Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 06, 2026

Coty Inc.

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

Portfolio Summary

7
Total Pending OAs
6
Non-Final OAs
0
Final Rejections
1
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

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.

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

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.

5
Hard (71%)
1
Medium (14%)
0
Easy (0%)
1
Unknown (14%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
Double-patenting + other1 (14%)
Multi-statute (no §101)5 (71%)
No statute on record1 (14%)

Industry Mix

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

4
Life Sciences
57% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
1
Mechanical / Eng
14% of docket
2
Business / Other
29% 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
CHANG, KYUNG SOOK 2 60.5% +41.0%
HINES, LATOSHA D 2 51.0% +21.9%
WALCZAK, DAVID J 1 74.2% +17.7%
MOREAU, NASHARA LOUISE 1 100.0% +0.0%
ALAWADI, SARAH 1 37.6% +38.2%

Hard Cases (5)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18851567 SQUEEZE NAIL ENAMEL BOTTLE WALCZAK, DAVID J 12d
18696874 COMPOSITIONS COMPRISING OR2AT4 AGONISTS CHANG, KYUNG SOOK 41d
18703886 TOPICAL COMPOSITION AND USES THEREOF MOREAU, NASHARA LOUISE
18696049 FRAGRANCE COMPOSITIONS AND USES THEREOF HINES, LATOSHA D
18695700 FRAGRANCE FORMULATION HINES, LATOSHA D

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
18851567 SQUEEZE NAIL ENAMEL BOTTLE WALCZAK, DAVID J 12d
18696874 COMPOSITIONS COMPRISING OR2AT4 AGONISTS CHANG, KYUNG SOOK 41d
18704769 ETHANOL-FREE FRAGRANCE CHASSIS CHANG, KYUNG SOOK
18696049 FRAGRANCE COMPOSITIONS AND USES THEREOF HINES, LATOSHA D
18695700 FRAGRANCE FORMULATION HINES, LATOSHA D
18248046 COSMETIC COMPOSITIONS AND USES THEREOF ALAWADI, SARAH

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3754 1
1616 1
1655 1
1613 1
1619 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18851567 SQUEEZE NAIL ENAMEL BOTTLE WALCZAK, DAVID J 3754 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA 12d Pending Sep 26, 2024
18704769 ETHANOL-FREE FRAGRANCE CHASSIS CHANG, KYUNG SOOK 1616 §103§112DP Non-Final OA Pending Apr 25, 2024
18703886 TOPICAL COMPOSITION AND USES THEREOF MOREAU, NASHARA LOUISE 1655 §103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Apr 23, 2024
18696874 COMPOSITIONS COMPRISING OR2AT4 AGONISTS CHANG, KYUNG SOOK 1613 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA 41d Pending Mar 28, 2024
18696049 FRAGRANCE COMPOSITIONS AND USES THEREOF HINES, LATOSHA D §102§103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Mar 27, 2024
18695700 FRAGRANCE FORMULATION HINES, LATOSHA D §102§103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Mar 26, 2024
18248046 COSMETIC COMPOSITIONS AND USES THEREOF ALAWADI, SARAH 1619 Other Non-Final OA Pending Apr 05, 2023

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