Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Chemistry & Materials
4 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Ethox Chemicals LLC is active in the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area with 4 pending office actions. These actions are distributed among 3 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units. This distribution shows a high ratio of art units to pending actions, suggesting that the company's intellectual property is spread across several specialized examination groups within the patent office. With 3 distinct art units involved, the prosecution strategy must account for the specific requirements of multiple technical groups despite the total number of 4 pending office actions.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is PETRITSCH, AMANDA MICHELLE, who is responsible for 2 busiest examiner pending office actions. This examiner handles a portion of the company's 4 pending office actions. The presence of 3 distinct examiners across 3 distinct art units requires a versatile approach to address the varying perspectives of the patent office staff. Practitioners should prepare for the 4 pending office actions to be reviewed under the distinct standards of these 3 distinct art units. The 3 distinct examiners will each bring a unique perspective to the pending office actions currently being prosecuted. This distribution suggests that the company must maintain a flexible strategy to address the specific preferences of multiple examiners while operating within the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals field.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (75%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PETRITSCH, AMANDA MICHELLE | 2 | 57.1% | +28.1% |
| NGUYEN, NGOC-ANH THI | 1 | 28.1% | +49.8% |
| RIETH, STEPHEN EDWARD | 1 | 45.8% | +32.9% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18537353 | Synergistic Combinations for Reducing Volatility of Auxin Herbicides | NGUYEN, NGOC-ANH THI | 100d overdue |
| 18906224 | Sulfate-Free Surfactant System | PETRITSCH, AMANDA MICHELLE | — |
| 18134900 | Sulfate-Free Surfactant System | PETRITSCH, AMANDA MICHELLE | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18537353 | Synergistic Combinations for Reducing Volatility of Auxin Herbicides | NGUYEN, NGOC-ANH THI | 100d overdue |
| 17726744 | Composition and Method for Improving the Water Transport Characteristics of Hydrophobic Soils | RIETH, STEPHEN EDWARD | 77d overdue |
| 18906224 | Sulfate-Free Surfactant System | PETRITSCH, AMANDA MICHELLE | — |
| 18134900 | Sulfate-Free Surfactant System | PETRITSCH, AMANDA MICHELLE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1615 | 1 |
| 1612 | 1 |
| 1759 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18906224 | Sulfate-Free Surfactant System | PETRITSCH, AMANDA MICHELLE | — | §103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 04, 2024 |
| 18537353 | Synergistic Combinations for Reducing Volatility of Auxin Herbicides | NGUYEN, NGOC-ANH THI | 1615 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 100d overdue | Pending | Dec 12, 2023 |
| 18134900 | Sulfate-Free Surfactant System | PETRITSCH, AMANDA MICHELLE | 1612 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 14, 2023 |
| 17726744 | Composition and Method for Improving the Water Transport Characteristics of Hydrophobic Soils | RIETH, STEPHEN EDWARD | 1759 | §103 | Final Rejection | 77d overdue | Pending | Apr 22, 2022 |
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