Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Kabushiki Kaisha Yakult Honsha

4 pending office actions • 4 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

4
Total Pending OAs
1
Non-Final OAs
3
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

1
Overdue
1
Due this week
1
Due this month
1
Due in next 60 days
0
Due later

Deadline Fire Line

Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (1)Due ≤ 7 days (1)Due ≤ 30 days (1)Due ≤ 60 days (1)

Case Difficulty Mix

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.

0
Hard (0%)
4
Medium (100%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only4 (100%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

4
Life Sciences
100% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
0
Mechanical / Eng
0% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

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.

40 h
Manual time on pending OAs
8 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
14 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.3 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
SLOUP IV, RUDOLPH EDWARD 1 100.0% +0.0%
KOROTCHKINA, LIOUBOV G 1 28.0% +59.9%
TURNER, FELICIA C 1 26.0% +30.6%
EDWARDS, JESSICA FAYE 1 44.2% +46.9%

Quick Wins (1)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18562604 METHOD FOR DETECTING LIVE LACTIC ACID BACTERIA WITH CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM ACTIVITY SLOUP IV, RUDOLPH EDWARD 14d

Hard Cases (2)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
17599098 METHOD FOR PRODUCING LACTIC ACID BACTERIUM FERMENTATION FOOD PRODUCT TURNER, FELICIA C 5d
18253956 METHOD FOR COLLECTING CELLS OF MICROORGANISM IN SPECIMEN KOROTCHKINA, LIOUBOV G 35d

Interview Candidates (3)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
17436893 SELECTION MEDIUM FOR BACTERIA BELONGING TO GENUS PSEUDOMONAS AND USE THEREOF EDWARDS, JESSICA FAYE 30d overdue
17599098 METHOD FOR PRODUCING LACTIC ACID BACTERIUM FERMENTATION FOOD PRODUCT TURNER, FELICIA C 5d
18253956 METHOD FOR COLLECTING CELLS OF MICROORGANISM IN SPECIMEN KOROTCHKINA, LIOUBOV G 35d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1645 1
1653 1
1793 1
1657 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18562604 METHOD FOR DETECTING LIVE LACTIC ACID BACTERIA WITH CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM ACTIVITY SLOUP IV, RUDOLPH EDWARD 1645 §103 Non-Final OA 14d Pending Nov 20, 2023
18253956 METHOD FOR COLLECTING CELLS OF MICROORGANISM IN SPECIMEN KOROTCHKINA, LIOUBOV G 1653 §103 Final Rejection 35d Pending May 23, 2023
17599098 METHOD FOR PRODUCING LACTIC ACID BACTERIUM FERMENTATION FOOD PRODUCT TURNER, FELICIA C 1793 §103 Final Rejection 5d Pending Sep 28, 2021
17436893 SELECTION MEDIUM FOR BACTERIA BELONGING TO GENUS PSEUDOMONAS AND USE THEREOF EDWARDS, JESSICA FAYE 1657 §103 Final Rejection 30d overdue Pending Sep 07, 2021

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