Technology area: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals
7 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Scientific Holdings LLC has 7 pending office actions in Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals. All 7 matters are assigned to HOWELL, THEODORE R and to 1 distinct art unit. The docket is therefore concentrated in one examiner and one technical examination group, rather than distributed across multiple examination relationships.
HOWELL, THEODORE R is the busiest examiner, with 7 pending matters. This concentration supports a unified review of recurring claim interpretations, cited references, and amendment positions, subject to the differences among individual applications. Counsel can prioritize examiner-specific preparation and use the shared art-unit setting to organize a consistent prosecution strategy across the pending biotechnology and pharmaceutical matters.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 3 (43%) |
| §112 only | 1 (14%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 2 (29%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (14%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HOWELL, THEODORE R | 7 | 66.9% | +25.1% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18530198 | TERPENE-BASED COMPOSITIONS, PROCESSES, METHODOLOGIES FOR CREATION AND PRODUCTS THEREBY | HOWELL, THEODORE R | 57d |
| 19082306 | ELECTRONIC INHALATION DEVICE | HOWELL, THEODORE R | — |
| 18671814 | TERPENE-BASED COMPOSITIONS, PROCESSES, METHODOLOGIES FOR CREATION AND PRODUCTS THEREBY | HOWELL, THEODORE R | — |
| 18530143 | TERPENE-BASED COMPOSITIONS, METHODOLGIES FOR CREATION AND PRODUCTS THEREBY | HOWELL, THEODORE R | — |
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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18530198 | TERPENE-BASED COMPOSITIONS, PROCESSES, METHODOLOGIES FOR CREATION AND PRODUCTS THEREBY | HOWELL, THEODORE R | 57d |
| 19188202 | ELECTRONIC INHALATION DEVICE | HOWELL, THEODORE R | — |
| 19082306 | ELECTRONIC INHALATION DEVICE | HOWELL, THEODORE R | — |
| 18671814 | TERPENE-BASED COMPOSITIONS, PROCESSES, METHODOLOGIES FOR CREATION AND PRODUCTS THEREBY | HOWELL, THEODORE R | — |
| 18671969 | TERPENE-BASED COMPOSITIONS, PROCESSES, METHODOLOGIES FOR CREATION AND PRODUCTS THEREBY | HOWELL, THEODORE R | — |
| 18671916 | TERPENE-BASED COMPOSITIONS, PROCESSES, METHODOLOGIES FOR CREATION AND PRODUCTS THEREBY | HOWELL, THEODORE R | — |
| 18530143 | TERPENE-BASED COMPOSITIONS, METHODOLGIES FOR CREATION AND PRODUCTS THEREBY | HOWELL, THEODORE R | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1628 | 7 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19188202 | ELECTRONIC INHALATION DEVICE | HOWELL, THEODORE R | 1628 | §112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 24, 2025 |
| 19082306 | ELECTRONIC INHALATION DEVICE | HOWELL, THEODORE R | 1628 | §103§112Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 18, 2025 |
| 18671814 | TERPENE-BASED COMPOSITIONS, PROCESSES, METHODOLOGIES FOR CREATION AND PRODUCTS THEREBY | HOWELL, THEODORE R | 1628 | §101§102§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 22, 2024 |
| 18671969 | TERPENE-BASED COMPOSITIONS, PROCESSES, METHODOLOGIES FOR CREATION AND PRODUCTS THEREBY | HOWELL, THEODORE R | 1628 | §112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 22, 2024 |
| 18671916 | TERPENE-BASED COMPOSITIONS, PROCESSES, METHODOLOGIES FOR CREATION AND PRODUCTS THEREBY | HOWELL, THEODORE R | 1628 | §112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 22, 2024 |
| 18530198 | TERPENE-BASED COMPOSITIONS, PROCESSES, METHODOLOGIES FOR CREATION AND PRODUCTS THEREBY | HOWELL, THEODORE R | 1628 | §101§102§112 | Non-Final OA | 57d | Pending | Dec 05, 2023 |
| 18530143 | TERPENE-BASED COMPOSITIONS, METHODOLGIES FOR CREATION AND PRODUCTS THEREBY | HOWELL, THEODORE R | 1628 | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 05, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialScientific Holdings LLC has 7 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Theodore R Howell has the most, with 7 of Scientific Holdings LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals (USPTO Tech Center 1600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
