Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Chemistry & Materials
5 pending office actions • 3 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Newlight Technologies Inc. maintains a patent portfolio focused on the Chemistry & Materials technology area. The company currently faces 5 pending office actions distributed across 3 distinct art units. This distribution indicates that while the technology is specialized, the prosecution efforts are spread across multiple administrative divisions within the patent office.
The portfolio involves 5 distinct examiners, matching the total number of 5 pending office actions. This distribution suggests a diverse range of perspectives from the examining corps rather than a concentrated interaction with a single individual. CHEN, VIVIAN is identified as the busiest examiner, though this individual is only responsible for 1 pending office action.
Practitioners should note that the presence of 3 distinct art units requires familiarity with varying examination standards within the Chemistry & Materials sector. Since the busiest examiner handles only 1 pending office action, no single examiner currently exerts a dominant influence over the company's pending matters. This fragmentation of workload across 5 distinct examiners may lead to varied prosecution timelines and outcomes for the pending applications.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 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. 3 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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 2 (40%) |
| §102 only | 1 (20%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (20%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (20%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHEN, VIVIAN | 1 | 56.7% | +29.1% |
| AFREMOVA, VERA | 1 | 50.5% | +29.1% |
| BHUSHAN, KUMAR R | 1 | 73.4% | +32.8% |
| ZHANG, RUIYUN | 1 | 70.4% | +10.6% |
| HESTER, HOLLEY GRACE | 1 | 66.7% | +40.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18014727 | POLYHYDROXYALKANOATE-BASED COMPOSITIONS AND ARTICLES MADE THEREFROM | HESTER, HOLLEY GRACE | 111d overdue |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18014727 | POLYHYDROXYALKANOATE-BASED COMPOSITIONS AND ARTICLES MADE THEREFROM | HESTER, HOLLEY GRACE | 111d overdue |
| 18276832 | COMPOSITION | BHUSHAN, KUMAR R | 2d overdue |
| 18004854 | SOLUTION AND METHOD FOR THE OXIDATIVE LYSIS AND CONDITIONING OF POLYHYDROXALKANOATE PRODUCING CELLS | ZHANG, RUIYUN | 55d |
| 18865891 | PELLET, PELLET MANUFACTURING METHOD, COMPOSITION/MOLDED BODY MANUFACTURING METHOD USING PELLET, AND PELLET MANUFACTURING COMPOSITION | CHEN, VIVIAN | — |
| 18731855 | POLYHYDROXYALKANOATE PRODUCTION AND RELATED PROCESSES | AFREMOVA, VERA | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1766 | 2 |
| 1653 | 1 |
| 1782 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18865891 | PELLET, PELLET MANUFACTURING METHOD, COMPOSITION/MOLDED BODY MANUFACTURING METHOD USING PELLET, AND PELLET MANUFACTURING COMPOSITION | CHEN, VIVIAN | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 14, 2024 |
| 18731855 | POLYHYDROXYALKANOATE PRODUCTION AND RELATED PROCESSES | AFREMOVA, VERA | 1653 | §112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 03, 2024 |
| 18276832 | COMPOSITION | BHUSHAN, KUMAR R | 1766 | §102Other | Final Rejection | 2d overdue | Pending | Aug 10, 2023 |
| 18004854 | SOLUTION AND METHOD FOR THE OXIDATIVE LYSIS AND CONDITIONING OF POLYHYDROXALKANOATE PRODUCING CELLS | ZHANG, RUIYUN | 1782 | §103 | Final Rejection | 55d | Pending | Jan 09, 2023 |
| 18014727 | POLYHYDROXYALKANOATE-BASED COMPOSITIONS AND ARTICLES MADE THEREFROM | HESTER, HOLLEY GRACE | 1766 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 111d overdue | Pending | Jan 05, 2023 |
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