Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
7 pending office actions • 5 clients • 6 examiners • 6 art units • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Viridant IP focuses on Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals, managing 65 career applications. The firm has a resolved allowance rate pct of 95.0. This rate indicates success in securing patent grants for its clients in the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals sector. Practitioners can use the 65 career applications to evaluate the firm's historical outcomes. These metrics offer a basis for setting expectations for future filings in this technical field. The 95.0 resolved allowance rate pct provides a measure of success for applications managed by the firm.
Currently, the firm has 7 pending office actions. Its avg office actions per allowance is 4.16. This 4.16 avg office actions per allowance reflects the number of examiner interactions typically required to reach an allowance. With 7 pending office actions, the firm continues to manage its active cases. The 4.16 avg office actions per allowance helps practitioners estimate the resources needed for the examination phase. The 95.0 resolved allowance rate pct and the 7 pending office actions provide a view of the firm's performance.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| §102 only | 1 (14%) |
| §112 only | 2 (29%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (14%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (43%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MENGESHA, WEBESHET | 2 | 47.2% | +12.7% |
| WALTERS JR, ROBERT S | 1 | 51.5% | +50.4% |
| MILAKOVICH, NATHAN J | 1 | 78.1% | +18.9% |
| KUVAYSKAYA, ANASTASIA ALEKSEYEVNA | 1 | 72.3% | +36.1% |
| JAGAN, MIRELLYS | 1 | 82.9% | +5.7% |
| PUTTLITZ, KARL J | 1 | 69.1% | +18.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18572734 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR NON-INVASIVELY SENSING INTERNAL TEMPERATURE OF A FLUID CONTAINED IN A HOUSING | JAGAN, MIRELLYS | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18926107 | SYSTEM AND APPARATUS FOR LIQUEFACTION OF NATURAL GAS | MENGESHA, WEBESHET | 72d overdue |
| 19020881 | APPARATUS AND SYSTEMS FOR LIQUEFACTION OF NATURAL GAS | MENGESHA, WEBESHET | — |
| 18573884 | IMPROVED POZZOLAN AND METHODS OF MAKING AND USING SAME | KUVAYSKAYA, ANASTASIA ALEKSEYEVNA | — |
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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18926107 | SYSTEM AND APPARATUS FOR LIQUEFACTION OF NATURAL GAS | MENGESHA, WEBESHET | 72d overdue |
| 19531511 | SULFUR CATHODES, SULFUR CATHODE MATERIALS, AND APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR MAKING SAME | WALTERS JR, ROBERT S | — |
| 19020881 | APPARATUS AND SYSTEMS FOR LIQUEFACTION OF NATURAL GAS | MENGESHA, WEBESHET | — |
| 18841381 | METAL-DOPED ACTIVATED CARBON | MILAKOVICH, NATHAN J | — |
| 18573884 | IMPROVED POZZOLAN AND METHODS OF MAKING AND USING SAME | KUVAYSKAYA, ANASTASIA ALEKSEYEVNA | — |
| 18286895 | Applications of GHR-106 Monoclonal Antibody as a GnRH Antagonist | PUTTLITZ, KARL J | — |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| CARBONIP TECHNOLOGIES INC. | 2 |
| STEELHEAD LNG (ASLNG) LTD. | 2 |
| Progressive Planet Solutions Inc. | 1 |
| Ifd Technologies Inc. | 1 |
| VANCOUVER BIOTECH LTD. | 1 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3763 | 2 |
| 1717 | 1 |
| 2848 | 1 |
| 1731 | 1 |
| 2855 | 1 |
| 1646 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19531511 | SULFUR CATHODES, SULFUR CATHODE MATERIALS, AND APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR MAKING SAME | Carbonip Technologies Inc. | WALTERS JR, ROBERT S | 1717 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 05, 2026 |
| 19020881 | APPARATUS AND SYSTEMS FOR LIQUEFACTION OF NATURAL GAS | Steelhead Lng (Aslng) Ltd. | MENGESHA, WEBESHET | 3763 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 14, 2025 |
| 18926107 | SYSTEM AND APPARATUS FOR LIQUEFACTION OF NATURAL GAS | Steelhead Lng (Aslng) Ltd. | MENGESHA, WEBESHET | 3763 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 72d overdue | Pending | Oct 24, 2024 |
| 18841381 | METAL-DOPED ACTIVATED CARBON | Carbonip Technologies Inc. | MILAKOVICH, NATHAN J | 2848 | §112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 25, 2024 |
| 18573884 | IMPROVED POZZOLAN AND METHODS OF MAKING AND USING SAME | Progressive Planet Solutions Inc. | KUVAYSKAYA, ANASTASIA ALEKSEYEVNA | 1731 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 22, 2023 |
| 18572734 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR NON-INVASIVELY SENSING INTERNAL TEMPERATURE OF A FLUID CONTAINED IN A HOUSING | Ifd Technologies Inc. | JAGAN, MIRELLYS | 2855 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 20, 2023 |
| 18286895 | Applications of GHR-106 Monoclonal Antibody as a GnRH Antagonist | VANCOUVER BIOTECH LTD. | PUTTLITZ, KARL J | 1646 | §103DP | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 13, 2023 |
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