Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Singao (Xuzhou) Biotech Co. Ltd. currently has 2 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These matters are concentrated within 1 distinct art unit, suggesting a very specific technical focus for the company's current patent applications.
The prosecution is split between 2 distinct examiners. JOSEPH CULLEN MERCHLINSKY is designated as the busiest examiner, currently managing 1 pending office action. This means the pending office actions are distributed equally, with each examiner handling exactly one action.
For practitioners, the use of 1 distinct art unit for the pending office actions indicates that the portfolio is being reviewed by a single specialized group at the patent office. Despite this art unit concentration, the involvement of multiple examiners provides different perspectives on the active cases. This structure allows the company to test its claims against different officials within the same technical division.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MERCHLINSKY, JOSEPH CULLEN | 1 | 5.9% | -6.3% |
| DEES, NIKKI H | 1 | 21.9% | +20.7% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18552287 | NOVEL SODIUM BUTYRATE PARTICLE AND PREPARATION METHOD THEREFOR | MERCHLINSKY, JOSEPH CULLEN | — |
| 18271652 | PIG RAISING METHOD FOR REDUCING PIG BACK-FAT THICKNESS AND/OR INCREASING LEAN MEAT PERCENTAGE, COMPOSITION, AND USE THEREOF IN PREPARATION OF PIG FEED | DEES, NIKKI H | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18271652 | PIG RAISING METHOD FOR REDUCING PIG BACK-FAT THICKNESS AND/OR INCREASING LEAN MEAT PERCENTAGE, COMPOSITION, AND USE THEREOF IN PREPARATION OF PIG FEED | DEES, NIKKI H | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1791 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18552287 | NOVEL SODIUM BUTYRATE PARTICLE AND PREPARATION METHOD THEREFOR | MERCHLINSKY, JOSEPH CULLEN | 1791 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 25, 2023 |
| 18271652 | PIG RAISING METHOD FOR REDUCING PIG BACK-FAT THICKNESS AND/OR INCREASING LEAN MEAT PERCENTAGE, COMPOSITION, AND USE THEREOF IN PREPARATION OF PIG FEED | DEES, NIKKI H | 1791 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 10, 2023 |
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