Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Chemistry & Materials
5 pending office actions • 5 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Sml Limited currently has 4 pending office actions within the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. These active matters are distributed across 4 distinct art units, indicating a broad range of subject matter even within the biotechnology sector. The involvement of 4 distinct examiners suggests that each pending action is being reviewed by a different individual, which may lead to varied prosecution experiences depending on examiner-specific tendencies and the technical standards of the 4 distinct art units.
The busiest examiner identified for this portfolio is MITCHELL, EDWIN COLEMAN, who is currently handling 1 pending office action. With 4 pending office actions and 4 distinct examiners, the workload is perfectly distributed, meaning no single examiner has a disproportionate influence over the portfolio's immediate outcomes. The fact that there are also 4 distinct art units involved means that the company's patent efforts are highly diversified across different technical groups at the patent office. This structure requires the applicant to manage 4 distinct examiners, necessitating a highly adaptable prosecution strategy to address the unique requirements of each individual matter.
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 | 2 (40%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 2 (40%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (20%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MITCHELL, EDWIN COLEMAN | 1 | 32.1% | +64.8% |
| JOHNSON, DANIELLE D | 1 | 45.0% | +12.9% |
| LANGEL, WAYNE A | 1 | 78.4% | +23.2% |
| WILLIAMS, EMMALEE RAE | 1 | 0.0% | +0.0% |
| SMITH, JENNIFER A | 1 | 61.0% | +26.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18262103 | AN ORGANIC AGRICULTURAL COMPOSITION | JOHNSON, DANIELLE D | — |
| 18022068 | PESTICIDAL COMPOSITION COMPRISING ELEMENTAL SULPHUR AND CHOLINE SALT OF PELARGONIC ACID | WILLIAMS, EMMALEE RAE | — |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17259112 | NOVEL AGRICULTURAL COMPOSITION | SMITH, JENNIFER A | 9d overdue |
| 18689375 | NOVEL PESTICIDAL COMPOSITION COMPRISING ELEMENTAL SULPHUR AND ACYNONAPYR | MITCHELL, EDWIN COLEMAN | — |
| 18262103 | AN ORGANIC AGRICULTURAL COMPOSITION | JOHNSON, DANIELLE D | — |
| 18022085 | AN ORGANIC AGRICULTURAL COMPOSITION | LANGEL, WAYNE A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1619 | 1 |
| 1617 | 1 |
| 1736 | 1 |
| 1614 | 1 |
| 1731 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18689375 | NOVEL PESTICIDAL COMPOSITION COMPRISING ELEMENTAL SULPHUR AND ACYNONAPYR | MITCHELL, EDWIN COLEMAN | 1619 | §103DP | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 05, 2024 |
| 18262103 | AN ORGANIC AGRICULTURAL COMPOSITION | JOHNSON, DANIELLE D | 1617 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 19, 2023 |
| 18022085 | AN ORGANIC AGRICULTURAL COMPOSITION | LANGEL, WAYNE A | 1736 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 17, 2023 |
| 18022068 | PESTICIDAL COMPOSITION COMPRISING ELEMENTAL SULPHUR AND CHOLINE SALT OF PELARGONIC ACID | WILLIAMS, EMMALEE RAE | 1614 | §103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 17, 2023 |
| 17259112 | NOVEL AGRICULTURAL COMPOSITION | SMITH, JENNIFER A | 1731 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 9d overdue | Pending | Jan 08, 2021 |
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