Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Hayashibara Co. Ltd. currently has 2 pending office actions within the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. The prosecution of these matters involves 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. This structure shows that the company's current legal challenges are spread across different specialized units within the patent office, rather than being concentrated in one area.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is JACKSON-TONGUE, LAKIA J, who is currently managing 1 pending office action. The involvement of 2 distinct art units indicates that the underlying technologies are categorized into different examination specialties within the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals field.
The use of 2 distinct examiners for 2 pending office actions means that no single examiner is handling multiple cases for the company at this time. This distribution requires the company to navigate the specific preferences and requirements of different examiners across their active filings.
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 |
|---|---|
| §102 only | 1 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| JACKSON-TONGUE, LAKIA J | 1 | 69.0% | +20.8% |
| WISTNER, SARAH CLINKSCALES | 1 | 25.0% | +81.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17904420 | A stabilizer for an emulsion composition | WISTNER, SARAH CLINKSCALES | 31d overdue |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17904420 | A stabilizer for an emulsion composition | WISTNER, SARAH CLINKSCALES | 31d overdue |
| 18259124 | METHOD FOR IMPROVING PRODUCTIVITY IN LIVESTOCK AND/OR POULTRY AND METHOD FOR IMPROVING INTESTINAL FLORA IN LIVESTOCK AND/OR POULTRY | JACKSON-TONGUE, LAKIA J | 27d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1645 | 1 |
| 1616 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18259124 | METHOD FOR IMPROVING PRODUCTIVITY IN LIVESTOCK AND/OR POULTRY AND METHOD FOR IMPROVING INTESTINAL FLORA IN LIVESTOCK AND/OR POULTRY | JACKSON-TONGUE, LAKIA J | 1645 | §102 | Final Rejection | 27d | Pending | Jun 23, 2023 |
| 17904420 | A stabilizer for an emulsion composition | WISTNER, SARAH CLINKSCALES | 1616 | §102§112 | Final Rejection | 31d overdue | Pending | Aug 17, 2022 |
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