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
Sacheu Beauty Inc. is currently managing 2 pending office actions within the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. These 2 actions are concentrated within 1 distinct art unit, which suggests a very focused technical scope for their current filings. The use of only 1 unit for 2 actions indicates that multiple applications are being reviewed by the same specialized department within the patent office, which can help in maintaining technical consistency across the portfolio.
The company is working with 2 distinct examiners to resolve these 2 pending actions. Caralynne E Helm is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently overseeing 1 pending action. Because there are 2 examiners for 2 actions, no single examiner is handling more than one case. This lack of examiner overlap, even with Caralynne E Helm holding the busiest title at 1 action, means that prosecution strategies must be tailored to 2 different individuals. However, the concentration within 1 distinct art unit suggests that the technical arguments used across the 2 actions may share common foundations.
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 |
|---|---|
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HELM, CARALYNNE E | 1 | 28.9% | +49.6% |
| ROSSI, JULIA ANNE LORRAIN | 1 | 45.7% | +61.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19334451 | PEEL-OFF LIP LINER STAIN | HELM, CARALYNNE E | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18675021 | PEEL-OFF LIP LINER STAIN | ROSSI, JULIA ANNE LORRAIN | 9d |
| 19334451 | PEEL-OFF LIP LINER STAIN | HELM, CARALYNNE E | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1615 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19334451 | PEEL-OFF LIP LINER STAIN | HELM, CARALYNNE E | 1615 | §103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 19, 2025 |
| 18675021 | PEEL-OFF LIP LINER STAIN | ROSSI, JULIA ANNE LORRAIN | 1615 | §103§112DP | Final Rejection | 9d | Pending | May 27, 2024 |
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