Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals
16 pending office actions • 6 art units • 16 examiners • 0 of 16 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 18 patents granted in the last 365 days
Mary Kay Inc. has 15 pending office actions in the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. These 15 actions are assigned to 15 distinct examiners, ensuring that each pending matter is reviewed by a different individual. CHHAY, BONIRATH is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently holding 1 pending office action.
The company's prosecution activity is distributed across 6 distinct art units, which shows a range of technical focuses within the biotechnology and pharmaceutical sectors. With 15 distinct examiners and 6 distinct art units, the 15 pending office actions are subject to a variety of individual perspectives and examination standards.
Because no individual examiner handles more than 1 pending office action, the portfolio's current workload is completely decentralized. Practitioners must manage 15 separate prosecution tracks across 6 distinct art units, as each of the 15 distinct examiners will bring their own interpretation to the company's 15 pending office actions.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 2 (12%) |
| §103 only | 7 (44%) |
| §112 only | 1 (6%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 4 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (12%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHHAY, BONIRATH | 1 | 83.3% | +0.0% |
| BOATENG, AFUA BAMFOAA | 1 | 46.6% | +64.4% |
| PHAN, DOAN THI-THUC | 1 | 42.7% | +47.7% |
| CONIGLIO, AUDREA JUNE BUCKLEY | 1 | 52.9% | +21.1% |
| STEINKE, SEAN JAMES | 1 | 12.5% | +42.9% |
| MI, QIUWEN | 1 | 68.4% | +49.9% |
| BABSON, NICOLE PLOURDE | 1 | 46.6% | +33.1% |
| WRIGHT, SARAH C | 1 | 41.6% | +46.0% |
| JUSTICE, GINA CHIEUN YU | 1 | 55.6% | +8.4% |
| LEWIS, PATRICK T | 1 | 74.0% | +14.5% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19234482 | METHOD FOR DETERMINING FACIAL MUSCLE RESPONSES | CHHAY, BONIRATH | — |
| 18891671 | METHOD AND COMPOSITIONS FOR COSMETIC COMPOSITIONS | STEINKE, SEAN JAMES | — |
| 18798376 | COSMETIC COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS OF USING THE SAME | BABSON, NICOLE PLOURDE | — |
| 18680001 | SUNSCREEN COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS OF USE | LEWIS, PATRICK T | — |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19000308 | COSMETIC COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS OF USING SAME | BOATENG, AFUA BAMFOAA | — |
| 18899566 | SKIN LIGHTENING COMPOSITIONS | PHAN, DOAN THI-THUC | — |
| 18894367 | COSMETIC COMPOSITION AND USES THEREOF | CONIGLIO, AUDREA JUNE BUCKLEY | — |
| 18891671 | METHOD AND COMPOSITIONS FOR COSMETIC COMPOSITIONS | STEINKE, SEAN JAMES | — |
| 18828485 | COSMETIC COMPOSITION | MI, QIUWEN | — |
| 18798376 | COSMETIC COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS OF USING THE SAME | BABSON, NICOLE PLOURDE | — |
| 18792230 | TOPICAL COMPOSITIONS | WRIGHT, SARAH C | — |
| 18680001 | SUNSCREEN COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS OF USE | LEWIS, PATRICK T | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1616 | 2 |
| 1617 | 1 |
| 1655 | 1 |
| 1663 | 1 |
| 1612 | 1 |
| 3991 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19234482 | METHOD FOR DETERMINING FACIAL MUSCLE RESPONSES | CHHAY, BONIRATH | — | §101§103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 11, 2025 |
| 19000308 | COSMETIC COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS OF USING SAME | BOATENG, AFUA BAMFOAA | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 23, 2024 |
| 18899566 | SKIN LIGHTENING COMPOSITIONS | PHAN, DOAN THI-THUC | — | §103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 27, 2024 |
| 18894367 | COSMETIC COMPOSITION AND USES THEREOF | CONIGLIO, AUDREA JUNE BUCKLEY | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 24, 2024 |
| 18891671 | METHOD AND COMPOSITIONS FOR COSMETIC COMPOSITIONS | STEINKE, SEAN JAMES | — | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 20, 2024 |
| 18828485 | COSMETIC COMPOSITION | MI, QIUWEN | — | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 09, 2024 |
| 18798376 | COSMETIC COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS OF USING THE SAME | BABSON, NICOLE PLOURDE | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 08, 2024 |
| 18792230 | TOPICAL COMPOSITIONS | WRIGHT, SARAH C | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 01, 2024 |
| 18745158 | TOPICAL MUSCLE RELAXATION COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS | JUSTICE, GINA CHIEUN YU | 1617 | §103 | Final Rejection | 17d overdue | Pending | Jun 17, 2024 |
| 18680001 | SUNSCREEN COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS OF USE | LEWIS, PATRICK T | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 31, 2024 |
| 18664854 | SKIN CARE FORMULATION | BOECKELMAN, JACOB A | 1655 | §103 | Final Rejection | 40d | Pending | May 15, 2024 |
| 18387319 | PORE MINIMIZER | ABRAHAM, AMJAD A | 1663 | §103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 06, 2023 |
| 18500625 | COSMETIC COMPOSITIONS AND USES THEREOF | VIGIL, TORIANA NICHOLE | 1612 | §103 | Final Rejection | 9d overdue | Pending | Nov 02, 2023 |
| 18347025 | COSMETIC COMPOSITION | HAGOPIAN, CASEY SHEA | 1616 | §103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 05, 2023 |
| 18133271 | SKIN CLEANSER COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR USE | ARMSTRONG, SUSANNAH SIPPLE | 1616 | §102§103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 11, 2023 |
| 18131746 | TOPICAL SKIN CARE FORMULATIONS COMPRISING PLANT EXTRACTS | DRISCOLL, LORA E BARNHART | 3991 | §112Other | Non-Final OA | 3d overdue | Pending | Apr 06, 2023 |
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