Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Chemistry & Materials
11 pending office actions • 6 art units • 10 examiners • 0 of 11 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Firmenich Incorporated has 11 pending office actions in Chemistry & Materials. The matters involve 10 examiners and 6 art units, showing a broad examiner footprint with more than one matter assigned within at least some examination groupings.
LI, CHANGQING is the busiest examiner, with 2 pending matters. That concentration is limited relative to the overall docket, so counsel should combine portfolio-level tracking with individualized responses.
The six-art-unit distribution supports reviewing office-action themes by technical examination group. Shared disclosure or claim issues may be managed consistently, but the examiner assignments indicate that response tactics should not be assumed to transfer unchanged.
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 + other | 1 (9%) |
| §103 only | 5 (45%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 5 (45%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LI, CHANGQING | 2 | 29.2% | +33.1% |
| LIU, DEBORAH YANG-HAO | 1 | 8.9% | +12.3% |
| GWARTNEY, ELIZABETH A | 1 | 36.0% | +34.9% |
| PRAKASH, SUBBALAKSHMI | 1 | 45.6% | +36.2% |
| MORNHINWEG, JEFFREY P | 1 | 36.7% | +32.2% |
| MERCHLINSKY, JOSEPH CULLEN | 1 | 5.9% | -6.3% |
| ROBERTS, LEZAH | 1 | 48.6% | +35.7% |
| KAUFMAN, CLAIRE M | 1 | 63.3% | +51.0% |
| JACOBSON, MICHELE LYNN | 1 | 28.1% | +33.9% |
| MCNEIL, JENNIFER C | 1 | 23.7% | +20.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18562730 | POLYCATIONIC SALTS OF PHENOLIC COMPOUNDS AND USES THEREOF | MERCHLINSKY, JOSEPH CULLEN | 5d |
| 18271414 | SWEETENER COMPOSITIONS COMPRISING MOGROSIDES AND USES THEREOF | JACOBSON, MICHELE LYNN | 50d |
| 18862600 | SATURATED FATTY ACIDS AND THEIR USE TO MODIFY TASTE | LIU, DEBORAH YANG-HAO | — |
| 18862596 | UNSATURATED FATTY ACIDS AND THEIR USE TO MODIFY TASTE | GWARTNEY, ELIZABETH A | — |
| 18843018 | SWEETENER COMPOSITIONS | LI, CHANGQING | — |
| 18293221 | Use of Vanillyl Ethers to Modify Flavor of Distilled Spirits | LI, CHANGQING | — |
| 18558528 | CELLS EXPRESSING BITTER TASTE RECEPTORS AND USES THEREOF | KAUFMAN, CLAIRE M | — |
| 18271406 | SWEETENER COMPOSITIONS COMPRISING MOGROSIDES AND USES THEREOF | MCNEIL, JENNIFER C | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18562250 | COMPOSITIONS THAT ENHANCE THE COOLING EFFECT | ROBERTS, LEZAH | 24d overdue |
| 18271414 | SWEETENER COMPOSITIONS COMPRISING MOGROSIDES AND USES THEREOF | JACOBSON, MICHELE LYNN | 50d |
| 18862600 | SATURATED FATTY ACIDS AND THEIR USE TO MODIFY TASTE | LIU, DEBORAH YANG-HAO | — |
| 18862596 | UNSATURATED FATTY ACIDS AND THEIR USE TO MODIFY TASTE | GWARTNEY, ELIZABETH A | — |
| 18843018 | SWEETENER COMPOSITIONS | LI, CHANGQING | — |
| 18835419 | FLAVANONE COMPOUNDS AND THEIR USE AS FLAVOR MODIFIERS | PRAKASH, SUBBALAKSHMI | — |
| 18293221 | Use of Vanillyl Ethers to Modify Flavor of Distilled Spirits | LI, CHANGQING | — |
| 18563462 | MOGROSIDE COMPOUNDS AND THEIR COMESTIBLE USE | MORNHINWEG, JEFFREY P | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1791 | 3 |
| 1793 | 3 |
| 1759 | 1 |
| 1612 | 1 |
| 1674 | 1 |
| 1723 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18862600 | SATURATED FATTY ACIDS AND THEIR USE TO MODIFY TASTE | LIU, DEBORAH YANG-HAO | 1791 | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 04, 2024 |
| 18862596 | UNSATURATED FATTY ACIDS AND THEIR USE TO MODIFY TASTE | GWARTNEY, ELIZABETH A | 1759 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 04, 2024 |
| 18843018 | SWEETENER COMPOSITIONS | LI, CHANGQING | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 30, 2024 |
| 18835419 | FLAVANONE COMPOUNDS AND THEIR USE AS FLAVOR MODIFIERS | PRAKASH, SUBBALAKSHMI | 1793 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 02, 2024 |
| 18293221 | Use of Vanillyl Ethers to Modify Flavor of Distilled Spirits | LI, CHANGQING | 1791 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 29, 2024 |
| 18563462 | MOGROSIDE COMPOUNDS AND THEIR COMESTIBLE USE | MORNHINWEG, JEFFREY P | 1793 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 22, 2023 |
| 18562730 | POLYCATIONIC SALTS OF PHENOLIC COMPOUNDS AND USES THEREOF | MERCHLINSKY, JOSEPH CULLEN | 1791 | §103 | Final Rejection | 5d | Pending | Nov 20, 2023 |
| 18562250 | COMPOSITIONS THAT ENHANCE THE COOLING EFFECT | ROBERTS, LEZAH | 1612 | §103 | Final Rejection | 24d overdue | Pending | Nov 17, 2023 |
| 18558528 | CELLS EXPRESSING BITTER TASTE RECEPTORS AND USES THEREOF | KAUFMAN, CLAIRE M | 1674 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 01, 2023 |
| 18271414 | SWEETENER COMPOSITIONS COMPRISING MOGROSIDES AND USES THEREOF | JACOBSON, MICHELE LYNN | 1793 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | 50d | Pending | Jul 07, 2023 |
| 18271406 | SWEETENER COMPOSITIONS COMPRISING MOGROSIDES AND USES THEREOF | MCNEIL, JENNIFER C | 1723 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 07, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialFirmenich Incorporated has 11 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 6 art units and 10 examiners.
Changqing Li has the most, with 2 of Firmenich Incorporated's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
