Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Chemistry & Materials
7 pending office actions • 4 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days
Sixring Inc. has 7 pending office actions in Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals. The matters span 6 examiners and 4 art units, reflecting a broad distribution of prosecution responsibility across the portfolio. This structure increases the importance of centralized docket management and consistent technical framing.
MONSHIPOURI, MARYAM is the busiest examiner, with 2 pending matters. That examiner has the largest recorded concentration, but the remaining actions are distributed among other examiners. Counsel should use the shared matters to identify potentially consistent positions while avoiding assumptions that one examiner's treatment will apply across the portfolio.
The art-unit distribution also suggests that claim scope may encounter different examination contexts. A coordinated disclosure and terminology review can reduce unnecessary variation, while each response should remain tied to the prior art and objections in its assigned matter. Tracking examiner-specific amendments will help preserve a coherent overall claim strategy.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 | 1 (14%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 2 (29%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (57%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MONSHIPOURI, MARYAM | 2 | 79.2% | +37.2% |
| ROBINSON, RENEE E | 1 | 73.7% | +24.2% |
| CALANDRA, ANTHONY J | 1 | 62.9% | +18.6% |
| RUSSELL, STEPHEN MATTHEW | 1 | 63.2% | +34.6% |
| RAGHU, GANAPATHIRAM | 1 | 73.7% | +26.5% |
| REGLAS, GEORGIANA C | 1 | 39.2% | +33.4% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18460258 | Cellulose for Use in Cellulosic Ethanol-Producing Applications | RAGHU, GANAPATHIRAM | 16d overdue |
| 18452169 | Improvements In Biomass Fermentation into Ethanol | MONSHIPOURI, MARYAM | 11d overdue |
| 18750511 | BIOMASS DELIGNIFICATION | CALANDRA, ANTHONY J | 62d |
| 18853369 | METHOD TO MANUFACTURE BIOFUEL | ROBINSON, RENEE E | — |
| 18392952 | IMPROVEMENTS IN BIOMASS DELIGNIFICATION | RUSSELL, STEPHEN MATTHEW | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18117163 | Improved Cellulose to Cellobiose Conversion Process | REGLAS, GEORGIANA C | 35d overdue |
| 18460258 | Cellulose for Use in Cellulosic Ethanol-Producing Applications | RAGHU, GANAPATHIRAM | 16d overdue |
| 18452169 | Improvements In Biomass Fermentation into Ethanol | MONSHIPOURI, MARYAM | 11d overdue |
| 18750511 | BIOMASS DELIGNIFICATION | CALANDRA, ANTHONY J | 62d |
| 18853369 | METHOD TO MANUFACTURE BIOFUEL | ROBINSON, RENEE E | — |
| 18437615 | NOVEL PRETREATMENT FOR RECALCITRANT BIOMASS FOR BIOGAS GENERATION | MONSHIPOURI, MARYAM | — |
| 18392952 | IMPROVEMENTS IN BIOMASS DELIGNIFICATION | RUSSELL, STEPHEN MATTHEW | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1651 | 3 |
| 1748 | 2 |
| 1772 | 1 |
| 1652 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18853369 | METHOD TO MANUFACTURE BIOFUEL | ROBINSON, RENEE E | 1772 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 01, 2024 |
| 18750511 | BIOMASS DELIGNIFICATION | CALANDRA, ANTHONY J | 1748 | §103§112Other | Non-Final OA | 62d | Pending | Jun 21, 2024 |
| 18437615 | NOVEL PRETREATMENT FOR RECALCITRANT BIOMASS FOR BIOGAS GENERATION | MONSHIPOURI, MARYAM | 1651 | §103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 09, 2024 |
| 18392952 | IMPROVEMENTS IN BIOMASS DELIGNIFICATION | RUSSELL, STEPHEN MATTHEW | 1748 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 21, 2023 |
| 18460258 | Cellulose for Use in Cellulosic Ethanol-Producing Applications | RAGHU, GANAPATHIRAM | 1652 | §101§102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 16d overdue | Pending | Sep 01, 2023 |
| 18452169 | Improvements In Biomass Fermentation into Ethanol | MONSHIPOURI, MARYAM | 1651 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 11d overdue | Pending | Aug 18, 2023 |
| 18117163 | Improved Cellulose to Cellobiose Conversion Process | REGLAS, GEORGIANA C | 1651 | §103DP | Final Rejection | 35d overdue | Pending | Mar 03, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialSixring Inc. has 7 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 4 art units and 6 examiners.
Maryam Monshipouri has the most, with 2 of Sixring Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals (USPTO Tech Center 1600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
