Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
17 pending office actions • 13 art units • 17 examiners • 0 of 17 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 49 patents granted in the last 365 days
ELC Management LLC is currently managing 16 pending office actions within the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. These 16 actions are spread across 16 distinct examiners, meaning each examiner is handling exactly one case. The portfolio is further distributed across 13 distinct art units, showing a high degree of technical and administrative diversity in their current patent applications.
PATEL, BRIJESH V is the busiest examiner for the company, with 1 pending office action. The equal count of 16 pending actions and 16 distinct examiners across this portfolio is a notable characteristic. This suggests that the company's biotech filings are diverse enough to trigger reviews from 13 different specialized groups within the USPTO, each with its own specific focus.
Such a wide spread requires the company to adapt to many different sets of examiner expectations and art unit practices simultaneously. This decentralized structure means that no single examiner's decision-making process dominates the company's prosecution experience. Instead, the company must maintain a versatile strategy to address the unique requirements of many different administrative units within the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals 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 |
|---|---|
| §101 only | 1 (6%) |
| §101 + other | 3 (18%) |
| §103 only | 7 (41%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 6 (35%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PATEL, BRIJESH V | 1 | 64.7% | +40.6% |
| PATTERSON, MICHAEL CHRISTOPHER | 1 | 48.6% | +39.3% |
| ANTHOPOLOS, PETER | 1 | 57.4% | +58.8% |
| VAUGHN, ALEXANDER JOSEPH | 1 | 77.4% | +26.1% |
| TRUONG, KARL DUC | 1 | 63.5% | +36.1% |
| MASTERS, STEVEN YANG | 1 | — | — |
| PURDY, KYLE A | 1 | 41.0% | +35.9% |
| BIANCAMANO, ALYSSA N | 1 | 55.9% | +36.4% |
| WEI, XIAOMING | 1 | 82.0% | +17.3% |
| SEREBOFF, NEAL | 1 | 28.2% | +33.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18748879 | User Feedback Interfaces for Facial Map Points to Improve and Enhance Augmented Reality for Cosmetics Try-On | WEI, XIAOMING | 16d |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18954626 | COLOR-CHANGING LIPSTICK DEVICE AND METHODS OF USE | PATTERSON, MICHAEL CHRISTOPHER | — |
| 18954915 | Anhydrous Sunscreen Compositions With enhanced Ultraviolet Protection | ANTHOPOLOS, PETER | — |
| 18830283 | Augmented Reality Glasses for Enhanced Vision and Integration in Beauty Product Application | MASTERS, STEVEN YANG | — |
| 18756643 | Virtual and Augmented Reality Application Store for Makeup Artists | BIANCAMANO, ALYSSA N | — |
| 18743404 | PERSONALIZED CARE RECOMMENDATION USING GENETICS ANALYSIS | SEREBOFF, NEAL | — |
| 18708394 | EXTRACT OF YOUNG FLOWERS AND COSMETIC USES | CAIN, JENNIFER LYNN | — |
| 18705505 | Actuator For A Dual Pump Dispensing System | COOLEY, CHARLES E | — |
| 18637076 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR LOCATION-BASED ACTIVATION AND/OR APPLICATION OF MAKEUP LOOKS | WANG, ZHIPENG | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18748879 | User Feedback Interfaces for Facial Map Points to Improve and Enhance Augmented Reality for Cosmetics Try-On | WEI, XIAOMING | 16d |
| 19078861 | Refillable Cosmetic Product | PATEL, BRIJESH V | — |
| 18954626 | COLOR-CHANGING LIPSTICK DEVICE AND METHODS OF USE | PATTERSON, MICHAEL CHRISTOPHER | — |
| 18954915 | Anhydrous Sunscreen Compositions With enhanced Ultraviolet Protection | ANTHOPOLOS, PETER | — |
| 18919023 | SYSTEM FOR COSMETIC APPLICATION SKILL IMPROVEMENT | VAUGHN, ALEXANDER JOSEPH | — |
| 18917402 | REAL-TIME AUGMENTED REALITY COSMETIC SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR VIDEO CALLS | TRUONG, KARL DUC | — |
| 18832510 | A Composition Against Osmotic Stress | PURDY, KYLE A | — |
| 18756643 | Virtual and Augmented Reality Application Store for Makeup Artists | BIANCAMANO, ALYSSA N | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3754 | 2 |
| 1611 | 2 |
| 3715 | 2 |
| 3736 | 1 |
| 2675 | 1 |
| 2614 | 1 |
| 2611 | 1 |
| 3683 | 1 |
| 1655 | 1 |
| 2115 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19078861 | Refillable Cosmetic Product | PATEL, BRIJESH V | 3736 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 13, 2025 |
| 18954626 | COLOR-CHANGING LIPSTICK DEVICE AND METHODS OF USE | PATTERSON, MICHAEL CHRISTOPHER | 3754 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 21, 2024 |
| 18954915 | Anhydrous Sunscreen Compositions With enhanced Ultraviolet Protection | ANTHOPOLOS, PETER | 1611 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 21, 2024 |
| 18919023 | SYSTEM FOR COSMETIC APPLICATION SKILL IMPROVEMENT | VAUGHN, ALEXANDER JOSEPH | 2675 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 17, 2024 |
| 18917402 | REAL-TIME AUGMENTED REALITY COSMETIC SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR VIDEO CALLS | TRUONG, KARL DUC | 2614 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 16, 2024 |
| 18830283 | Augmented Reality Glasses for Enhanced Vision and Integration in Beauty Product Application | MASTERS, STEVEN YANG | 3715 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 10, 2024 |
| 18832510 | A Composition Against Osmotic Stress | PURDY, KYLE A | 1611 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 24, 2024 |
| 18756643 | Virtual and Augmented Reality Application Store for Makeup Artists | BIANCAMANO, ALYSSA N | 3715 | §101§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 27, 2024 |
| 18748879 | User Feedback Interfaces for Facial Map Points to Improve and Enhance Augmented Reality for Cosmetics Try-On | WEI, XIAOMING | 2611 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 16d | Pending | Jun 20, 2024 |
| 18743404 | PERSONALIZED CARE RECOMMENDATION USING GENETICS ANALYSIS | SEREBOFF, NEAL | 3683 | §101§102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 14, 2024 |
| 18708394 | EXTRACT OF YOUNG FLOWERS AND COSMETIC USES | CAIN, JENNIFER LYNN | 1655 | §101Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 08, 2024 |
| 18705505 | Actuator For A Dual Pump Dispensing System | COOLEY, CHARLES E | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 26, 2024 |
| 18637076 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR LOCATION-BASED ACTIVATION AND/OR APPLICATION OF MAKEUP LOOKS | WANG, ZHIPENG | 2115 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 16, 2024 |
| 18605065 | Dispensing Mechanism for Cosmetic Product Container | ANGWIN, DAVID PATRICK | 3754 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 45d overdue | Pending | Mar 14, 2024 |
| 18492486 | Hair Perming Compositions With Amine Derivatives | ALAWADI, SARAH | 1619 | §103 | Final Rejection | 121d overdue | Pending | Oct 23, 2023 |
| 18199692 | Fragrance Delivery System | NGUYEN, THUKHANH T | 1743 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 19, 2023 |
| 17740274 | Compositions and Methods For the Delivery of Agents | CONIGLIO, AUDREA JUNE BUCKLEY | 1617 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 09, 2022 |
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