Technology area: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals
4 pending office actions • 3 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Pierre Fabre Dermo-cosmetique currently has 5 pending office actions within the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. These matters are distributed across 5 distinct examiners and 4 distinct art units. This indicates a relatively high degree of fragmentation, with each pending action being reviewed by a different individual.
The busiest examiner for the portfolio is TIEN, LUCY MINYU, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. Because there are 5 pending office actions and 5 distinct examiners, every active case is assigned to a different person. This means the company must manage different examination styles and sets of expectations simultaneously.
The use of 4 distinct art units for the 5 pending office actions suggests that most cases are in different technical groups. For a practitioner, the fact that each of the 5 distinct examiners has only 1 pending action means there is no opportunity to leverage a relationship with a single examiner across multiple files. The prosecution of these pending office actions will require a diversified approach tailored to each of the individual examiners.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 2 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TIEN, LUCY MINYU | 1 | 59.1% | +36.8% |
| OLSEN, KAELEIGH ELIZABETH | 1 | 47.1% | +64.3% |
| WRIGHT, SARAH C | 1 | 42.1% | +45.6% |
| PALENIK, JEFFREY T | 1 | 53.5% | +27.0% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18282131 | NEW TOPICAL COMPOSITION FREE OF SULFATE DERIVED SURFACTANTS | OLSEN, KAELEIGH ELIZABETH | 25d overdue |
| 18036432 | NOVEL SYSTEM FOR SOLUBILISING FAT-SOLUBLE ORGANIC SUN FILTERS | WRIGHT, SARAH C | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18282131 | NEW TOPICAL COMPOSITION FREE OF SULFATE DERIVED SURFACTANTS | OLSEN, KAELEIGH ELIZABETH | 25d overdue |
| 18042679 | Silybum marianum (L.) Gaertn. oil for reinforcing the barrier function of the skin | PALENIK, JEFFREY T | 63d |
| 18573044 | COSMETIC COMPOSITION FOR THE HAIR AND USE THEREOF FOR HAIR AND/OR SCALP CARE | TIEN, LUCY MINYU | — |
| 18036432 | NOVEL SYSTEM FOR SOLUBILISING FAT-SOLUBLE ORGANIC SUN FILTERS | WRIGHT, SARAH C | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1619 | 2 |
| 1612 | 1 |
| 1615 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18573044 | COSMETIC COMPOSITION FOR THE HAIR AND USE THEREOF FOR HAIR AND/OR SCALP CARE | TIEN, LUCY MINYU | 1612 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 21, 2023 |
| 18282131 | NEW TOPICAL COMPOSITION FREE OF SULFATE DERIVED SURFACTANTS | OLSEN, KAELEIGH ELIZABETH | 1619 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 25d overdue | Pending | Sep 14, 2023 |
| 18036432 | NOVEL SYSTEM FOR SOLUBILISING FAT-SOLUBLE ORGANIC SUN FILTERS | WRIGHT, SARAH C | 1619 | §102§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 11, 2023 |
| 18042679 | Silybum marianum (L.) Gaertn. oil for reinforcing the barrier function of the skin | PALENIK, JEFFREY T | 1615 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 63d | Pending | Feb 23, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialPierre Fabre Dermo-cosmetique has 4 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 4 examiners.
Lucy Minyu Tien has the most, with 1 of Pierre Fabre Dermo-cosmetique's pending office actions.
Mostly Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals (USPTO Tech Center 1600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
