Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals
5 pending office actions • 3 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days
Natura Cosméticos S A maintains a patent portfolio within the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. The portfolio currently faces 6 pending office actions, indicating a significant level of ongoing examination activity. These actions are distributed across 6 distinct examiners, showing a broad spread of scrutiny within the patent office. This distribution suggests that the applicant is pursuing multiple distinct innovations or claims simultaneously.
The prosecution is occurring across 4 distinct art units, which reflects a diverse range of technical classifications within the biotechnology sector. SPAINE, ROBERT FRANKLIN is identified as the busiest examiner for this portfolio, though he is only responsible for 1 pending office action. This means that the 6 pending office actions are largely handled by different individuals, requiring a strategy that accounts for various examiner styles. The presence of 4 distinct art units further emphasizes the need for specialized technical arguments across the 6 pending office actions. This diversity in examiners and art units suggests a complex prosecution landscape for the applicant.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 2 (40%) |
| §103 only | 1 (20%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (40%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SPAINE, ROBERT FRANKLIN | 1 | 75.0% | +0.0% |
| FIEBIG, RUSSELL G | 1 | 62.6% | +25.0% |
| KWON, JOHN SEUNGJAI | 1 | 45.7% | +19.3% |
| MATTISON, LORI K | 1 | 14.7% | +26.6% |
| BOECKELMAN, JACOB A | 1 | 35.2% | +45.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16301162 | PREBIOTIC COSMETIC COMPOSITIONS AND USE OF THE PREBIOTIC COSMETIC COMPOSITIONS | BOECKELMAN, JACOB A | 25d overdue |
| 18560734 | COSMETIC COMPOSITION, USE OF CASEARIA SYLVESTRIS, SCHINUS TEREBINTHIFOLIUS, HYMENAEA COURBARIL AND LACTOBACILLUS AND METHOD FOR THE PREVENTION AND/OR TREATMENT OF SIGNS RESULTING FROM SKIN AGING | SPAINE, ROBERT FRANKLIN | 26d |
| 18560767 | ANTIOXIDANT COSMETIC COMPLEX, COSMETIC COMPOSITION, USE AND METHOD FOR COSMETIC TREATMENT | FIEBIG, RUSSELL G | — |
| 17254643 | COSMETIC COMPOSITION FOR TREATING KERATIN FIBERS | MATTISON, LORI K | — |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16301162 | PREBIOTIC COSMETIC COMPOSITIONS AND USE OF THE PREBIOTIC COSMETIC COMPOSITIONS | BOECKELMAN, JACOB A | 25d overdue |
| 18560767 | ANTIOXIDANT COSMETIC COMPLEX, COSMETIC COMPOSITION, USE AND METHOD FOR COSMETIC TREATMENT | FIEBIG, RUSSELL G | — |
| 17633429 | TOPICAL COSMETIC COMPOSITION, USE OF THE COSMETIC COMPOSITION AND MASK FOR FACIAL APPLICATION | KWON, JOHN SEUNGJAI | — |
| 17254643 | COSMETIC COMPOSITION FOR TREATING KERATIN FIBERS | MATTISON, LORI K | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1655 | 3 |
| 1615 | 1 |
| 1619 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18560734 | COSMETIC COMPOSITION, USE OF CASEARIA SYLVESTRIS, SCHINUS TEREBINTHIFOLIUS, HYMENAEA COURBARIL AND LACTOBACILLUS AND METHOD FOR THE PREVENTION AND/OR TREATMENT OF SIGNS RESULTING FROM SKIN AGING | SPAINE, ROBERT FRANKLIN | 1655 | §101§112 | Final Rejection | 26d | Pending | Nov 14, 2023 |
| 18560767 | ANTIOXIDANT COSMETIC COMPLEX, COSMETIC COMPOSITION, USE AND METHOD FOR COSMETIC TREATMENT | FIEBIG, RUSSELL G | 1655 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 14, 2023 |
| 17633429 | TOPICAL COSMETIC COMPOSITION, USE OF THE COSMETIC COMPOSITION AND MASK FOR FACIAL APPLICATION | KWON, JOHN SEUNGJAI | 1615 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 07, 2022 |
| 17254643 | COSMETIC COMPOSITION FOR TREATING KERATIN FIBERS | MATTISON, LORI K | 1619 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 21, 2020 |
| 16301162 | PREBIOTIC COSMETIC COMPOSITIONS AND USE OF THE PREBIOTIC COSMETIC COMPOSITIONS | BOECKELMAN, JACOB A | 1655 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 25d overdue | Pending | Apr 26, 2019 |
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