Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Chemistry & Materials
5 pending office actions • 3 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 9 patents granted in the last 365 days
Snf Group currently faces 5 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These matters are assigned to 5 distinct examiners, meaning that every pending action is under the review of a different official. Despite this variety in personnel, the cases are concentrated within 3 distinct art units. This suggests that while the technical subject matter is focused enough to fall within a limited number of art units, the individual applications are being scrutinized by a group of 5 examiners.
The busiest examiner for the portfolio is LEE, DORIS L, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. Given that there are 5 pending actions and 5 distinct examiners, each examiner, including LEE, DORIS L, is currently handling 1 pending action. This distribution indicates a lack of examiner-specific concentration, requiring the applicant to adapt to 5 different examination styles. The presence of 5 pending actions across 3 art units highlights a diverse but technically related set of applications within the Chemistry & Materials field.
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%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (60%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LEE, DORIS L | 1 | 58.7% | +8.8% |
| RAGHU, GANAPATHIRAM | 1 | 73.6% | +26.4% |
| TUCKER, PHILIP C | 1 | 24.6% | +18.7% |
| TESKIN, FRED M | 1 | 89.6% | +8.0% |
| XU, JIANGTIAN | 1 | 65.3% | +35.8% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18255283 | MULTI-PHASE SUSPENSION OF A WATER-SOLUBLE POLYMER | XU, JIANGTIAN | 3d overdue |
| 18565662 | BIO-SOURCED CATIONIC HIGH CHARGE DENSITY POLYMER | LEE, DORIS L | — |
| 18562598 | METHOD FOR OBTAINING BIO-SOURCED (METH)ALLYLSULFONATE ALKALI SALT | TUCKER, PHILIP C | — |
| 18562722 | METHOD FOR OBTAINING A BIO-SOURCED-MONOMER FROM RENEWABLE DIMETHYLAMINOETHANOL | TESKIN, FRED M | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18255283 | MULTI-PHASE SUSPENSION OF A WATER-SOLUBLE POLYMER | XU, JIANGTIAN | 3d overdue |
| 18562742 | METHOD FOR OBTAINING BIO-SOURCED SUSBTITUTED ALKYL(METH)ACRYLAMIDE | RAGHU, GANAPATHIRAM | — |
| 18562598 | METHOD FOR OBTAINING BIO-SOURCED (METH)ALLYLSULFONATE ALKALI SALT | TUCKER, PHILIP C | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1652 | 1 |
| 1745 | 1 |
| 1762 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18565662 | BIO-SOURCED CATIONIC HIGH CHARGE DENSITY POLYMER | LEE, DORIS L | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 30, 2023 |
| 18562742 | METHOD FOR OBTAINING BIO-SOURCED SUSBTITUTED ALKYL(METH)ACRYLAMIDE | RAGHU, GANAPATHIRAM | 1652 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 20, 2023 |
| 18562598 | METHOD FOR OBTAINING BIO-SOURCED (METH)ALLYLSULFONATE ALKALI SALT | TUCKER, PHILIP C | 1745 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 20, 2023 |
| 18562722 | METHOD FOR OBTAINING A BIO-SOURCED-MONOMER FROM RENEWABLE DIMETHYLAMINOETHANOL | TESKIN, FRED M | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 20, 2023 |
| 18255283 | MULTI-PHASE SUSPENSION OF A WATER-SOLUBLE POLYMER | XU, JIANGTIAN | 1762 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 3d overdue | Pending | May 31, 2023 |
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