Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Chemistry & Materials
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Berkeley Fermentation Science Inc. has 2 pending office actions in Chemistry & Materials. The actions are divided between 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units, indicating that the portfolio does not follow a single examination track.
CHEONG, CHEOM-GIL is the busiest examiner and handles 1 pending matter. Response planning should account for the separate examiner and art-unit assignments, especially where related technical positions may need to remain aligned.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 1 (50%) |
| §112 only | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHEONG, CHEOM-GIL | 1 | 64.1% | +53.1% |
| POPA, ILEANA | 1 | 21.7% | +15.7% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18036472 | GENETICALLY ENGINEERED YEAST CELLS AND METHODS OF USE THEREOF | POPA, ILEANA | 69d |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18036472 | GENETICALLY ENGINEERED YEAST CELLS AND METHODS OF USE THEREOF | POPA, ILEANA | 69d |
| 18699011 | METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR REDUCING SMOKE TAINT IN FERMENTED BEVERAGES | CHEONG, CHEOM-GIL | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1793 | 1 |
| 1633 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18699011 | METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR REDUCING SMOKE TAINT IN FERMENTED BEVERAGES | CHEONG, CHEOM-GIL | 1793 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 05, 2024 |
| 18036472 | GENETICALLY ENGINEERED YEAST CELLS AND METHODS OF USE THEREOF | POPA, ILEANA | 1633 | §103 | Final Rejection | 69d | Pending | May 11, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialBerkeley Fermentation Science Inc. has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Cheom-Gil Cheong has the most, with 1 of Berkeley Fermentation Science Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
