Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
4 pending office actions • 3 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Elanco Tiergesundheit AG has 3 pending office actions in Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals. The matters involve 3 distinct examiners but 2 distinct art units, so examiner coordination extends across a smaller set of technical examination locations.
HERNANDEZ, JACKSON J is the busiest listed examiner, with 1 pending matter. Counsel should tailor each response to its examiner while using the recurring art-unit structure to monitor consistency in pharmaceutical and biotechnology positions.
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 | 2 (50%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HERNANDEZ, JACKSON J | 1 | 50.7% | +39.2% |
| SONG, JIANFENG | 1 | 56.4% | +33.0% |
| RAMACHANDRAN, UMAMAHESWARI | 1 | 54.8% | +53.7% |
| STIGELL, THEODORE J | 1 | 78.3% | +14.8% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18043868 | CHEWABLE FORMULATIONS | SONG, JIANFENG | 14d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18109410 | MONENSIN LEVELS FOR MODERN DAIRY DIET | RAMACHANDRAN, UMAMAHESWARI | 99d overdue |
| 18043868 | CHEWABLE FORMULATIONS | SONG, JIANFENG | 14d |
| 17795341 | WINGED CAPSULE | STIGELL, THEODORE J | 29d |
| 18255134 | BICYCLIC DERIVATIVES | HERNANDEZ, JACKSON J | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1627 | 2 |
| 1613 | 1 |
| 3783 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18255134 | BICYCLIC DERIVATIVES | HERNANDEZ, JACKSON J | 1627 | §103DP | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 31, 2023 |
| 18043868 | CHEWABLE FORMULATIONS | SONG, JIANFENG | 1613 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 14d | Pending | Mar 02, 2023 |
| 18109410 | MONENSIN LEVELS FOR MODERN DAIRY DIET | RAMACHANDRAN, UMAMAHESWARI | 1627 | §103 | Final Rejection | 99d overdue | Pending | Feb 14, 2023 |
| 17795341 | WINGED CAPSULE | STIGELL, THEODORE J | 3783 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 29d | Pending | Jul 26, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialElanco Tiergesundheit AG has 4 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 4 examiners.
Jackson J Hernandez has the most, with 1 of Elanco Tiergesundheit AG's pending office actions.
Mostly Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals (USPTO Tech Center 1600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
