Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

DANIMER IPCO, LLC

7 pending office actions • 5 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

7
Total Pending OAs
5
Non-Final OAs
1
Final Rejections
1
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.

4
Overdue
0
Due this week
1
Due this month
0
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 (4)Due ≤ 30 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%)
7
Medium (100%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only6 (86%)
Double-patenting + other1 (14%)

Industry Mix

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

7
Life Sciences
100% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
0
Mechanical / Eng
0% 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
DAVIDSON IV, CULLEN LEE GARRETT 1 36.5% +46.7%
MIGGINS, MICHAEL C 1 80.7% +16.5%
LAN, YAN 1 62.9% +22.2%
QIAO, HUIHONG 1 70.7% +23.2%
BOYD, JENNIFER A 1 31.1% +46.5%
YAGER, JAMES C 1 39.9% +25.3%
JOHNSON, DANIELLE D 1 44.3% +12.6%

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
18408788 BIODEGRADABLE CONTAINERS AND RESIN THEREFOR MIGGINS, MICHAEL C 19d overdue

Interview Candidates (7)

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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18410154 BIODEGRADABLE LABELS AND RESIN THEREFOR DAVIDSON IV, CULLEN LEE GARRETT 84d overdue
18143797 PHA-BASED RETORT FOOD POUCH BOYD, JENNIFER A 44d overdue
18408788 BIODEGRADABLE CONTAINERS AND RESIN THEREFOR MIGGINS, MICHAEL C 19d overdue
18191265 Biodegradable Living Hinge YAGER, JAMES C 2d overdue
18405014 BIODEGRADABLE CONTAINER CLOSURE AND RESIN THEREFOR LAN, YAN 19d
16880106 CONTROLLED RELEASE BIODEGRADABLE COATINGS FOR SEEDS AND FERTILIZERS JOHNSON, DANIELLE D 70d
18401864 PRE-FORMS FOR MAKING BIODEGRADABLE CONTAINERS AND RESIN THEREFOR QIAO, HUIHONG 76d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1782 3
1767 1
1763 1
1786 1
1617 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18410154 BIODEGRADABLE LABELS AND RESIN THEREFOR DAVIDSON IV, CULLEN LEE GARRETT 1767 §103 Non-Final OA 84d overdue Pending Jan 11, 2024
18408788 BIODEGRADABLE CONTAINERS AND RESIN THEREFOR MIGGINS, MICHAEL C 1782 §103 Non-Final OA 19d overdue Pending Jan 10, 2024
18405014 BIODEGRADABLE CONTAINER CLOSURE AND RESIN THEREFOR LAN, YAN 1782 §103 Non-Final OA 19d Pending Jan 05, 2024
18401864 PRE-FORMS FOR MAKING BIODEGRADABLE CONTAINERS AND RESIN THEREFOR QIAO, HUIHONG 1763 DPOther Non-Final OA 76d Pending Jan 02, 2024
18143797 PHA-BASED RETORT FOOD POUCH BOYD, JENNIFER A 1786 §103 Non-Final OA 44d overdue Pending May 05, 2023
18191265 Biodegradable Living Hinge YAGER, JAMES C 1782 §103 Final Rejection 2d overdue Pending Mar 28, 2023
16880106 CONTROLLED RELEASE BIODEGRADABLE COATINGS FOR SEEDS AND FERTILIZERS JOHNSON, DANIELLE D 1617 §103 Non-Final OA 70d Pending May 21, 2020

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