Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Chemistry & Materials
39 pending office actions • 17 art units • 35 examiners • 0 of 39 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 26 patents granted in the last 365 days
Symrise AG maintains an active portfolio with 37 pending office actions, all concentrated within the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. These actions are distributed among 33 distinct examiners, indicating that the vast majority of pending matters are being reviewed by different individuals. This high number of 33 examiners suggests a broad exposure to various examiner perspectives within the biotechnology sector, requiring a highly adaptable prosecution strategy.
The 37 pending actions are spread across 17 distinct art units, which is less than the total number of pending actions. This concentration in 17 art units relative to 37 actions implies that multiple filings are often grouped within the same specialized administrative units. KAMM, JUDITH MARIE is the busiest examiner, responsible for 3 pending office actions, which is the highest individual workload among the 33 distinct examiners. This distribution shows that no single examiner holds a dominant share of the 37 pending actions.
Managing 37 pending actions across 17 art units requires a coordinated effort to address the requirements of 33 different examiners. The busiest examiner, KAMM, JUDITH MARIE, handles 3 of these actions, while the remaining actions are divided among the other examiners. This distribution highlights a portfolio that is extensively dispersed across the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals sector at the patent office. The use of 17 art units indicates that the company's filings are diverse enough to be reviewed by many different specialized groups within the patent office.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 16 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. 16 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 | 2 (5%) |
| §103 only | 13 (33%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 5 (13%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 19 (49%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KAMM, JUDITH MARIE | 3 | 43.5% | +56.6% |
| LI, CHANGQING | 2 | 29.3% | +33.6% |
| TIEN, LUCY MINYU | 2 | 59.3% | +39.2% |
| LOVE, TREVOR M | 1 | 43.0% | +26.7% |
| ALAWADI, SARAH | 1 | 37.5% | +38.4% |
| AHVAZI, BIJAN | 1 | 63.2% | +47.3% |
| CHAWLA, JYOTI | 1 | 52.7% | +30.3% |
| SASAN, ARADHANA | 1 | 64.5% | +26.2% |
| YU, HONG | 1 | 30.9% | +5.6% |
| WHITELEY, JESSICA | 1 | 88.6% | +7.0% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18009288 | Compositions Comprising Natural Polymers and One or More (Bio)-Alkanediols | LIU, TRACY | 103d overdue |
| 17909693 | COSMETIC OR PHARMACEUTICAL USE OF AVENANTHRAMIDE L | STEINKE, SEAN JAMES | 66d overdue |
| 17774777 | Colored particles | ABBAS, ABDULRAHMAN MUSTAFA | 44d overdue |
| 18009312 | Compositions Comprising Antimicrobials and (Bio)-Alkanediols for Skin Protection | LEE, ANDREW P | 32d overdue |
| 18566823 | COMPOSITIONS FOR FIGHTING MALODORS | SU, SUSAN SHAN | 17d overdue |
| 18283565 | A LIQUID DETERGENT COMPOSITION | OGDEN JR, NECHOLUS | 12d |
| 18443435 | ANTIMICROBIAL MIXTURE | YU, HONG | 13d |
| 18247026 | Aroma Composition Having a Grill-Type Flavour Profile | SHELLHAMMER, JAMES PAUL | 23d |
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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18301004 | Compositions Comprising Lipophilic Compounds and One or More (Bio)-Alkanediols | TIEN, LUCY MINYU | 10d overdue |
| 18009284 | Compositions Comprising Lipophilic Compounds and One or More (Bio)-Alkanediols | TIEN, LUCY MINYU | 10d overdue |
| 18837180 | Composition Comprising Microcapsules for Solid Consumer Products | LOVE, TREVOR M | — |
| 18833384 | New Coolants, and Preparations Containing Same | KAMM, JUDITH MARIE | — |
| 18784266 | ANTIMICROBIAL MIXTURES COMPRISING AT LEAST ONE HYDROXYPHENONE DERIVATIVE | ALAWADI, SARAH | — |
| 18832702 | COMPOSITIONS (III) | LI, CHANGQING | — |
| 18711193 | FRAGRANCES AND FRAGRANCE MIXTURES | AHVAZI, BIJAN | — |
| 18700377 | RUBUSOSIDE GLUCOSIDES | CHAWLA, JYOTI | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1612 | 6 |
| 1791 | 5 |
| 1761 | 4 |
| 1611 | 3 |
| 1614 | 2 |
| 1793 | 2 |
| 1619 | 2 |
| 1615 | 1 |
| 3781 | 1 |
| 1617 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18837180 | Composition Comprising Microcapsules for Solid Consumer Products | LOVE, TREVOR M | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 08, 2024 |
| 18833384 | New Coolants, and Preparations Containing Same | KAMM, JUDITH MARIE | 1611 | §102§103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 25, 2024 |
| 18784266 | ANTIMICROBIAL MIXTURES COMPRISING AT LEAST ONE HYDROXYPHENONE DERIVATIVE | ALAWADI, SARAH | — | §102§103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 25, 2024 |
| 18832702 | COMPOSITIONS (III) | LI, CHANGQING | — | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 24, 2024 |
| 18711193 | FRAGRANCES AND FRAGRANCE MIXTURES | AHVAZI, BIJAN | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 17, 2024 |
| 18700377 | RUBUSOSIDE GLUCOSIDES | CHAWLA, JYOTI | 1791 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 11, 2024 |
| 18687161 | ANTIMICROBIAL COMBINATIONS | SASAN, ARADHANA | 1615 | §102§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 27, 2024 |
| 18443435 | ANTIMICROBIAL MIXTURE | YU, HONG | 1614 | §102§103Other | Non-Final OA | 13d | Pending | Feb 16, 2024 |
| 18577496 | Fragrance or Aroma Compositions Accepted or Preferred by Pets | WHITELEY, JESSICA | — | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 08, 2024 |
| 18577687 | Biobased Core-Shell Microcapsules | LING, DORIS | 1761 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 08, 2024 |
| 18566823 | COMPOSITIONS FOR FIGHTING MALODORS | SU, SUSAN SHAN | 3781 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 17d overdue | Pending | Dec 04, 2023 |
| 18556370 | PREPARATIONS COMPRISING A FLAVORING AND TEA EXTRACT | LIU, DEBORAH YANG-HAO | 1791 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 20, 2023 |
| 18283565 | A LIQUID DETERGENT COMPOSITION | OGDEN JR, NECHOLUS | 1761 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 12d | Pending | Sep 22, 2023 |
| 18281339 | A FRAGRANCE MIXTURE CONTAINING ISOCITRONELLOL | CONIGLIO, AUDREA JUNE BUCKLEY | 1617 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 11, 2023 |
| 18547173 | BIOTECHNOLOGICAL PRODUCTION OF MEAT-LIKE FLAVOURINGS | LI, CHANGQING | 1791 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 21, 2023 |
| 18277133 | 2,6,6-TRIMETHYL-NORPINAN-2-OL AS AN ODORIFEROUS SUBSTANCE | WALKER, AJA ARYANNA | 1761 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 14, 2023 |
| 18276518 | MEDICAMENT FOR PREVENTION AND TREATMENT OF HYPERPIGMENTATION | WISTNER, SARAH CLINKSCALES | 1616 | §102§103§112DP | Final Rejection | 26d overdue | Pending | Aug 09, 2023 |
| 18267563 | CATALYST SYSTEM | WITHERSPOON, SIKARL A | 1692 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 15, 2023 |
| 18256458 | PRODUCTION OF PROTEIN-CARBOHYDRATE CONJUGATES AS EMULSIFIERS | DIVIESTI, KARLA ISOBEL | 1792 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 08, 2023 |
| 18265840 | A METHOD FOR FIGHTING MICROORGANISMS USING MENTHOL DERIVATIVES | ROBERTS, LEZAH | 1612 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 07, 2023 |
| 18301051 | Compositions Comprising (Bio)-Alkanediols with Antimicrobials for Product Protection | KAMM, JUDITH MARIE | 1611 | §103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 14, 2023 |
| 18301004 | Compositions Comprising Lipophilic Compounds and One or More (Bio)-Alkanediols | TIEN, LUCY MINYU | 1612 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | 10d overdue | Pending | Apr 14, 2023 |
| 18247026 | Aroma Composition Having a Grill-Type Flavour Profile | SHELLHAMMER, JAMES PAUL | 1793 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 23d | Pending | Mar 28, 2023 |
| 18025333 | STARCH-BASED CLOUDING EMULSION AND SPRAY-DRIED STARCH-BASED CLOUDING AGENT FOR BEVERAGES | KOHLER, STEPHANIE A | 1791 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 4d overdue | Pending | Mar 08, 2023 |
| 18019793 | Process for the Preparation of Microcapsules | MRUK, BRIAN P | 1761 | §103DP | Final Rejection | 54d | Pending | Feb 03, 2023 |
| 18019783 | Polyurea/Polyurethane Microcapsules | WASHVILLE, JEFFREY D | 1766 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 16d overdue | Pending | Feb 03, 2023 |
| 18019786 | Method for Producing Microcapsules | WERTZ, ASHLEE ELIZABETH | 1612 | §103DP | Final Rejection | 58d overdue | Pending | Feb 03, 2023 |
| 18009288 | Compositions Comprising Natural Polymers and One or More (Bio)-Alkanediols | LIU, TRACY | 1614 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | 103d overdue | Pending | Dec 08, 2022 |
| 18009295 | Compositions Comprising (Bio)-Alkanediols with Antimicrobials for Product Protection | KAMM, JUDITH MARIE | 1611 | §103Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 08, 2022 |
| 18009284 | Compositions Comprising Lipophilic Compounds and One or More (Bio)-Alkanediols | TIEN, LUCY MINYU | 1612 | §103Other | Final Rejection | 10d overdue | Pending | Dec 08, 2022 |
| 18009289 | Compositions Comprising UV-Filters and One or More (Bio)-Alkanediols | HOLLOMAN, NANNETTE | 1612 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 08, 2022 |
| 18009312 | Compositions Comprising Antimicrobials and (Bio)-Alkanediols for Skin Protection | LEE, ANDREW P | 1691 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 32d overdue | Pending | Dec 08, 2022 |
| 17909693 | COSMETIC OR PHARMACEUTICAL USE OF AVENANTHRAMIDE L | STEINKE, SEAN JAMES | 1619 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 66d overdue | Pending | Sep 06, 2022 |
| 17909342 | COMPOSITION COMPRISING AN AVENANTHRAMIDE OR AN ANALOGUE THEREOF WITH IMPROVED STABILITY | OLSEN, KAELEIGH ELIZABETH | 1619 | §102§103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 02, 2022 |
| 17774777 | Colored particles | ABBAS, ABDULRAHMAN MUSTAFA | 1612 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 44d overdue | Pending | May 05, 2022 |
| 17615894 | A COOLING PREPARATION | BERRIOS, JENNIFER A | 1613 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 02, 2021 |
| 17611891 | OIL-IN-WATER MACROEMULSION | SOROUSH, LAYLA | 1622 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 16, 2021 |
| 17435777 | MIXTURE COMPRISING D-ALLULOSE AND TASTE MODIFYING COMPOUNDS | KERSHAW, KELLY P | 1791 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 27d | Pending | Sep 02, 2021 |
| 15780346 | SUBSTANCE MIXTURES | MORNHINWEG, JEFFREY P | 1793 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 27, 2018 |
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