Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Kao Usa Inc. has 2 pending office actions in the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. These actions are both located within 1 distinct art unit. The prosecution involves 2 distinct examiners, each managing 1 of the pending actions. This concentration of 2 pending office actions in 1 distinct art unit suggests a specific technical focus for the company's current filings in the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals sector.
GEMBEH, SHIRLEY V is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending office action. While there are 2 distinct examiners, their work within the same 1 distinct art unit may lead to similar examination patterns. Practitioners should coordinate their responses to the 2 pending office actions to maintain consistency across the portfolio. The presence of 2 distinct examiners in a single art unit means that while the individual reviewers differ, the overall examination environment for the 2 pending actions is likely to be uniform.
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 (50%) |
| §102 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GEMBEH, SHIRLEY V | 1 | 63.2% | +34.0% |
| WARD, PAUL V | 1 | 83.2% | -12.2% |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18129389 | COMPOSITION FOR SANITIZING A SURFACE OF SKIN | WARD, PAUL V | — |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18937461 | COMPOSITIONS FOR APPLICATION TO A SURFACE OF SKIN | GEMBEH, SHIRLEY V | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1622 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18937461 | COMPOSITIONS FOR APPLICATION TO A SURFACE OF SKIN | GEMBEH, SHIRLEY V | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 05, 2024 |
| 18129389 | COMPOSITION FOR SANITIZING A SURFACE OF SKIN | WARD, PAUL V | 1622 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 31, 2023 |
IP Author helps IP teams respond to office actions faster with AI-generated responses, examiner analytics, and prosecution intelligence.
Start Free Trial