Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals
4 pending office actions • 4 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 operates in the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. The portfolio currently has 4 pending office actions. These actions are distributed across 4 distinct examiners and 4 distinct art units. This wide distribution indicates that the company's current prosecution is highly decentralized across the patent office.
The busiest examiner for the company is TIEN, LUCY MINYU. This examiner is handling 1 busiest examiner pending office action. This specific action is one of the 4 total pending office actions for the company. TIEN, LUCY MINYU is one of the multiple individuals reviewing the company's Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals applications.
The 4 pending office actions are assigned to the distinct examiners and the distinct art units. TIEN, LUCY MINYU is the busiest examiner with the busiest examiner pending office action. This distribution indicates that the company's prosecution is spread, with each of the 4 pending office actions being handled by a different examiner in a different art unit. Practitioners should be prepared for unique examiner perspectives and art unit requirements for each pending matter.
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 | 3 (75%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (25%) |
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 | 59.3% | +39.2% |
| OLSEN, KAELEIGH ELIZABETH | 1 | 50.0% | +61.5% |
| ZHANG SPIERING, DONGXIU | 1 | 45.2% | +70.9% |
| PALENIK, JEFFREY T | 1 | 53.6% | +27.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18282131 | NEW TOPICAL COMPOSITION FREE OF SULFATE DERIVED SURFACTANTS | OLSEN, KAELEIGH ELIZABETH | 25d 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 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 | — |
| 18274595 | TOPICAL COMPOSITION USEFUL FOR THE DAILY CARE OF ACNE-PRONE SKIN | ZHANG SPIERING, DONGXIU | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1612 | 1 |
| 1619 | 1 |
| 1616 | 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 |
| 18274595 | TOPICAL COMPOSITION USEFUL FOR THE DAILY CARE OF ACNE-PRONE SKIN | ZHANG SPIERING, DONGXIU | 1616 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 27, 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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