Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Reflux Gourmet LLC is currently prosecuting a portfolio within the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area that shows a specific concentration of technical focus. The company has 2 pending office actions, which are being reviewed by 2 distinct examiners. This distribution means that each active matter is being handled by a different individual, requiring the applicant to address two separate sets of examiner preferences. Despite the involvement of multiple examiners, the portfolio remains contained within 1 distinct art unit, suggesting that the subject matter is technically cohesive.
The busiest examiner for the company is GALSTER, SAMUEL LEONARD, who is assigned 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Since there are 2 pending office actions in total, GALSTER, SAMUEL LEONARD is responsible for 1 of the current prosecution matters. The fact that 2 distinct examiners are operating within 1 distinct art unit indicates that the company is navigating the internal logic of a single specialized group at the patent office while dealing with different personal styles. Practitioners should note that the 2 pending office actions represent the entirety of the current active pipeline, focused entirely on the specific standards of that one art unit.
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 (100%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LEE, HOI YAN NMN | 1 | 38.4% | +75.9% |
| GALSTER, SAMUEL LEONARD | 1 | 50.9% | +43.2% |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17856527 | ALGINATE, POLYLYSINE, AND SEED PRESERVATIVE NUTRITIONAL PRODUCT AND DIGESTIVE AID | LEE, HOI YAN NMN | 23d overdue |
| 17856542 | METHOD FOR NEUTRALIZING STOMACH ACID USING ALGINATE, POLYLYSINE, AND SEED PRESERVATIVES | GALSTER, SAMUEL LEONARD | 15d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1693 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17856527 | ALGINATE, POLYLYSINE, AND SEED PRESERVATIVE NUTRITIONAL PRODUCT AND DIGESTIVE AID | LEE, HOI YAN NMN | 1693 | §103 | Final Rejection | 23d overdue | Pending | Jul 01, 2022 |
| 17856542 | METHOD FOR NEUTRALIZING STOMACH ACID USING ALGINATE, POLYLYSINE, AND SEED PRESERVATIVES | GALSTER, SAMUEL LEONARD | 1693 | §103 | Final Rejection | 15d overdue | Pending | Jul 01, 2022 |
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