Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Church & Dwight Co. Inc.

7 pending office actions • 5 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 17 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

7
Total Pending OAs
5
Non-Final OAs
2
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 7 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

2
Overdue
0
Due this week
2
Due this month
1
Due in next 60 days
2
Due later

Deadline Fire Line

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. 7 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (2)Due ≤ 30 days (2)Due ≤ 60 days (1)Due later (2)

Case Difficulty Mix

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.

0
Hard (0%)
6
Medium (86%)
0
Easy (0%)
1
Unknown (14%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only6 (86%)
No statute on record1 (14%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

6
Life Sciences
86% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
1
Mechanical / Eng
14% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

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.

70 h
Manual time on pending OAs
14 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
24 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.6 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
BELL, SPENCER E 1 63.6% +12.0%
LIN, DEBORAH 1 16.7% +90.9%
DOUYON, LORNA M 1 56.9% +71.8%
KARUNASENA, ENUSHA 1
ELHILO, EISA B 1 83.2% +15.8%
MRUK, BRIAN P 1 74.2% +27.5%
PARK, HAEJIN S 1 55.3% +37.9%

Quick Wins (1)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18031323 LAUNDRY DETERGENT COMPOSITION ELHILO, EISA B 131d overdue

Hard Cases (1)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18611355 HAIR REMOVAL DEVICE LIN, DEBORAH 14d

Interview Candidates (6)

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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18031323 LAUNDRY DETERGENT COMPOSITION ELHILO, EISA B 131d overdue
18538466 LAUNDRY DETERGENT COMPOSITION DOUYON, LORNA M 105d overdue
18767410 DISPENSER FOR TREATING A TEXTILE BELL, SPENCER E 9d
18611355 HAIR REMOVAL DEVICE LIN, DEBORAH 14d
18029291 COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS USING SOIL RELEASE POLYMERS MRUK, BRIAN P 60d
17238882 HOLLOW CORE GRANULES, PRODUCTS INCORPORATING THE GRANULES, AND METHODS OF PREPARING THE GRANULES PARK, HAEJIN S 84d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1761 3
1711 1
3724 1
1653 1
1614 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18767410 DISPENSER FOR TREATING A TEXTILE BELL, SPENCER E 1711 §103 Non-Final OA 9d Pending Jul 09, 2024
18611355 HAIR REMOVAL DEVICE LIN, DEBORAH 3724 §103 Non-Final OA 14d Pending Mar 20, 2024
18538466 LAUNDRY DETERGENT COMPOSITION DOUYON, LORNA M 1761 Other Non-Final OA 105d overdue Pending Dec 13, 2023
18478450 COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS TO REDUCE MASTITIS IN DAIRY ANIMALS KARUNASENA, ENUSHA 1653 §103 Final Rejection 68d Pending Sep 29, 2023
18031323 LAUNDRY DETERGENT COMPOSITION ELHILO, EISA B 1761 §103 Final Rejection 131d overdue Pending Apr 11, 2023
18029291 COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS USING SOIL RELEASE POLYMERS MRUK, BRIAN P 1761 §103 Non-Final OA 60d Pending Mar 29, 2023
17238882 HOLLOW CORE GRANULES, PRODUCTS INCORPORATING THE GRANULES, AND METHODS OF PREPARING THE GRANULES PARK, HAEJIN S 1614 §103 Non-Final OA 84d Pending Apr 23, 2021

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