Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Reckitt Benckiser Health Limited

11 pending office actions • 10 art units • 10 examiners • 0 of 11 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

11
Total Pending OAs
8
Non-Final OAs
3
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 11 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

5
Overdue
1
Due this week
2
Due this month
3
Due in next 60 days
0
Due later

Deadline Fire Line

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. 11 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (5)Due ≤ 7 days (1)Due ≤ 30 days (2)Due ≤ 60 days (3)

Case Difficulty Mix

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.

0
Hard (0%)
9
Medium (82%)
0
Easy (0%)
2
Unknown (18%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only9 (82%)
No statute on record2 (18%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

10
Life Sciences
91% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
1
Mechanical / Eng
9% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

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.

110 h
Manual time on pending OAs
22 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
38 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.0 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
ASDJODI, MOHAMMADREZA 2 59.1% +47.3%
MELENDEZ, ARMAND 1 46.7% +42.7%
FUNK, ERICA HARTSELL 1 69.7% +13.3%
ABBAS, ABDULRAHMAN MUSTAFA 1 54.4% +39.2%
BROWE, DAVID 1 25.8% +28.7%
JOSEPH, JANET 1 34.7% +42.8%
KENNEDY, TIMOTHY J 1 71.0% +17.4%
LEE, MICHELLE J 1 40.2% +61.2%
ZHANG SPIERING, DONGXIU 1 35.3% +85.7%
KIM, DANIELLE A 1 37.2% +58.0%

Hard Cases (1)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18261290 LUBRICANT BROWE, DAVID 31d overdue

Interview Candidates (11)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
17916164 PURE POLYURETHANE CONDOM HAVING ADHESIVE LAYER AND PREPARATION METHOD THEREFOR LEE, MICHELLE J 73d overdue
18577534 NOVEL USE OF POLYMER COMBINATION ABBAS, ABDULRAHMAN MUSTAFA 66d overdue
17916110 MOLD FOR MOLDING POLYURETHANE CONDOM, AND PREPARATION METHOD AND USE METHOD FOR MOLD KENNEDY, TIMOTHY J 44d overdue
18261290 LUBRICANT BROWE, DAVID 31d overdue
18573628 LAUNDRY SANITIZING COMPOSITION ASDJODI, MOHAMMADREZA 8d overdue
17425981 ORODISPERSIBLE TABLET KIM, DANIELLE A 6d
17785959 Personal Lubricant Composition ZHANG SPIERING, DONGXIU 12d
18716337 LAUNDRY SANITIZING AND SOFTENING COMPOSITION ASDJODI, MOHAMMADREZA 13d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1767 2
1759 1
1741 1
1612 1
1617 1
1611 1
1743 1
3786 1
1616 1
1613 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18851411 LAMINATE HAVING IMPROVED TENSILE PROPERTIES MELENDEZ, ARMAND 1759 §103 Non-Final OA 49d Pending Sep 26, 2024
18850272 Method for Preparing a Plurality of Condoms FUNK, ERICA HARTSELL 1741 §103 Non-Final OA 41d Pending Sep 24, 2024
18716337 LAUNDRY SANITIZING AND SOFTENING COMPOSITION ASDJODI, MOHAMMADREZA 1767 §103 Non-Final OA 13d Pending Jun 04, 2024
18577534 NOVEL USE OF POLYMER COMBINATION ABBAS, ABDULRAHMAN MUSTAFA 1612 Other Non-Final OA 66d overdue Pending Jan 08, 2024
18573628 LAUNDRY SANITIZING COMPOSITION ASDJODI, MOHAMMADREZA 1767 §103 Non-Final OA 8d overdue Pending Dec 22, 2023
18261290 LUBRICANT BROWE, DAVID 1617 §103 Non-Final OA 31d overdue Pending Jul 13, 2023
17999061 FORMULATION CONTAINING IBUPROFEN JOSEPH, JANET 1611 Other Final Rejection 34d Pending Nov 17, 2022
17916110 MOLD FOR MOLDING POLYURETHANE CONDOM, AND PREPARATION METHOD AND USE METHOD FOR MOLD KENNEDY, TIMOTHY J 1743 §103 Non-Final OA 44d overdue Pending Sep 30, 2022
17916164 PURE POLYURETHANE CONDOM HAVING ADHESIVE LAYER AND PREPARATION METHOD THEREFOR LEE, MICHELLE J 3786 §103 Non-Final OA 73d overdue Pending Sep 30, 2022
17785959 Personal Lubricant Composition ZHANG SPIERING, DONGXIU 1616 §103 Final Rejection 12d Pending Jun 16, 2022
17425981 ORODISPERSIBLE TABLET KIM, DANIELLE A 1613 §103 Final Rejection 6d Pending Jul 27, 2021

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