Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Reckitt Benckiser Vanish B V currently has 3 pending office actions within its company patent portfolio, specifically in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These 3 pending actions are distributed across 2 distinct art units, suggesting that the company's chemical innovations fall into two primary technical categories at the patent office. This distribution requires the company to manage its prosecution strategy across 2 distinct art units.
The workload is handled by 3 distinct examiners, which matches the total number of 3 pending office actions. This means each active application is being reviewed by a different individual, providing a variety of perspectives on the company's chemical claims. DELCOTTO, GREGORY R is the busiest examiner for Reckitt Benckiser Vanish B V, currently overseeing 1 pending office action.
The 3 pending office actions represent the current active pipeline for Reckitt Benckiser Vanish B V in the Chemistry & Materials sector. With 3 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units involved, the prosecution landscape is relatively diverse for a portfolio of this size. DELCOTTO, GREGORY R, as the busiest examiner with 1 pending action, is one of the key figures in the company's ongoing efforts to secure patent protection.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 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 | 1 (33%) |
| §112 only | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DELCOTTO, GREGORY R | 1 | 54.0% | +75.8% |
| DOUYON, LORNA M | 1 | 56.7% | +72.1% |
| ASDJODI, MOHAMMADREZA | 1 | 59.1% | +46.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18546288 | LAUNDRY COMPOSITION | DOUYON, LORNA M | 161d 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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18546288 | LAUNDRY COMPOSITION | DOUYON, LORNA M | 161d overdue |
| 18857926 | CORE-AND-SHELL LAUNDRY COMPOSITION | DELCOTTO, GREGORY R | — |
| 18546291 | LIQUID LAUNDRY COMPOSITION | ASDJODI, MOHAMMADREZA | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1761 | 1 |
| 1767 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18857926 | CORE-AND-SHELL LAUNDRY COMPOSITION | DELCOTTO, GREGORY R | — | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 18, 2024 |
| 18546288 | LAUNDRY COMPOSITION | DOUYON, LORNA M | 1761 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 161d overdue | Pending | Aug 14, 2023 |
| 18546291 | LIQUID LAUNDRY COMPOSITION | ASDJODI, MOHAMMADREZA | 1767 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 14, 2023 |
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