Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals
4 pending office actions • 4 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
Chanel Parfums Beaute currently has 4 pending office actions situated in the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. These matters are being reviewed by 4 distinct examiners, which suggests a broad distribution of the company's intellectual property across different individual reviewers. The prosecution is further divided among 4 distinct art units.
JENNIFER A BERRIOS is identified as the busiest examiner, though she is responsible for only 1 pending office action. This indicates that each of the 4 pending office actions is being handled by a different examiner, as the number of distinct examiners matches the total number of pending actions. With 4 distinct art units involved, the company must navigate various specialized standards within the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals sector.
The fact that the busiest examiner pending count is 1 confirms that the workload is perfectly distributed, with no single examiner managing more than one case. This high level of examiner and art unit diversity means that prosecution outcomes will be influenced by 4 different sets of examiner habits and departmental guidelines. Practitioners should prepare for varied feedback across this portfolio.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 only | 1 (25%) |
| §101 + other | 1 (25%) |
| §103 only | 1 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (25%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BERRIOS, JENNIFER A | 1 | 37.0% | +49.8% |
| WISTNER, SARAH CLINKSCALES | 1 | 25.0% | +81.0% |
| EDWARDS, JESSICA FAYE | 1 | 39.1% | +46.4% |
| PRAGANI, RAJAN | 1 | 53.3% | +70.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18306573 | STABLE HIGH INTERNAL PHASE EMULSIONS AND COMPOSITIONS COMPRISING THE SAME | WISTNER, SARAH CLINKSCALES | 33d |
| 18467965 | ALCOHOLIC EXTRACT OF CITRUS DEPRESSA PEELS, METHOD FOR OBTAINING IT, AND COSMETIC OR DERMATOLOGICAL COMPOSITION CONTAINING IT | BERRIOS, JENNIFER A | — |
| 18300789 | METHODS FOR DETERMINING THE MOISTURE CONTENT OF THE SKIN | EDWARDS, JESSICA FAYE | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17916674 | MULTI-PHASE COSMETIC COMPOSITION COMPRISING AT LEAST TWO IMMISCIBLE OILY PHASES | PRAGANI, RAJAN | 23d |
| 18306573 | STABLE HIGH INTERNAL PHASE EMULSIONS AND COMPOSITIONS COMPRISING THE SAME | WISTNER, SARAH CLINKSCALES | 33d |
| 18467965 | ALCOHOLIC EXTRACT OF CITRUS DEPRESSA PEELS, METHOD FOR OBTAINING IT, AND COSMETIC OR DERMATOLOGICAL COMPOSITION CONTAINING IT | BERRIOS, JENNIFER A | — |
| 18300789 | METHODS FOR DETERMINING THE MOISTURE CONTENT OF THE SKIN | EDWARDS, JESSICA FAYE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1613 | 1 |
| 1616 | 1 |
| 1657 | 1 |
| 1614 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18467965 | ALCOHOLIC EXTRACT OF CITRUS DEPRESSA PEELS, METHOD FOR OBTAINING IT, AND COSMETIC OR DERMATOLOGICAL COMPOSITION CONTAINING IT | BERRIOS, JENNIFER A | 1613 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 15, 2023 |
| 18306573 | STABLE HIGH INTERNAL PHASE EMULSIONS AND COMPOSITIONS COMPRISING THE SAME | WISTNER, SARAH CLINKSCALES | 1616 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 33d | Pending | Apr 25, 2023 |
| 18300789 | METHODS FOR DETERMINING THE MOISTURE CONTENT OF THE SKIN | EDWARDS, JESSICA FAYE | 1657 | §101 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 14, 2023 |
| 17916674 | MULTI-PHASE COSMETIC COMPOSITION COMPRISING AT LEAST TWO IMMISCIBLE OILY PHASES | PRAGANI, RAJAN | 1614 | §103 | Final Rejection | 23d | Pending | Oct 03, 2022 |
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