Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Chemistry & Materials
4 pending office actions • 4 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Gs Caltex Corporation has 4 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are handled by 4 distinct examiners, meaning each pending case is assigned to a different individual. This distribution is mirrored in the 4 distinct art units involved, indicating a highly decentralized prosecution process where each action is in a separate technical group within the chemistry sector.
O'HERN, BRENT T is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, managing 1 busiest examiner pending office action. This matches the workload of the other distinct examiners, as the 4 total pending office actions are spread evenly. For practitioners, this means the company's current patent activity requires coordination across 4 distinct examiners and 4 distinct art units. This structure suggests that the company is pursuing a diverse range of technical claims, as each of the 4 pending office actions is being evaluated independently by a different examiner in a different art unit.
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 | 1 (25%) |
| §102 only | 1 (25%) |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| O'HERN, BRENT T | 1 | 78.5% | +19.8% |
| MISHRA, DEEPA | 1 | 29.3% | +35.2% |
| RAMIREZ, DELIA M | 1 | 65.1% | +56.3% |
| SINGH, PREM C | 1 | 59.0% | +33.1% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18691728 | RECOMBINANT MICROORGANISM WITH CONTROLLED ABILITY TO PRODUCE POLYOLS OR EXOPOLYMERS | MISHRA, DEEPA | 22d |
| 18285340 | RECOMBINANT MICROORGANISM FOR PRODUCING 2,3-BUTANEDIOL WITH REDUCED BY-PRODUCT PRODUCTION AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING 2,3-BUTANEDIOL BY USING SAME | RAMIREZ, DELIA 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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18691728 | RECOMBINANT MICROORGANISM WITH CONTROLLED ABILITY TO PRODUCE POLYOLS OR EXOPOLYMERS | MISHRA, DEEPA | 22d |
| 18898964 | SOLVENT COMPOSITION FOR NATURAL MATERIAL EXTRACTION | O'HERN, BRENT T | 39d |
| 18109444 | METHOD FOR PREPARING ALKYL CARBOXYLIC ACID ESTER AND APPARATUS FOR PREPARING ALKYL CARBOXYLIC ACID ESTER | SINGH, PREM C | 75d |
| 18285340 | RECOMBINANT MICROORGANISM FOR PRODUCING 2,3-BUTANEDIOL WITH REDUCED BY-PRODUCT PRODUCTION AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING 2,3-BUTANEDIOL BY USING SAME | RAMIREZ, DELIA M | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1793 | 1 |
| 1657 | 1 |
| 1652 | 1 |
| 1771 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18898964 | SOLVENT COMPOSITION FOR NATURAL MATERIAL EXTRACTION | O'HERN, BRENT T | 1793 | §102 | Final Rejection | 39d | Pending | Sep 27, 2024 |
| 18691728 | RECOMBINANT MICROORGANISM WITH CONTROLLED ABILITY TO PRODUCE POLYOLS OR EXOPOLYMERS | MISHRA, DEEPA | 1657 | §102§103DP | Final Rejection | 22d | Pending | Apr 11, 2024 |
| 18285340 | RECOMBINANT MICROORGANISM FOR PRODUCING 2,3-BUTANEDIOL WITH REDUCED BY-PRODUCT PRODUCTION AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING 2,3-BUTANEDIOL BY USING SAME | RAMIREZ, DELIA M | 1652 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 02, 2023 |
| 18109444 | METHOD FOR PREPARING ALKYL CARBOXYLIC ACID ESTER AND APPARATUS FOR PREPARING ALKYL CARBOXYLIC ACID ESTER | SINGH, PREM C | 1771 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 75d | Pending | Feb 14, 2023 |
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