Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Chemistry & Materials
6 pending office actions • 3 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Carbios currently manages a portfolio with 6 pending office actions situated in the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. These matters are assigned to 5 distinct examiners, suggesting a moderate level of examiner variety. The prosecution activity is concentrated within 3 distinct art units, indicating some technical overlap in the 6 pending office actions being processed.
The busiest examiner identified is HUSON, MONICA ANNE, who is responsible for 2 busiest examiner pending actions. This examiner handles 2 of the pending office actions, while the remaining actions are distributed among other distinct examiners. This distribution shows that while most examiners are dealing with a single Carbios application, HUSON, MONICA ANNE has a higher relative volume of the company's current workload.
The focus on 3 distinct art units within the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals sector suggests that the pending office actions are likely grouped into specific sub-disciplines. Practitioners should note that with 5 distinct examiners involved, the company is engaging with multiple perspectives even within a limited number of art units. This requires balancing a unified technical strategy with the individual preferences of 5 distinct examiners.
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 | 3 (50%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 2 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (17%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HUSON, MONICA ANNE | 2 | 79.6% | +13.5% |
| SINGH, SATYENDRA K | 1 | 61.5% | +67.7% |
| BOYKIN, TERRESSA M | 1 | 89.4% | +8.4% |
| THROWER, LARRY W | 1 | 65.9% | +12.6% |
| ESPINOSA, CLAUDIA EDILMA | 1 | 50.9% | +57.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18560943 | PROCESS FOR DEGRADING A PLASTIC PRODUCT COMPRISING AT LEAST ONE POLYESTER | BOYKIN, TERRESSA M | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18560951 | PROCESS FOR DEGRADING A PLASTIC PRODUCT COMPRISING AT LEAST ONE POLYESTER | HUSON, MONICA ANNE | — |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17291290 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING TEREPHTHALIC ACID ON AN INDUSTRIAL SCALE | ESPINOSA, CLAUDIA EDILMA | 27d |
| 18889745 | PROCESS FOR DEGRADING A PLASTIC PRODUCT COMPRISING AT LEAST ONE POLYESTER | HUSON, MONICA ANNE | — |
| 18710658 | ESTERASES AND USES THEREOF | SINGH, SATYENDRA K | — |
| 18560951 | PROCESS FOR DEGRADING A PLASTIC PRODUCT COMPRISING AT LEAST ONE POLYESTER | HUSON, MONICA ANNE | — |
| 17786566 | PROCESS FOR DEGRADING PLASTIC PRODUCTS | THROWER, LARRY W | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1657 | 1 |
| 1754 | 1 |
| 1654 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18889745 | PROCESS FOR DEGRADING A PLASTIC PRODUCT COMPRISING AT LEAST ONE POLYESTER | HUSON, MONICA ANNE | — | §102§103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 19, 2024 |
| 18710658 | ESTERASES AND USES THEREOF | SINGH, SATYENDRA K | 1657 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 16, 2024 |
| 18560951 | PROCESS FOR DEGRADING A PLASTIC PRODUCT COMPRISING AT LEAST ONE POLYESTER | HUSON, MONICA ANNE | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 15, 2023 |
| 18560943 | PROCESS FOR DEGRADING A PLASTIC PRODUCT COMPRISING AT LEAST ONE POLYESTER | BOYKIN, TERRESSA M | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 15, 2023 |
| 17786566 | PROCESS FOR DEGRADING PLASTIC PRODUCTS | THROWER, LARRY W | 1754 | §103DP | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 17, 2022 |
| 17291290 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING TEREPHTHALIC ACID ON AN INDUSTRIAL SCALE | ESPINOSA, CLAUDIA EDILMA | 1654 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | 27d | Pending | May 05, 2021 |
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