Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals
12 pending office actions • 8 art units • 12 examiners • 0 of 12 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
Croda International plc manages a portfolio with 12 pending office actions in the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. These actions are spread across 8 distinct art units, indicating that the company's innovations are being evaluated by several different specialized technical groups. This distribution across 8 distinct art units suggests a diverse range of biotechnology and pharmaceutical technologies that require specialized review from multiple examination teams. The 12 pending office actions represent a substantial ongoing effort to protect the company's technical innovations in this sector.
BOYER, CHARLES I is the busiest examiner for the company, currently responsible for 1 pending office action. The portfolio is characterized by a high degree of examiner diversity, as there are 12 distinct examiners for the 12 pending office actions. This distribution means that every pending matter is under the review of a different individual, which ensures that no single examiner has a concentrated influence over the company's applications. By interacting with 12 distinct examiners across 8 distinct art units, the company is exposed to a variety of examination styles and interpretations of patentability.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (8%) |
| §103 only | 7 (58%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (8%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BOYER, CHARLES I | 1 | 70.4% | +19.6% |
| JAVANMARD, SAHAR | 1 | 64.8% | +34.1% |
| MCINTOSH III, TRAVISS C | 1 | 73.2% | +14.0% |
| WELLES, COLMAN THOMAS | 1 | 29.2% | +64.2% |
| BUDISALICH, ANDREW STEVEN | 1 | 81.3% | +11.7% |
| WERTZ, ASHLEE ELIZABETH | 1 | 52.9% | +42.1% |
| LIU, SUE XU | 1 | 20.9% | +18.6% |
| HOLT, ANDRIAE M | 1 | 49.3% | +22.9% |
| PIPIC, ALMA | 1 | 54.6% | +54.7% |
| KETCHAM, KAREN A | 1 | 20.0% | +38.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18005462 | COMPUTER IMPLEMENTED METHOD FOR ASSESSING THE GROWTH OF GERMINATIVE GROWTHS FROM GERMINATIVE UNITS | BUDISALICH, ANDREW STEVEN | 46d |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18029531 | SUSPENSION CONCENTRATE DISPERSANTS | WELLES, COLMAN THOMAS | 5d overdue |
| 17792551 | FILM AND SEED COATING COMPOSITION | LIU, SUE XU | 3d overdue |
| 18870936 | COMPOSITION, HOME CARE FORMULATIONS, METHOD AND USE | BOYER, CHARLES I | — |
| 18837133 | AGROCHEMICAL ADJUVANTS | JAVANMARD, SAHAR | — |
| 18573285 | SEPARATION PROCESS | MCINTOSH III, TRAVISS C | — |
| 17042632 | AGROCHEMICAL POLYMER DISPERSANTS | KETCHAM, KAREN A | — |
| 18014044 | POLYETHER PHOSPHATE ESTER COMPOUNDS, COMPOSITIONS AND USES | OLSEN, KAELEIGH ELIZABETH | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18029531 | SUSPENSION CONCENTRATE DISPERSANTS | WELLES, COLMAN THOMAS | 5d overdue |
| 17792551 | FILM AND SEED COATING COMPOSITION | LIU, SUE XU | 3d overdue |
| 17775986 | SOIL WETTER COMPOSITION | HOLT, ANDRIAE M | 27d |
| 18005462 | COMPUTER IMPLEMENTED METHOD FOR ASSESSING THE GROWTH OF GERMINATIVE GROWTHS FROM GERMINATIVE UNITS | BUDISALICH, ANDREW STEVEN | 46d |
| 18870936 | COMPOSITION, HOME CARE FORMULATIONS, METHOD AND USE | BOYER, CHARLES I | — |
| 18837133 | AGROCHEMICAL ADJUVANTS | JAVANMARD, SAHAR | — |
| 18573285 | SEPARATION PROCESS | MCINTOSH III, TRAVISS C | — |
| 17799161 | SEED COATING ADDITIVE | WERTZ, ASHLEE ELIZABETH | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1612 | 2 |
| 1614 | 2 |
| 1693 | 1 |
| 2662 | 1 |
| 1616 | 1 |
| 1617 | 1 |
| 1619 | 1 |
| 1692 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18870936 | COMPOSITION, HOME CARE FORMULATIONS, METHOD AND USE | BOYER, CHARLES I | — | §102§103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 02, 2024 |
| 18837133 | AGROCHEMICAL ADJUVANTS | JAVANMARD, SAHAR | — | §101§102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 08, 2024 |
| 18573285 | SEPARATION PROCESS | MCINTOSH III, TRAVISS C | 1693 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 21, 2023 |
| 18029531 | SUSPENSION CONCENTRATE DISPERSANTS | WELLES, COLMAN THOMAS | 1612 | §103DP | Non-Final OA | 5d overdue | Pending | Mar 30, 2023 |
| 18005462 | COMPUTER IMPLEMENTED METHOD FOR ASSESSING THE GROWTH OF GERMINATIVE GROWTHS FROM GERMINATIVE UNITS | BUDISALICH, ANDREW STEVEN | 2662 | §103 | Final Rejection | 46d | Pending | Jan 13, 2023 |
| 17799161 | SEED COATING ADDITIVE | WERTZ, ASHLEE ELIZABETH | 1612 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 11, 2022 |
| 17792551 | FILM AND SEED COATING COMPOSITION | LIU, SUE XU | 1616 | §103 | Final Rejection | 3d overdue | Pending | Jul 13, 2022 |
| 17775986 | SOIL WETTER COMPOSITION | HOLT, ANDRIAE M | 1614 | §103 | Final Rejection | 27d | Pending | May 11, 2022 |
| 17619404 | PLANT TREATMENT COMPOSITION | PIPIC, ALMA | 1617 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 15, 2021 |
| 17042632 | AGROCHEMICAL POLYMER DISPERSANTS | KETCHAM, KAREN A | 1614 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 28, 2020 |
| 18014044 | POLYETHER PHOSPHATE ESTER COMPOUNDS, COMPOSITIONS AND USES | OLSEN, KAELEIGH ELIZABETH | 1619 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 30, 2022 |
| 16760661 | 1,3-PROPYLENE ETHER DERIVED COMPOUNDS FOR PERSONAL CARE | PAGANO, ALEXANDER R | 1692 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 30, 2020 |
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