Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Chemistry & Materials
6 pending office actions • 5 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
DANIMER IPCO, LLC is managing 7 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These 7 actions are handled by 7 distinct examiners, indicating a one-to-one ratio between pending matters and examiners. VIVIAN CHEN is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, holding 1 pending office action. This high degree of examiner diversity means the company must manage 7 separate prosecution tracks without any overlap in personnel.
The 7 pending office actions are spread across 6 distinct art units, which is a high level of dispersion for a portfolio of this size. This suggests that the company's chemistry and materials innovations are highly varied, touching on many different technical classifications. With 7 examiners and 6 art units involved in only 7 pending actions, the prosecution landscape is exceptionally fragmented, requiring a broad and individualized approach to each application.
Practitioners should note that the lack of concentration among the 7 examiners and 6 art units prevents any significant streamlining of the prosecution process. Each of the 7 pending office actions must be addressed according to the specific requirements of a different examiner, with VIVIAN CHEN being one of those 7. This profile indicates a highly specialized and diverse set of pending matters within the chemistry sector.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 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. 3 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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 1 (17%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 5 (83%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ROBINSON, MICHAEL | 1 | 62.0% | +20.6% |
| CHEN, VIVIAN | 1 | 56.7% | +29.1% |
| LAN, YAN | 1 | 63.1% | +21.9% |
| STONEHOCKER, VIRGINIA LEE | 1 | 82.0% | +12.0% |
| KARST, DAVID THOMAS | 1 | 64.7% | +9.8% |
| JOHNSON, DANIELLE D | 1 | 45.0% | +12.9% |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18153729 | AQUEOUS COATINGS MADE FROM POLYHYDROXYALKANOATE (PHA) CAKE | KARST, DAVID THOMAS | 131d overdue |
| 18405014 | BIODEGRADABLE CONTAINER CLOSURE AND RESIN THEREFOR | LAN, YAN | 19d |
| 16880106 | CONTROLLED RELEASE BIODEGRADABLE COATINGS FOR SEEDS AND FERTILIZERS | JOHNSON, DANIELLE D | 70d |
| 18994204 | BIAXIALLY-ORIENTED BIODEGRADABLE FILM | CHEN, VIVIAN | — |
| 18153588 | POLYHYDROXYALKANOATE (PHA) CAKE | STONEHOCKER, VIRGINIA LEE | — |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18405014 | BIODEGRADABLE CONTAINER CLOSURE AND RESIN THEREFOR | LAN, YAN | 19d |
| 16880106 | CONTROLLED RELEASE BIODEGRADABLE COATINGS FOR SEEDS AND FERTILIZERS | JOHNSON, DANIELLE D | 70d |
| 18994246 | DIMENSIONALLY STABLE BIODEGRADABLE FILM | ROBINSON, MICHAEL | — |
| 18994204 | BIAXIALLY-ORIENTED BIODEGRADABLE FILM | CHEN, VIVIAN | — |
| 18153588 | POLYHYDROXYALKANOATE (PHA) CAKE | STONEHOCKER, VIRGINIA LEE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1744 | 1 |
| 1782 | 1 |
| 1766 | 1 |
| 1767 | 1 |
| 1617 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18994246 | DIMENSIONALLY STABLE BIODEGRADABLE FILM | ROBINSON, MICHAEL | 1744 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 14, 2025 |
| 18994204 | BIAXIALLY-ORIENTED BIODEGRADABLE FILM | CHEN, VIVIAN | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 14, 2025 |
| 18405014 | BIODEGRADABLE CONTAINER CLOSURE AND RESIN THEREFOR | LAN, YAN | 1782 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 19d | Pending | Jan 05, 2024 |
| 18153588 | POLYHYDROXYALKANOATE (PHA) CAKE | STONEHOCKER, VIRGINIA LEE | 1766 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 12, 2023 |
| 18153729 | AQUEOUS COATINGS MADE FROM POLYHYDROXYALKANOATE (PHA) CAKE | KARST, DAVID THOMAS | 1767 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 131d overdue | Pending | Jan 12, 2023 |
| 16880106 | CONTROLLED RELEASE BIODEGRADABLE COATINGS FOR SEEDS AND FERTILIZERS | JOHNSON, DANIELLE D | 1617 | §103§112Other | Non-Final OA | 70d | Pending | May 21, 2020 |
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