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
In The Bowl Animal Health Inc. has 3 pending office actions in Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals. The matters are assigned to 3 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units, which means every pending matter follows a separate examination path in the available data.
MITCHELL, EDWIN COLEMAN is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. Since no examiner has a larger recorded allocation, counsel should manage the docket through matter-specific preparation rather than relying on one dominant examiner relationship. Consistent treatment of animal-health terminology and supporting disclosure can still improve portfolio coherence, while responses should reflect each assigned art unit’s examination context.
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 |
|---|---|
| Double-patenting + other | 2 (67%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| VALENROD, YEVGENY | 1 | 72.5% | +25.1% |
| MITCHELL, EDWIN COLEMAN | 1 | 32.1% | +65.6% |
| LAU, JONATHAN S | 1 | 63.9% | -17.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18543614 | ORAL FELINE FEED AND METHODS FOR CONTROLLING TICK INFESTATIONS IN A FELINE | VALENROD, YEVGENY | 12d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18543539 | ORAL FELINE FEED AND METHODS FOR CONTROLLING FLEA INFESTATIONS IN A FELINE | MITCHELL, EDWIN COLEMAN | 5d overdue |
| 18543614 | ORAL FELINE FEED AND METHODS FOR CONTROLLING TICK INFESTATIONS IN A FELINE | VALENROD, YEVGENY | 12d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1628 | 1 |
| 1619 | 1 |
| 1793 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18543614 | ORAL FELINE FEED AND METHODS FOR CONTROLLING TICK INFESTATIONS IN A FELINE | VALENROD, YEVGENY | 1628 | §102§103§112Other | Final Rejection | 12d | Pending | Dec 18, 2023 |
| 18543539 | ORAL FELINE FEED AND METHODS FOR CONTROLLING FLEA INFESTATIONS IN A FELINE | MITCHELL, EDWIN COLEMAN | 1619 | §103DP | Final Rejection | 5d overdue | Pending | Dec 18, 2023 |
| 18543411 | ORAL FELINE FEED AND METHODS FOR CONTROLLING FLEA INFESTATIONS IN A FELINE | LAU, JONATHAN S | 1793 | §103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 18, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialIn The Bowl Animal Health Inc. has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 3 examiners.
Yevgeny Valenrod has the most, with 1 of In The Bowl Animal Health Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals (USPTO Tech Center 1600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
