Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

S. C. Johnson & Son, Inc.

6 pending office actions • 3 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 26 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

6
Total Pending OAs
4
Non-Final OAs
1
Final Rejections
1
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 5 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

1
Overdue
0
Due this week
2
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
2
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. 5 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (1)Due ≤ 30 days (2)Due later (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.

0
Hard (0%)
6
Medium (100%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only5 (83%)
§102 only1 (17%)

Industry Mix

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

4
Life Sciences
67% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
2
Mechanical / Eng
33% 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.

60 h
Manual time on pending OAs
12 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
21 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.5 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
ZHOU, QINGZHANG 2 67.5% +24.4%
MILLER, MAKENNA RYLEIGH 1
HENSEL, BRENDAN A 1 66.9% +29.7%
ISNOR, ALEXANDRA NICOLE 1 35.3% +68.8%
PURDY, KYLE A 1 40.8% +36.8%

Interview Candidates (5)

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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18075040 PIEZOELECTRIC ACTIVE EMITTING DEVICE WITH IMPROVED AIR FLOW OUTPUT ZHOU, QINGZHANG 150d overdue
18207017 VOLATILE MATERIAL DISPENSER HENSEL, BRENDAN A 19d
17989516 OIL-BASED INSECTICIDAL AND INSECT REPELLENT COMPOSITIONS PURDY, KYLE A 22d
18665259 NOZZLE INSERT FOR A DISPENSING SYSTEM ZHOU, QINGZHANG 62d
17989565 WATER-BASED INSECTICIDAL AND INSECT REPELLENT COMPOSITIONS ISNOR, ALEXANDRA NICOLE

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1611 3
3752 2
1758 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18665259 NOZZLE INSERT FOR A DISPENSING SYSTEM ZHOU, QINGZHANG 3752 §102 Non-Final OA 62d Pending May 15, 2024
18395221 FORMULATIONS WITH REDUCED LEVELS OF VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS MILLER, MAKENNA RYLEIGH 1611 §103 Non-Final OA 72d Pending Dec 22, 2023
18207017 VOLATILE MATERIAL DISPENSER HENSEL, BRENDAN A 1758 §103 Non-Final OA 19d Pending Jun 07, 2023
18075040 PIEZOELECTRIC ACTIVE EMITTING DEVICE WITH IMPROVED AIR FLOW OUTPUT ZHOU, QINGZHANG 3752 §103 Final Rejection 150d overdue Pending Dec 05, 2022
17989565 WATER-BASED INSECTICIDAL AND INSECT REPELLENT COMPOSITIONS ISNOR, ALEXANDRA NICOLE 1611 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Nov 17, 2022
17989516 OIL-BASED INSECTICIDAL AND INSECT REPELLENT COMPOSITIONS PURDY, KYLE A 1611 §103 Non-Final OA 22d Pending Nov 17, 2022

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