Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Chemistry & Materials
7 pending office actions • 5 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Kabushiki Kaisha Yakult Honsha maintains a portfolio in the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. There are currently 7 pending office actions. These actions are distributed among 7 distinct examiners, meaning every pending action is under the review of a different individual.
The portfolio spans 5 distinct art units, showing a relatively broad technical footprint within the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals sector. KERSHAW, KELLY P is the busiest examiner, though this examiner only has 1 busiest examiner pending action. This reflects an even distribution of the 7 pending office actions across the 7 distinct examiners.
Practitioners should note the high level of examiner diversity. With 7 distinct examiners and 5 distinct art units, the prosecution of the 7 pending office actions requires managing different sets of examiner preferences. No single examiner, including KERSHAW, KELLY P, dominates the current workload, as each holds only 1 busiest examiner pending action.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 | 2 (29%) |
| §103 only | 2 (29%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (43%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KERSHAW, KELLY P | 1 | 17.7% | +16.0% |
| ARIANI, KADE | 1 | 74.9% | +32.4% |
| OGUNBIYI, OLUWATOSIN A | 1 | 63.7% | +41.4% |
| CRUM, MARY ABOU NADER | 1 | 40.4% | +65.0% |
| KOROTCHKINA, LIOUBOV G | 1 | 29.5% | +67.7% |
| LACHICA, ERICSON M | 1 | 30.0% | +35.4% |
| TURNER, FELICIA C | 1 | 26.3% | +30.1% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17599098 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING LACTIC ACID BACTERIUM FERMENTATION FOOD PRODUCT | TURNER, FELICIA C | 5d |
| 18562604 | METHOD FOR DETECTING LIVE LACTIC ACID BACTERIA WITH CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM ACTIVITY | CRUM, MARY ABOU NADER | 14d |
| 18253956 | METHOD FOR COLLECTING CELLS OF MICROORGANISM IN SPECIMEN | KOROTCHKINA, LIOUBOV G | 35d |
| 18849788 | FERMENTED FOOD AND PRODUCTION METHOD THEREOF | KERSHAW, KELLY P | — |
| 18706814 | METHOD FOR DETERMINING RISK OF ADVERSE EVENT | ARIANI, KADE | — |
| 18705636 | ENHANCER OF NUMBER OF TCR CLONES | OGUNBIYI, OLUWATOSIN A | — |
| 17775775 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING FERMENTED MILK CONTAINING OLIGOSACCHARIDES | LACHICA, ERICSON M | — |
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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17599098 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING LACTIC ACID BACTERIUM FERMENTATION FOOD PRODUCT | TURNER, FELICIA C | 5d |
| 18562604 | METHOD FOR DETECTING LIVE LACTIC ACID BACTERIA WITH CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM ACTIVITY | CRUM, MARY ABOU NADER | 14d |
| 18253956 | METHOD FOR COLLECTING CELLS OF MICROORGANISM IN SPECIMEN | KOROTCHKINA, LIOUBOV G | 35d |
| 18849788 | FERMENTED FOOD AND PRODUCTION METHOD THEREOF | KERSHAW, KELLY P | — |
| 18706814 | METHOD FOR DETERMINING RISK OF ADVERSE EVENT | ARIANI, KADE | — |
| 18705636 | ENHANCER OF NUMBER OF TCR CLONES | OGUNBIYI, OLUWATOSIN A | — |
| 17775775 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING FERMENTED MILK CONTAINING OLIGOSACCHARIDES | LACHICA, ERICSON M | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1645 | 2 |
| 1651 | 1 |
| 1653 | 1 |
| 1792 | 1 |
| 1793 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18849788 | FERMENTED FOOD AND PRODUCTION METHOD THEREOF | KERSHAW, KELLY P | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 23, 2024 |
| 18706814 | METHOD FOR DETERMINING RISK OF ADVERSE EVENT | ARIANI, KADE | 1651 | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 02, 2024 |
| 18705636 | ENHANCER OF NUMBER OF TCR CLONES | OGUNBIYI, OLUWATOSIN A | 1645 | §101§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 29, 2024 |
| 18562604 | METHOD FOR DETECTING LIVE LACTIC ACID BACTERIA WITH CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM ACTIVITY | CRUM, MARY ABOU NADER | 1645 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 14d | Pending | Nov 20, 2023 |
| 18253956 | METHOD FOR COLLECTING CELLS OF MICROORGANISM IN SPECIMEN | KOROTCHKINA, LIOUBOV G | 1653 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 35d | Pending | May 23, 2023 |
| 17775775 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING FERMENTED MILK CONTAINING OLIGOSACCHARIDES | LACHICA, ERICSON M | 1792 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 10, 2022 |
| 17599098 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING LACTIC ACID BACTERIUM FERMENTATION FOOD PRODUCT | TURNER, FELICIA C | 1793 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 5d | Pending | Sep 28, 2021 |
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