Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Locus Solutions Ipco LLC

13 pending office actions • 10 art units • 13 examiners • 0 of 13 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 11 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

13
Total Pending OAs
11
Non-Final OAs
2
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 13 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

9
Overdue
0
Due this week
3
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
1
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. 13 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (9)Due ≤ 30 days (3)Due later (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%)
9
Medium (69%)
0
Easy (0%)
4
Unknown (31%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only9 (69%)
No statute on record4 (31%)

Industry Mix

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

11
Life Sciences
85% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
2
Mechanical / Eng
15% 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.

130 h
Manual time on pending OAs
26 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
46 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.1 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
WEBB, WALTER E 1 46.4% +18.6%
LI, AIQUN 1 63.9% +22.4%
RUNYAN, SILVANA C 1 82.2% +17.1%
ROBERTS, LEZAH 1 48.7% +36.3%
MCINTOSH III, TRAVISS C 1 73.3% +13.9%
CHO, DAVID H 1 38.2% +75.0%
BAUM, ZACHARY JOHN 1 79.5% +13.5%
PERRY, MONICA L 1 55.6% +37.6%
RODRIGUEZ-GARCIA, VALERIE 1 68.7% +31.6%
BABSON, NICOLE PLOURDE 1 46.5% +32.0%

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
18338434 Multi-Functional Compositions Comprising Concentrated Acids for Enhanced Oil and Gas Recovery RUNYAN, SILVANA C 22d overdue

Interview Candidates (10)

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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18248441 IMPROVED FOAMING BIOSURFACTANTS RODRIGUEZ-GARCIA, VALERIE 97d overdue
18249245 IMPROVED SOPHOROLIPID DERIVATIVES WITH THERAPEUTIC AGENT CARGOS AND THEIR USE CHO, DAVID H 91d overdue
18643489 Oral Health Composition Comprising Purified Biosurfactants and/or Their Derivatives WEBB, WALTER E 73d overdue
18248380 NAIL POLISH REMOVER COMPRISING GLYCOLIPIDS BABSON, NICOLE PLOURDE 31d overdue
18338434 Multi-Functional Compositions Comprising Concentrated Acids for Enhanced Oil and Gas Recovery RUNYAN, SILVANA C 22d overdue
18496172 Microbial Products and Their Use in Bioremediation and to Remove Paraffin and Other Contaminating Substances from Oil and Gas Production and Processing Equipment LI, AIQUN 19d overdue
18254015 ORAL HEALTH COMPOSITION COMPRISING PURIFIED BIOSURFACTANTS AND/OR THEIR DERIVATIVES ROBERTS, LEZAH 8d overdue
18249244 BIO-LEACHING COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR MINING METALS BAUM, ZACHARY JOHN 3d overdue

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1612 2
1693 2
1651 2
1766 1
3674 1
1736 1
3644 1
1621 1
1619 1
1732 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18643489 Oral Health Composition Comprising Purified Biosurfactants and/or Their Derivatives WEBB, WALTER E 1612 §103 Non-Final OA 73d overdue Pending Apr 23, 2024
18496172 Microbial Products and Their Use in Bioremediation and to Remove Paraffin and Other Contaminating Substances from Oil and Gas Production and Processing Equipment LI, AIQUN 1766 §103 Non-Final OA 19d overdue Pending Oct 27, 2023
18338434 Multi-Functional Compositions Comprising Concentrated Acids for Enhanced Oil and Gas Recovery RUNYAN, SILVANA C 3674 §103 Non-Final OA 22d overdue Pending Jun 21, 2023
18254015 ORAL HEALTH COMPOSITION COMPRISING PURIFIED BIOSURFACTANTS AND/OR THEIR DERIVATIVES ROBERTS, LEZAH 1612 Other Non-Final OA 8d overdue Pending May 23, 2023
18252394 MODIFIED SOPHOROLIPID FOR IMPROVED BIOAVAILABILITY OF AMINO ACIDS AND METHOD OF USE MCINTOSH III, TRAVISS C 1693 Other Final Rejection 13d Pending May 10, 2023
18249245 IMPROVED SOPHOROLIPID DERIVATIVES WITH THERAPEUTIC AGENT CARGOS AND THEIR USE CHO, DAVID H 1693 Other Non-Final OA 91d overdue Pending Apr 15, 2023
18249244 BIO-LEACHING COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR MINING METALS BAUM, ZACHARY JOHN 1736 §103 Non-Final OA 3d overdue Pending Apr 15, 2023
18248438 Compositions and Methods for Mitigating Standing Water and Controlling Water-Breeding Pests PERRY, MONICA L 3644 §103 Non-Final OA 14d Pending Apr 10, 2023
18248441 IMPROVED FOAMING BIOSURFACTANTS RODRIGUEZ-GARCIA, VALERIE 1621 §103 Non-Final OA 97d overdue Pending Apr 10, 2023
18248380 NAIL POLISH REMOVER COMPRISING GLYCOLIPIDS BABSON, NICOLE PLOURDE 1619 §103 Final Rejection 31d overdue Pending Apr 08, 2023
18297604 ENVIRONMENTALLY-FRIENDLY COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR EXTRACTING MINERALS AND METALS FROM ORE PATEL, SMITA S 1732 §103 Non-Final OA 18d overdue Pending Apr 08, 2023
18012059 Concrete with Improved Environmental Impact FERNANDEZ, SUSAN EMILY 1651 §103 Non-Final OA 79d Pending Dec 21, 2022
17280882 Multi-Use Fermentation Products Obtained Through Production of Sophorolipids SELWANES, JOHN PAUL 1651 Other Non-Final OA 23d Pending Mar 27, 2021

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