Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Chemistry & Materials
4 pending office actions • 3 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Galaxy Surfactants Ltd. has 4 pending office actions in Chemistry & Materials. The matters involve 4 examiners and 3 art units, indicating multiple examination contacts with some art-unit overlap.
DOUYON, LORNA M is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. Counsel should coordinate terminology across the portfolio while adapting arguments to the individual examiners and shared classification context.
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 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DOUYON, LORNA M | 1 | 56.8% | +72.1% |
| ELHILO, EISA B | 1 | 82.9% | +16.2% |
| MAEWALL, SNIGDHA | 1 | 58.8% | +10.5% |
| AGGARWAL, SAHIL CHANDER | 1 | 66.7% | +0.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18756684 | LABSA FREE DISHWASH CLEANSING CONCENTRATE | ELHILO, EISA B | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18891560 | ENCAPSULATED ENZYME IN SURFACTANT SYSTEM FOR HOME CARE APPLICATIONS | DOUYON, LORNA M | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18891560 | ENCAPSULATED ENZYME IN SURFACTANT SYSTEM FOR HOME CARE APPLICATIONS | DOUYON, LORNA M | — |
| 18756684 | LABSA FREE DISHWASH CLEANSING CONCENTRATE | ELHILO, EISA B | — |
| 18441107 | CONCENTRATED RECONSTITUTABLE LIQUID COMPOSITIONS FOR PERSONAL CARE | MAEWALL, SNIGDHA | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1761 | 2 |
| 1612 | 1 |
| 1623 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18891560 | ENCAPSULATED ENZYME IN SURFACTANT SYSTEM FOR HOME CARE APPLICATIONS | DOUYON, LORNA M | 1761 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 20, 2024 |
| 18756684 | LABSA FREE DISHWASH CLEANSING CONCENTRATE | ELHILO, EISA B | 1761 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 27, 2024 |
| 18441107 | CONCENTRATED RECONSTITUTABLE LIQUID COMPOSITIONS FOR PERSONAL CARE | MAEWALL, SNIGDHA | 1612 | DP | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 14, 2024 |
| 18342845 | SUSTAINABLE PROCESS FOR PREPARATION OF PHOSPHORIC MONOESTERS AND SALTS THEREOF | AGGARWAL, SAHIL CHANDER | 1623 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 28, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialGalaxy Surfactants Ltd. has 4 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 4 examiners.
Lorna M Douyon has the most, with 1 of Galaxy Surfactants Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
