Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
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 • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days
Lesaffre et Compagnie currently manages 3 pending office actions within the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. These active matters are distributed across 3 distinct art units, indicating a broad spread of subject matter within the portfolio. The prosecution work involves 3 distinct examiners, showing that each pending action is currently assigned to a different individual for review. This ratio between actions and examiners suggests that no official is currently handling multiple applications for the company.
OGUNBIYI, OLUWATOSIN A is identified as the busiest examiner for this company, currently overseeing 1 pending office action. This specific examiner's workload represents a portion of the 3 total pending office actions for the portfolio. The alignment of 3 distinct examiners with 3 distinct art units suggests a diverse regulatory environment for the pending biotechnology and pharmaceutical applications. Practitioners should prepare for varied examination styles across these different art units, as the current data shows no concentration of personnel or administrative groups.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (67%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| OGUNBIYI, OLUWATOSIN A | 1 | 63.7% | +41.4% |
| NOAKES, SUZANNE MARIE | 1 | 73.3% | +18.2% |
| SHELLHAMMER, JAMES PAUL | 1 | 10.0% | +18.8% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18246607 | RECOMBINANT YEAST FOR THE PRODUCTION OF OLIGOPEPTIDE | NOAKES, SUZANNE MARIE | 18d overdue |
| 18701354 | MIXTURE OF AT LEAST ONE BACTERIOPHAGE AND OF AT LEAST ONE YEAST AND METHOD FOR DRYING SAME | OGUNBIYI, OLUWATOSIN A | — |
| 17778171 | METHOD FOR PRESERVING COOKED BAKERY PRODUCTS | SHELLHAMMER, JAMES PAUL | — |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18246607 | RECOMBINANT YEAST FOR THE PRODUCTION OF OLIGOPEPTIDE | NOAKES, SUZANNE MARIE | 18d overdue |
| 18701354 | MIXTURE OF AT LEAST ONE BACTERIOPHAGE AND OF AT LEAST ONE YEAST AND METHOD FOR DRYING SAME | OGUNBIYI, OLUWATOSIN A | — |
| 17778171 | METHOD FOR PRESERVING COOKED BAKERY PRODUCTS | SHELLHAMMER, JAMES PAUL | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1645 | 1 |
| 1656 | 1 |
| 1793 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18701354 | MIXTURE OF AT LEAST ONE BACTERIOPHAGE AND OF AT LEAST ONE YEAST AND METHOD FOR DRYING SAME | OGUNBIYI, OLUWATOSIN A | 1645 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 15, 2024 |
| 18246607 | RECOMBINANT YEAST FOR THE PRODUCTION OF OLIGOPEPTIDE | NOAKES, SUZANNE MARIE | 1656 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 18d overdue | Pending | Mar 24, 2023 |
| 17778171 | METHOD FOR PRESERVING COOKED BAKERY PRODUCTS | SHELLHAMMER, JAMES PAUL | 1793 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 19, 2022 |
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