Technology area: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals
6 pending office actions • 6 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Cosmax Inc. has 6 pending office actions in Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals. The matters involve 6 distinct examiners and 6 distinct art units, indicating that every pending matter is assigned across a separate examiner and technical unit.
ERICKSON, BENNETT S is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending office action. No examiner handles more than that one matter in the provided profile, so counsel should organize prosecution around application-specific records rather than a shared examiner relationship.
The distribution calls for coordinated portfolio oversight, especially when biotechnology or pharmaceutical claim themes recur across applications. Counsel can maintain consistent positions while adapting each response to the applicable examiner and art-unit context.
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 + other | 1 (17%) |
| §103 only | 4 (67%) |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ERICKSON, BENNETT S | 1 | 38.2% | +43.6% |
| GOTFREDSON, GAREN | 1 | 39.9% | +28.1% |
| KIM, DANIELLE A | 1 | 36.6% | +51.9% |
| TRAN, SUSAN T | 1 | 63.0% | +34.8% |
| YU, HONG | 1 | 31.1% | +5.7% |
| JUSTICE, GINA CHIEUN YU | 1 | 55.6% | +8.5% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18832151 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING SKIN INFORMATION ON BASIS OF SKIN MICROBIOME | ERICKSON, BENNETT S | — |
| 18760910 | ETHER/ESTER COMPOSITE POLYURETHANE FOAM COSMETIC | GOTFREDSON, GAREN | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18832151 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING SKIN INFORMATION ON BASIS OF SKIN MICROBIOME | ERICKSON, BENNETT S | — |
| 18760910 | ETHER/ESTER COMPOSITE POLYURETHANE FOAM COSMETIC | GOTFREDSON, GAREN | — |
| 18702941 | POROUS SILICA IMPREGNATED WITH EPIDERMIDIBACTERIUM KERATINI EXTRACT AND USE THEREOF FOR IMPROVING SKIN CONDITION | KIM, DANIELLE A | — |
| 18293249 | COSMETIC COMPOSITION FOR ENHANCING SKIN ABSORPTION | TRAN, SUSAN T | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3683 | 1 |
| 1619 | 1 |
| 1613 | 1 |
| 1615 | 1 |
| 1614 | 1 |
| 1617 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18832151 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING SKIN INFORMATION ON BASIS OF SKIN MICROBIOME | ERICKSON, BENNETT S | 3683 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 23, 2024 |
| 18760910 | ETHER/ESTER COMPOSITE POLYURETHANE FOAM COSMETIC | GOTFREDSON, GAREN | 1619 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 01, 2024 |
| 18702941 | POROUS SILICA IMPREGNATED WITH EPIDERMIDIBACTERIUM KERATINI EXTRACT AND USE THEREOF FOR IMPROVING SKIN CONDITION | KIM, DANIELLE A | 1613 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 19, 2024 |
| 18293249 | COSMETIC COMPOSITION FOR ENHANCING SKIN ABSORPTION | TRAN, SUSAN T | 1615 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 29, 2024 |
| 18288508 | HIGH-HARDNESS LIQUID CRYSTAL COSMETIC COMPOSITION HAVING ELASTIC TEXTURE AND METHOD FOR PREPARING SAME | YU, HONG | 1614 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 26, 2023 |
| 18214553 | COSMETIC COMPOSITION INCLUDING GARLIC EXTRACT, BLACK TEA EXTRACT, AND GUAVA EXTRACT | JUSTICE, GINA CHIEUN YU | 1617 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 27, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialCosmax Inc. has 6 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 6 art units and 6 examiners.
Bennett S Erickson has the most, with 1 of Cosmax Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals (USPTO Tech Center 1600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
