Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
9 pending office actions • 7 art units • 9 examiners • 0 of 9 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 15 patents granted in the last 365 days
Church & Dwight Co., Inc. has 8 pending office actions in Chemistry & Materials. The actions are distributed among 8 distinct examiners and 6 distinct art units, indicating that examiner-specific prosecution is central to portfolio management, with some technical-group overlap.
CHANG, KYUNG SOOK is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. No listed examiner has a larger concentration, so counsel should focus on consistent claim objectives and evidence while adapting individual responses to each examiner's treatment of the record and the relevant art unit.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 | 4 (44%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (11%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (44%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHANG, KYUNG SOOK | 1 | 60.5% | +40.8% |
| SASTRI, SATYA B | 1 | 62.6% | +29.4% |
| HAWTHORNE, OPHELIA ALTHEA | 1 | 72.0% | +30.2% |
| BELL, SPENCER E | 1 | 63.0% | +13.4% |
| DOUYON, LORNA M | 1 | 56.8% | +72.1% |
| ASHLEY, BOYER DOLINGER | 1 | 12.5% | +9.8% |
| KARUNASENA, ENUSHA | 1 | 25.0% | +100.0% |
| ELHILO, EISA B | 1 | 82.9% | +16.2% |
| HARRIS, BRITTANY SHARON | 1 | 48.7% | +35.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18031323 | LAUNDRY DETERGENT COMPOSITION | ELHILO, EISA B | 131d overdue |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18767410 | DISPENSER FOR TREATING A TEXTILE | BELL, SPENCER E | 9d |
| 18611355 | HAIR REMOVAL DEVICE | ASHLEY, BOYER DOLINGER | 14d |
| 18478450 | COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS TO REDUCE MASTITIS IN DAIRY ANIMALS | KARUNASENA, ENUSHA | 68d |
| 18742481 | LAUNDRY DETERGENT ARTICLE | DOUYON, LORNA M | — |
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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18031323 | LAUNDRY DETERGENT COMPOSITION | ELHILO, EISA B | 131d overdue |
| 18767410 | DISPENSER FOR TREATING A TEXTILE | BELL, SPENCER E | 9d |
| 18478450 | COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS TO REDUCE MASTITIS IN DAIRY ANIMALS | KARUNASENA, ENUSHA | 68d |
| 18873598 | FOAM CONDITIONING COMPOSITION | CHANG, KYUNG SOOK | — |
| 18807241 | POLYMER COMPOSITIONS AND PRODUCTS FORMED THEREWITH | SASTRI, SATYA B | — |
| 18776503 | METHODS FOR PREPARING COMPOUNDED POLYMER LATEX COMPOSITIONS AND CONDOMS FORMED THEREFROM EXHIBITING IMPROVED MECHANICAL PROPERTIES | HAWTHORNE, OPHELIA ALTHEA | — |
| 18742481 | LAUNDRY DETERGENT ARTICLE | DOUYON, LORNA M | — |
| 17751459 | LAUNDRY DETERGENT ARTICLE | HARRIS, BRITTANY SHARON | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1761 | 3 |
| 1613 | 1 |
| 1762 | 1 |
| 3786 | 1 |
| 1711 | 1 |
| 3724 | 1 |
| 1653 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18873598 | FOAM CONDITIONING COMPOSITION | CHANG, KYUNG SOOK | 1613 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 10, 2024 |
| 18807241 | POLYMER COMPOSITIONS AND PRODUCTS FORMED THEREWITH | SASTRI, SATYA B | 1762 | §102§103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 16, 2024 |
| 18776503 | METHODS FOR PREPARING COMPOUNDED POLYMER LATEX COMPOSITIONS AND CONDOMS FORMED THEREFROM EXHIBITING IMPROVED MECHANICAL PROPERTIES | HAWTHORNE, OPHELIA ALTHEA | 3786 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 18, 2024 |
| 18767410 | DISPENSER FOR TREATING A TEXTILE | BELL, SPENCER E | 1711 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 9d | Pending | Jul 09, 2024 |
| 18742481 | LAUNDRY DETERGENT ARTICLE | DOUYON, LORNA M | 1761 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 13, 2024 |
| 18611355 | HAIR REMOVAL DEVICE | ASHLEY, BOYER DOLINGER | 3724 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 14d | Pending | Mar 20, 2024 |
| 18478450 | COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS TO REDUCE MASTITIS IN DAIRY ANIMALS | KARUNASENA, ENUSHA | 1653 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 68d | Pending | Sep 29, 2023 |
| 18031323 | LAUNDRY DETERGENT COMPOSITION | ELHILO, EISA B | 1761 | §103 | Final Rejection | 131d overdue | Pending | Apr 11, 2023 |
| 17751459 | LAUNDRY DETERGENT ARTICLE | HARRIS, BRITTANY SHARON | 1761 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 23, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialChurch & Dwight Co., Inc. has 9 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 7 art units and 9 examiners.
Kyung Sook Chang has the most, with 1 of Church & Dwight Co., Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
