Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Chemistry & Materials
5 pending office actions • 3 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Capsum has 5 pending office actions in the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. These actions are distributed across 5 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units. This indicates that while the company has several active matters, they are being handled by different individuals within a limited number of technical departments.
REBECCA LYNN SCOTLAND is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending office action. Because the company has 5 pending office actions and 5 distinct examiners, the workload is divided such that each examiner manages exactly one action. The 3 distinct art units involved suggest that some of the 5 distinct examiners are working within the same art unit, which may lead to consistency in the technical examination of these Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals applications.
For a practitioner, the presence of 5 distinct examiners means that different negotiation styles may be required. However, the concentration in 3 distinct art units suggests that the 5 pending office actions are technically related. The busiest examiner, REBECCA LYNN SCOTLAND, handles 1 pending office action, which is the same volume as the other examiners. This distribution across 3 distinct art units is a key factor in the company's current prosecution landscape.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 | 2 (40%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (60%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SCOTLAND, REBECCA LYNN | 1 | 0.0% | +0.0% |
| LIPPERT, JOHN WILLIAM | 1 | 58.2% | +40.0% |
| CRAIGO, WILLIAM A | 1 | 49.2% | +38.2% |
| LIU, SUE XU | 1 | 20.9% | +18.6% |
| SARANTAKOS, KAYLA ROSE | 1 | 35.6% | +52.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18584735 | Product comprising a liquid composition and a solid composition comprising at least one cavity | LIU, SUE XU | 41d |
| 18859866 | SOLID COSMETIC CARE COMPOSITION COMPRISING AT LEAST ONE CAVITY | SCOTLAND, REBECCA LYNN | — |
| 18658601 | COSMETIC FRAGRANCE COMPOSITION IN THE FORM OF AN ALCOHOL-FREE EMULSION | CRAIGO, WILLIAM A | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18251833 | DEVICE FOR DECONTAMINATING A HOLLOW OBJECT DEFINING AN INTERNAL CAVITY, AND ASSOCIATED DISPENSING MACHINE AND METHOD | SARANTAKOS, KAYLA ROSE | 8d overdue |
| 18584735 | Product comprising a liquid composition and a solid composition comprising at least one cavity | LIU, SUE XU | 41d |
| 18712621 | MACROSCOPIC DISPERSION WITH A DISPERSED FATTY PHASE HAVING HIGH CATIONIC POLYMER AND PIGMENT CONTENT | LIPPERT, JOHN WILLIAM | — |
| 18658601 | COSMETIC FRAGRANCE COMPOSITION IN THE FORM OF AN ALCOHOL-FREE EMULSION | CRAIGO, WILLIAM A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1615 | 2 |
| 1616 | 1 |
| 1799 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18859866 | SOLID COSMETIC CARE COMPOSITION COMPRISING AT LEAST ONE CAVITY | SCOTLAND, REBECCA LYNN | — | §103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 24, 2024 |
| 18712621 | MACROSCOPIC DISPERSION WITH A DISPERSED FATTY PHASE HAVING HIGH CATIONIC POLYMER AND PIGMENT CONTENT | LIPPERT, JOHN WILLIAM | 1615 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 22, 2024 |
| 18658601 | COSMETIC FRAGRANCE COMPOSITION IN THE FORM OF AN ALCOHOL-FREE EMULSION | CRAIGO, WILLIAM A | 1615 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 08, 2024 |
| 18584735 | Product comprising a liquid composition and a solid composition comprising at least one cavity | LIU, SUE XU | 1616 | §102§103§112Other | Non-Final OA | 41d | Pending | Feb 22, 2024 |
| 18251833 | DEVICE FOR DECONTAMINATING A HOLLOW OBJECT DEFINING AN INTERNAL CAVITY, AND ASSOCIATED DISPENSING MACHINE AND METHOD | SARANTAKOS, KAYLA ROSE | 1799 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 8d overdue | Pending | May 04, 2023 |
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