Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Guilin Layn Natural Ingredients Corp. currently has 1 pending office action within the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. This matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, STEVENS, MARK V, and is located in 1 distinct art unit. STEVENS, MARK V is the busiest examiner with 1 busiest examiner pending action, representing the entire current workload for this portfolio.
The presence of 1 pending office action indicates a focused prosecution effort. Because the portfolio involves only 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, the strategy is entirely dependent on the specific tendencies of a single individual. There are no other pending matters in the data to provide a baseline for comparison within the company's own history. Practitioners should focus on the historical patterns of STEVENS, MARK V and the specific standards of the 1 art unit involved. This consolidation simplifies the administrative tracking of the portfolio but also means that progress is tied to a single point of review for the 1 pending office action.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (100%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| STEVENS, MARK V | 1 | 65.5% | +41.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18725138 | SWEETENED COMPOSITION AND PREPARATION METHOD AND USE THEREOF | STEVENS, MARK V | — |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18725138 | SWEETENED COMPOSITION AND PREPARATION METHOD AND USE THEREOF | STEVENS, MARK V | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1613 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18725138 | SWEETENED COMPOSITION AND PREPARATION METHOD AND USE THEREOF | STEVENS, MARK V | 1613 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 28, 2024 |
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