Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Chemistry & Materials
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
House Foods Corporation maintains 3 pending office actions within the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. These actions are distributed across 3 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units. This distribution shows that each pending matter is being handled by a different examiner in a different art unit, creating a broad spread of prosecution environments for the company.
The busiest examiner, STEINKE, SEAN JAMES, is responsible for 1 pending office action. The equality between the number of 3 pending office actions, 3 distinct examiners, and 3 distinct art units indicates a lack of concentration, as each of the 3 actions is isolated in its own administrative and examiner context. This variety of examiners and art units suggests that the company's biotechnology interests are being evaluated across multiple specialized groups within the office. Practitioners should note that the busiest examiner, STEINKE, SEAN JAMES, handles 1 pending office action at this time.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (67%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| STEINKE, SEAN JAMES | 1 | 12.5% | +42.9% |
| WISTNER, SARAH CLINKSCALES | 1 | 25.0% | +81.0% |
| LI, CHANGQING | 1 | 29.3% | +33.6% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17800771 | MIXED SPICE AND MASKING COMPOSITION THAT CONTAINS SAME | LI, CHANGQING | 23d overdue |
| 18028683 | EMULSIFIED COMPOSITION FOR SKIN | WISTNER, SARAH CLINKSCALES | 6d |
| 18730641 | EMULSIFIED COMPOSITION | STEINKE, SEAN JAMES | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17800771 | MIXED SPICE AND MASKING COMPOSITION THAT CONTAINS SAME | LI, CHANGQING | 23d overdue |
| 18028683 | EMULSIFIED COMPOSITION FOR SKIN | WISTNER, SARAH CLINKSCALES | 6d |
| 18730641 | EMULSIFIED COMPOSITION | STEINKE, SEAN JAMES | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1613 | 1 |
| 1616 | 1 |
| 1791 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18730641 | EMULSIFIED COMPOSITION | STEINKE, SEAN JAMES | 1613 | §102§103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 19, 2024 |
| 18028683 | EMULSIFIED COMPOSITION FOR SKIN | WISTNER, SARAH CLINKSCALES | 1616 | §102§103§112Other | Non-Final OA | 6d | Pending | Mar 27, 2023 |
| 17800771 | MIXED SPICE AND MASKING COMPOSITION THAT CONTAINS SAME | LI, CHANGQING | 1791 | §103 | Final Rejection | 23d overdue | Pending | Aug 18, 2022 |
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