Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
L'Oeal currently has 1 pending office action within the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. This active matter is assigned to a distinct examiner and is situated within 1 distinct art unit. The concentration of the pending workload suggests a narrow focus for the company's current biotechnology-related prosecution efforts, with all activity funneling through a single point of review.
The busiest examiner identified in the data is GOTFREDSON, GAREN, who is responsible for the pending office action. Since the portfolio contains only an individual examiner and art unit, the prosecution experience is currently uniform across the company's pending applications. Practitioners should monitor the specific requirements of GOTFREDSON, GAREN to navigate the active office action successfully.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (100%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GOTFREDSON, GAREN | 1 | 40.0% | +28.0% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18258091 | USE OF A SHORT CHAIN FATTY ACID AS ANTIDANDRUFF AGENT | GOTFREDSON, GAREN | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18258091 | USE OF A SHORT CHAIN FATTY ACID AS ANTIDANDRUFF AGENT | GOTFREDSON, GAREN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1619 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18258091 | USE OF A SHORT CHAIN FATTY ACID AS ANTIDANDRUFF AGENT | GOTFREDSON, GAREN | 1619 | §102§103Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 30, 2023 |
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