Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals
9 pending office actions • 8 art units • 8 examiners • 0 of 9 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Ojai Energetics Pbc has 9 pending office actions in the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. These actions are handled by 8 distinct examiners, suggesting that most examiners are managing only one action each. This distribution helps mitigate the impact of any single examiner's tendencies on the overall portfolio. The portfolio spans 8 distinct art units, which is a high number relative to the 9 pending office actions. This indicates that the company's biotechnology and pharmaceutical innovations are being evaluated across many different specialized groups within the USPTO.
HINES, JANA A is the busiest examiner with 2 pending actions. The presence of 8 distinct art units for 9 pending office actions suggests a fragmented prosecution landscape. Practitioners should be prepared for varied requirements and examination cultures across these 8 units. HINES, JANA A's 2 pending actions represent the only point of examiner overlap in the current pending set. This decentralized structure requires the applicant to maintain consistent strategies across many different USPTO groups. The involvement of 8 distinct examiners means that the company's patent outcomes are distributed across a wide variety of individual perspectives.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 4 (44%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (11%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (44%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HINES, JANA A | 2 | 53.0% | +39.7% |
| PAGE, BRENT T | 1 | 82.4% | +10.8% |
| MI, QIUWEN | 1 | 68.4% | +49.9% |
| VAN BUREN, LAUREN K | 1 | 39.8% | +58.1% |
| CHANDRAKUMAR, NIZAL S | 1 | 72.7% | +18.3% |
| MCMILLIAN, KARA RENITA | 1 | 30.7% | +37.9% |
| KIM, DANIELLE A | 1 | 37.1% | +56.3% |
| GHALI, ISIS A D | 1 | 27.9% | +41.6% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19241690 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR CANNABINOID PRODUCT PRODUCTION | PAGE, BRENT T | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16585630 | METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR ENHANCING HEALTH | GHALI, ISIS A D | 119d overdue |
| 18420673 | METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR MICROENCAPSULATED COMPOUNDS | MI, QIUWEN | — |
| 18471936 | METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR POTENTIATING STEM CELL THERAPIES | VAN BUREN, LAUREN K | — |
| 17711351 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR FORMING STABLE DROPLETS | HINES, JANA A | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16585630 | METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR ENHANCING HEALTH | GHALI, ISIS A D | 119d overdue |
| 18130261 | METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR REDUCING OXIDATIVE STRESS | MCMILLIAN, KARA RENITA | 87d overdue |
| 18202567 | METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR CANNABINOID-BASED THERAPEUTICS | CHANDRAKUMAR, NIZAL S | 4d overdue |
| 17951981 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND COMPOSITIONS FOR INFECTIONS | KIM, DANIELLE A | 34d |
| 19241690 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR CANNABINOID PRODUCT PRODUCTION | PAGE, BRENT T | — |
| 18815388 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR FORMING STABLE DROPLETS | HINES, JANA A | — |
| 18420673 | METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR MICROENCAPSULATED COMPOUNDS | MI, QIUWEN | — |
| 18471936 | METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR POTENTIATING STEM CELL THERAPIES | VAN BUREN, LAUREN K | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1645 | 2 |
| 1662 | 1 |
| 1655 | 1 |
| 1638 | 1 |
| 1625 | 1 |
| 1623 | 1 |
| 1613 | 1 |
| 1611 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19241690 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR CANNABINOID PRODUCT PRODUCTION | PAGE, BRENT T | 1662 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 18, 2025 |
| 18815388 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR FORMING STABLE DROPLETS | HINES, JANA A | 1645 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 26, 2024 |
| 18420673 | METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR MICROENCAPSULATED COMPOUNDS | MI, QIUWEN | 1655 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 23, 2024 |
| 18471936 | METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR POTENTIATING STEM CELL THERAPIES | VAN BUREN, LAUREN K | 1638 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 21, 2023 |
| 18202567 | METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR CANNABINOID-BASED THERAPEUTICS | CHANDRAKUMAR, NIZAL S | 1625 | §103DP | Final Rejection | 4d overdue | Pending | May 26, 2023 |
| 18130261 | METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR REDUCING OXIDATIVE STRESS | MCMILLIAN, KARA RENITA | 1623 | §103 | Final Rejection | 87d overdue | Pending | Apr 03, 2023 |
| 17951981 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND COMPOSITIONS FOR INFECTIONS | KIM, DANIELLE A | 1613 | §103 | Final Rejection | 34d | Pending | Sep 23, 2022 |
| 17711351 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR FORMING STABLE DROPLETS | HINES, JANA A | 1645 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 01, 2022 |
| 16585630 | METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR ENHANCING HEALTH | GHALI, ISIS A D | 1611 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 119d overdue | Pending | Sep 27, 2019 |
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