Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
15 pending office actions • 6 art units • 15 examiners • 0 of 15 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 38 patents granted in the last 365 days
S. C. Johnson & Son Inc. manages 15 pending office actions in the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. These actions are spread across 6 distinct art units, showing a range of biological and pharmaceutical research. The company is working with 15 distinct examiners, which indicates that every pending action is being handled by a different person. This distribution requires the company to navigate the individual styles of many different examiners to advance its 15 pending matters.
CHARLES I BOYER is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, with 1 pending office action currently assigned. This even distribution across 15 distinct examiners means there is no concentration of cases with any individual. The presence of 6 distinct art units suggests that the company's 15 pending actions are categorized into several different specialized groups. Practitioners should note that the busiest examiner handles 1 of the active matters, which is consistent with the overall distribution of the portfolio. The focus on Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals ensures that the prosecution remains within a specific technical framework. With 15 pending office actions, the company maintains a steady and distributed presence at the patent office.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 2 (13%) |
| §103 only | 5 (33%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 2 (13%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 6 (40%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BOYER, CHARLES I | 1 | 70.4% | +19.6% |
| MUDD, HENRY HOOPER | 1 | 69.9% | +24.0% |
| ALAM, AYAAN A | 1 | 38.4% | +35.6% |
| NICOLAS, FREDERICK C | 1 | 81.3% | +12.7% |
| DELCOTTO, GREGORY R | 1 | 54.0% | +75.8% |
| COUGHLIN, DANIEL F | 1 | 39.0% | +18.6% |
| KRINOS, EMILY LYNN | 1 | — | — |
| BARHAM, BETHANY P | 1 | 51.7% | +32.1% |
| PILSBURY, BRADY CHARLES | 1 | 47.6% | +49.6% |
| NGUYEN, JOHN P | 1 | 43.9% | +41.8% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18207017 | VOLATILE MATERIAL DISPENSER | HENSEL, BRENDAN A | 19d |
| 19176510 | STRIP FREE FLOOR SYSTEM | BOYER, CHARLES I | — |
| 18976252 | ALTERNATIVE CORROSION INHIBITORS | ALAM, AYAAN A | — |
| 18959425 | DISPENSER | NICOLAS, FREDERICK C | — |
| 18830889 | ACIDIC BATHROOM AND/OR MULTI-PURPOSE CLEANER WITHOUT CORROSION INHIBITOR | DELCOTTO, GREGORY R | — |
| 18817017 | SINGLE PHASE WATER-BASED INSECTICIDE | KRINOS, EMILY LYNN | — |
| 18778231 | WASP AND HORNET FORMULATIONS | BARHAM, BETHANY P | — |
| 18763825 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DISPENSING A VOLATILE MATERIAL | PILSBURY, BRADY CHARLES | — |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19176510 | STRIP FREE FLOOR SYSTEM | BOYER, CHARLES I | — |
| 19075152 | DISPENSER AND METHOD OF USE THEREOF | MUDD, HENRY HOOPER | — |
| 18976252 | ALTERNATIVE CORROSION INHIBITORS | ALAM, AYAAN A | — |
| 18959425 | DISPENSER | NICOLAS, FREDERICK C | — |
| 18830889 | ACIDIC BATHROOM AND/OR MULTI-PURPOSE CLEANER WITHOUT CORROSION INHIBITOR | DELCOTTO, GREGORY R | — |
| 18824307 | COMPOSITIONS PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE MICROBIAL INHIBITORY CONCENTRATIONS OF ANTIMICROBIAL COMPOUNDS | COUGHLIN, DANIEL F | — |
| 18778231 | WASP AND HORNET FORMULATIONS | BARHAM, BETHANY P | — |
| 18763825 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DISPENSING A VOLATILE MATERIAL | PILSBURY, BRADY CHARLES | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1611 | 4 |
| 1712 | 1 |
| 3754 | 1 |
| 1619 | 1 |
| 1758 | 1 |
| 3752 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19176510 | STRIP FREE FLOOR SYSTEM | BOYER, CHARLES I | 1712 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 11, 2025 |
| 19075152 | DISPENSER AND METHOD OF USE THEREOF | MUDD, HENRY HOOPER | — | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 10, 2025 |
| 18976252 | ALTERNATIVE CORROSION INHIBITORS | ALAM, AYAAN A | — | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 10, 2024 |
| 18959425 | DISPENSER | NICOLAS, FREDERICK C | 3754 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 25, 2024 |
| 18830889 | ACIDIC BATHROOM AND/OR MULTI-PURPOSE CLEANER WITHOUT CORROSION INHIBITOR | DELCOTTO, GREGORY R | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 11, 2024 |
| 18824307 | COMPOSITIONS PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE MICROBIAL INHIBITORY CONCENTRATIONS OF ANTIMICROBIAL COMPOUNDS | COUGHLIN, DANIEL F | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 04, 2024 |
| 18817017 | SINGLE PHASE WATER-BASED INSECTICIDE | KRINOS, EMILY LYNN | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 27, 2024 |
| 18778231 | WASP AND HORNET FORMULATIONS | BARHAM, BETHANY P | 1611 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 19, 2024 |
| 18763825 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DISPENSING A VOLATILE MATERIAL | PILSBURY, BRADY CHARLES | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 03, 2024 |
| 18658140 | ROACH GEL FORMULATIONS | NGUYEN, JOHN P | 1619 | §103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 08, 2024 |
| 18395221 | FORMULATIONS WITH REDUCED LEVELS OF VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS | MILLER, MAKENNA RYLEIGH | 1611 | §103 | Final Rejection | 72d | Pending | Dec 22, 2023 |
| 18207017 | VOLATILE MATERIAL DISPENSER | HENSEL, BRENDAN A | 1758 | §101§103§112 | Final Rejection | 19d | Pending | Jun 07, 2023 |
| 17989516 | OIL-BASED INSECTICIDAL AND INSECT REPELLENT COMPOSITIONS | PURDY, KYLE A | 1611 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 22d | Pending | Nov 17, 2022 |
| 17989565 | WATER-BASED INSECTICIDAL AND INSECT REPELLENT COMPOSITIONS | ISNOR, ALEXANDRA NICOLE | 1611 | §103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 17, 2022 |
| 17878629 | VOLATILE MATERIAL DISPENSER | ZHOU, QINGZHANG | 3752 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 9d overdue | Pending | Aug 01, 2022 |
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