Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Chemistry & Materials
6 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Scientific Holdings LLC has 6 pending office actions within the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. These actions are distributed across 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units, indicating a concentration of the workload despite the number of pending matters. This focus within a technology area suggests that the company's intellectual property is deeply rooted in specific biological or pharmaceutical advancements.
The busiest examiner, HOWELL, THEODORE R, is responsible for 5 pending office actions. This represents the vast majority of the company's 6 pending office actions, leaving only a single action for the other examiner. Because the actions are confined to the art units involved, the prosecution strategy appears heavily focused on specific technical subgroups within the biotechnology sector. The high volume of work with the busiest examiner means that the relationship with this specific individual is the most critical factor in the company's current patent prosecution outcomes.
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 (50%) |
| §103 only | 1 (17%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 2 (33%) |
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 | 5 | 66.8% | +25.3% |
| KUMAR, SRILAKSHMI K | 1 | 49.7% | +15.5% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 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 |
| 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 6 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 |
| 18673162 | SOLVENTLESS METHOD OF PRODUCING COATED BOTANICAL SUBSTRATES | KUMAR, SRILAKSHMI K | — |
| 18671916 | TERPENE-BASED COMPOSITIONS, PROCESSES, METHODOLOGIES FOR CREATION AND PRODUCTS THEREBY | 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 | — |
| 18530143 | TERPENE-BASED COMPOSITIONS, METHODOLGIES FOR CREATION AND PRODUCTS THEREBY | HOWELL, THEODORE R | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1628 | 4 |
| 1748 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18673162 | SOLVENTLESS METHOD OF PRODUCING COATED BOTANICAL SUBSTRATES | KUMAR, SRILAKSHMI K | 1748 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 23, 2024 |
| 18671916 | TERPENE-BASED COMPOSITIONS, PROCESSES, METHODOLOGIES FOR CREATION AND PRODUCTS THEREBY | HOWELL, THEODORE R | 1628 | §112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 22, 2024 |
| 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 | — | §112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 22, 2024 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
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