Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Shaklee Corporation is active in the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area with 1 pending office action. This single active matter indicates a focused prosecution phase for the company's intellectual property. The firm is currently working to resolve this outstanding action to advance its application toward allowance.
The portfolio is reviewed by 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. This one-to-one ratio between examiners and art units shows that the company's current work is concentrated within a specific technical department. Practitioners can expect a consistent examination environment, as there is no variation in the personnel or departmental standards currently being applied to the portfolio.
ARMSTRONG, SUSANNAH SIPPLE is the busiest examiner for this company. This examiner is responsible for the 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Since ARMSTRONG, SUSANNAH SIPPLE handles the only active matter, the outcome of the entire pending portfolio depends on the interaction with this single individual. The concentration of work under ARMSTRONG, SUSANNAH SIPPLE allows for a focus on this examiner's specific requirements and historical patterns.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 1 (100%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ARMSTRONG, SUSANNAH SIPPLE | 1 | 30.0% | +53.1% |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18227138 | BOTANICAL EXTRACT BLEND FOR USE IN SKIN CARE | ARMSTRONG, SUSANNAH SIPPLE | 34d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1616 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18227138 | BOTANICAL EXTRACT BLEND FOR USE IN SKIN CARE | ARMSTRONG, SUSANNAH SIPPLE | 1616 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | 34d | Pending | Jul 27, 2023 |
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