | RICKS, DONNA J | 59d overdue |
| 16492987 | TARGET DETECTION USING A MONOVALENT ANTIBODY | ALLEN, MARIANNE P | 49d overdue |
| 17666730 | FRICTIONAL TISSUE SAMPLING AND COLLECTION METHOD AND DEVICE | TOWA, RENE T | — |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| PME IP PTY LTD | 2 |
| ACARYON GMBH | 1 |
| Histologics, LLC | 1 |
| NanoTag | 1 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2618 | 1 |
| 1645 | 1 |
| 3791 | 1 |
| 1647 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19030289 | APPARATUS AND SYSTEM FOR RULE BASED VISUALIZATION OF DIGITAL BREAST TOMOSYNTHESIS AND OTHER VOLUMETRIC IMAGES | Pme Ip Pty Ltd. | SAJOUS, WESNER | §112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 17, 2025 | |
| 18424594 | MULTI-USER MULTI-GPU RENDER SERVER APPARATUS AND METHODS | Pme Ip Pty Ltd. | RICKS, DONNA J | 2618 | §103 | Final Rejection | 59d overdue | Pending | Jan 26, 2024 |
| 17768138 | Natural non-pathogenic microorganisms capable of associating glycolipids or lipopeptides and use thereof | Acaryon GmbH | DICKENS, AMELIA NICOLE | 1645 | §112 | Final Rejection | 80d overdue | Pending | Apr 11, 2022 |
| 17666730 | FRICTIONAL TISSUE SAMPLING AND COLLECTION METHOD AND DEVICE | Histologics, LLC | TOWA, RENE T | 3791 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 08, 2022 |
| 16492987 | TARGET DETECTION USING A MONOVALENT ANTIBODY | Nanotag Biotechnologies GmbH | ALLEN, MARIANNE P | 1647 | §112 | Final Rejection | 49d overdue | Pending | Sep 11, 2019 |
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