Technology area: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals
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
Leading Edge Innovations LLC has 3 pending office actions in Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals. Those matters are distributed among 3 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units, so the portfolio presents a fully dispersed examination pattern across its pending work rather than a single coordinated examination channel.
LIU, SUE XU is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. No examiner accounts for more than that amount in the available profile, which means prosecution planning should be organized matter by matter. Counsel may benefit from tracking each art unit’s practice separately, while maintaining consistent claim terminology and technical positions across the biotechnology and pharmaceutical applications.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LIU, SUE XU | 1 | 20.9% | +18.6% |
| MITCHELL, EDWIN COLEMAN | 1 | 32.1% | +65.6% |
| JUSTICE, GINA CHIEUN YU | 1 | 55.6% | +8.5% |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18544715 | SPRAYABLE SUNSCREEN COMPOSITIONS CONTAINING OIL-IN-WATER DISPERSIONS OF HYDROPHOBIC AGENTS AND POLYMER OR COPOLYMER FRAGMENTS, OR COMBINATIONS THEREOF, AND METHODS OF USE THEREOF | LIU, SUE XU | — |
| 18542116 | OIL-IN-WATER EMULSIONS CONTAINING SUBMICRON HYDROPHOBIC AGENTS AND METHODS OF USE THEREOF | JUSTICE, GINA CHIEUN YU | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18544271 | SPRAYABLE COMPOSITIONS CONTAINING OIL-IN-WATER DISPERSIONS OF HYDROPHOBIC AGENTS AND POLYMER OR COPOLYMER FRAGMENTS, OR COMBINATIONS THEREOF, AND METHODS OF USE THEREOF | MITCHELL, EDWIN COLEMAN | 12d |
| 18544715 | SPRAYABLE SUNSCREEN COMPOSITIONS CONTAINING OIL-IN-WATER DISPERSIONS OF HYDROPHOBIC AGENTS AND POLYMER OR COPOLYMER FRAGMENTS, OR COMBINATIONS THEREOF, AND METHODS OF USE THEREOF | LIU, SUE XU | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1616 | 1 |
| 1619 | 1 |
| 1617 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18544715 | SPRAYABLE SUNSCREEN COMPOSITIONS CONTAINING OIL-IN-WATER DISPERSIONS OF HYDROPHOBIC AGENTS AND POLYMER OR COPOLYMER FRAGMENTS, OR COMBINATIONS THEREOF, AND METHODS OF USE THEREOF | LIU, SUE XU | 1616 | §103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 19, 2023 |
| 18544271 | SPRAYABLE COMPOSITIONS CONTAINING OIL-IN-WATER DISPERSIONS OF HYDROPHOBIC AGENTS AND POLYMER OR COPOLYMER FRAGMENTS, OR COMBINATIONS THEREOF, AND METHODS OF USE THEREOF | MITCHELL, EDWIN COLEMAN | 1619 | §112DP | Final Rejection | 12d | Pending | Dec 18, 2023 |
| 18542116 | OIL-IN-WATER EMULSIONS CONTAINING SUBMICRON HYDROPHOBIC AGENTS AND METHODS OF USE THEREOF | JUSTICE, GINA CHIEUN YU | 1617 | §102§103§112Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 15, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialLeading Edge Innovations LLC has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 3 examiners.
Sue Xu Liu has the most, with 1 of Leading Edge Innovations LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals (USPTO Tech Center 1600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
