Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
4 pending office actions • 3 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Haleon US Holdings LLC has 3 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are spread across 3 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. This distribution suggests that the company's prosecution efforts are moderately diversified across different technical groups and personnel, requiring a broader approach to managing patent office interactions than a more centralized portfolio would necessitate.
The busiest examiner, ROBERTS, ANNA L, is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending action. Given that there are 3 pending office actions and 3 distinct examiners, each examiner is currently overseeing a single case. The involvement of 2 distinct art units indicates that the portfolio's current challenges are not confined to a single administrative division. Practitioners must therefore account for the nuances of 2 distinct art units while addressing the individual preferences of the distinct examiners involved in the active cases.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (25%) |
| §103 only | 2 (50%) |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ROBERTS, ANNA L | 1 | 56.7% | +38.5% |
| ORTIZ, RAFAEL ALFREDO | 1 | 61.2% | +35.2% |
| PEEBLES, KATHERINE | 1 | 35.5% | +48.6% |
| CAIN, JENNIFER LYNN | 1 | 45.0% | +70.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18852029 | METHOD FOR STRESS REDUCTION | ROBERTS, ANNA L | — |
| 18720722 | A CONNECTED CONTAINER SYSTEM | ORTIZ, RAFAEL ALFREDO | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17918790 | NASAL SPRAY FORMULATION WITH MOISTURIZING BENEFITS | PEEBLES, KATHERINE | 114d overdue |
| 17718624 | PRE-MOISTENED WIPES FOR USE IN TREATING ANAL RECTAL IRRITATIONS AND DISORDERS | CAIN, JENNIFER LYNN | 30d overdue |
| 18852029 | METHOD FOR STRESS REDUCTION | ROBERTS, ANNA L | — |
| 18720722 | A CONNECTED CONTAINER SYSTEM | ORTIZ, RAFAEL ALFREDO | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3736 | 1 |
| 1617 | 1 |
| 1655 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18852029 | METHOD FOR STRESS REDUCTION | ROBERTS, ANNA L | — | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 27, 2024 |
| 18720722 | A CONNECTED CONTAINER SYSTEM | ORTIZ, RAFAEL ALFREDO | 3736 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 17, 2024 |
| 17918790 | NASAL SPRAY FORMULATION WITH MOISTURIZING BENEFITS | PEEBLES, KATHERINE | 1617 | §103 | Final Rejection | 114d overdue | Pending | Oct 13, 2022 |
| 17718624 | PRE-MOISTENED WIPES FOR USE IN TREATING ANAL RECTAL IRRITATIONS AND DISORDERS | CAIN, JENNIFER LYNN | 1655 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 30d overdue | Pending | Apr 12, 2022 |
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