Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 15, 2026

Reckitt Benckiser Health Limited

10 pending office actions • 10 art units • 10 examiners • 0 of 10 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

10
Total Pending OAs
2
Non-Final OAs
8
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 6 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

2
Overdue
1
Due this week
1
Due this month
2
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. 6 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

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

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.

3
Hard (30%)
7
Medium (70%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only7 (70%)
Multi-statute (no §101)3 (30%)

Industry Mix

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

9
Life Sciences
90% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
1
Mechanical / Eng
10% 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.

100 h
Manual time on pending OAs
20 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
35 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.9 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
MELENDEZ, ARMAND 1 46.2% +42.8%
GEMBEH, SHIRLEY V 1 63.1% +33.8%
BROWE, DAVID 1 26.2% +27.7%
SERGENT, RABON A 1 54.8% +24.2%
JOSEPH, JANET 1 40.0% +51.3%
LEE, ANDREW P 1 48.4% +23.3%
LEE, MICHELLE J 1 39.8% +60.7%
ZHANG SPIERING, DONGXIU 1 38.1% +88.9%
NOTTINGHAM, KYLE GREGORY 1 59.3% +34.9%
KIM, DANIELLE A 1 36.7% +57.5%

Hard Cases (4)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
17916164 PURE POLYURETHANE CONDOM HAVING ADHESIVE LAYER AND PREPARATION METHOD THEREFOR LEE, MICHELLE J 73d overdue
18261290 LUBRICANT BROWE, DAVID 31d overdue
17785959 Personal Lubricant Composition ZHANG SPIERING, DONGXIU 12d
18548645 NOVEL COMPOSITION GEMBEH, SHIRLEY V

Interview Candidates (10)

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
18261290 LUBRICANT BROWE, DAVID 31d overdue
17425981 ORODISPERSIBLE TABLET KIM, DANIELLE A 6d
17785959 Personal Lubricant Composition ZHANG SPIERING, DONGXIU 12d
17999061 FORMULATION CONTAINING IBUPROFEN JOSEPH, JANET 34d
18851411 LAMINATE HAVING IMPROVED TENSILE PROPERTIES MELENDEZ, ARMAND 49d
18548645 NOVEL COMPOSITION GEMBEH, SHIRLEY V
18245774 AQUEOUS POLYURETHANE EMULSION, PREPARATION METHOD THEREFOR AND USE THEREOF SERGENT, RABON A

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1759 1
1615 1
1617 1
1765 1
1611 1
1691 1
3786 1
1616 1
1621 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
18548645 NOVEL COMPOSITION GEMBEH, SHIRLEY V 1615 §102§103 Final Rejection Pending Sep 01, 2023
18261290 LUBRICANT BROWE, DAVID 1617 §103 Final Rejection 31d overdue Pending Jul 13, 2023
18245774 AQUEOUS POLYURETHANE EMULSION, PREPARATION METHOD THEREFOR AND USE THEREOF SERGENT, RABON A 1765 §103 Final Rejection Pending Mar 17, 2023
17999061 FORMULATION CONTAINING IBUPROFEN JOSEPH, JANET 1611 §103Other Final Rejection 34d Pending Nov 17, 2022
17999073 IBUPROFEN CONTAINING SOFT GELATINE CAPSULE LEE, ANDREW P 1691 §103 Final Rejection Pending Nov 17, 2022
17916164 PURE POLYURETHANE CONDOM HAVING ADHESIVE LAYER AND PREPARATION METHOD THEREFOR LEE, MICHELLE J 3786 §103§112 Final Rejection 73d overdue Pending Sep 30, 2022
17785959 Personal Lubricant Composition ZHANG SPIERING, DONGXIU 1616 §103§112 Non-Final OA 12d Pending Jun 16, 2022
17429761 COMPOSITIONS CONTAINING NSAIDS, SOLUBILISING AGENTS, AND THIXOTROPIC AGENTS AND METHODS OF PRODUCING AND USING SAME NOTTINGHAM, KYLE GREGORY 1621 §103Other Final Rejection Pending Aug 10, 2021
17425981 ORODISPERSIBLE TABLET KIM, DANIELLE A 1613 §103 Final Rejection 6d Pending Jul 27, 2021

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