Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Chemistry & Materials
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Nagase Viita Co. Ltd. is managing 1 pending office action in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This involves 1 distinct examiner and a distinct art unit. JACOBSON, MICHELE LYNN is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending office action. This single action represents the company's entire current pending workload.
The pending office action is situated in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. Because there is a distinct examiner and a distinct art unit involved, the company's current interactions with the USPTO are highly centralized. JACOBSON, MICHELE LYNN is the only examiner identified in the data, managing the prosecution. This singular focus means that the outcome of the company's current patenting efforts depends entirely on the review of this individual. Practitioners should prioritize understanding the specific preferences and past decisions of this examiner within the assigned art unit to effectively navigate the process.
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 | 1 (50%) |
| §103 only | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| JACOBSON, MICHELE LYNN | 1 | 28.0% | +32.9% |
| ZHANG SPIERING, DONGXIU | 1 | 45.2% | +70.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18710394 | SALTINESS ENHANCING COMPOSITION, AND COMPOSITION FOR ORAL USE AND METHOD OF ENHANCING SALTINESS THEREOF | JACOBSON, MICHELE LYNN | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18710394 | SALTINESS ENHANCING COMPOSITION, AND COMPOSITION FOR ORAL USE AND METHOD OF ENHANCING SALTINESS THEREOF | JACOBSON, MICHELE LYNN | — |
| 17609042 | GEL-TYPE SKIN EXTERNAL COMPOSITION | ZHANG SPIERING, DONGXIU | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1793 | 1 |
| 1616 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18710394 | SALTINESS ENHANCING COMPOSITION, AND COMPOSITION FOR ORAL USE AND METHOD OF ENHANCING SALTINESS THEREOF | JACOBSON, MICHELE LYNN | 1793 | §101§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 15, 2024 |
| 17609042 | GEL-TYPE SKIN EXTERNAL COMPOSITION | ZHANG SPIERING, DONGXIU | 1616 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 05, 2021 |
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