Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Chemistry & Materials
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Taminco BV is engaged in the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. The company currently faces 3 pending office actions. These actions are spread across 3 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units. This broad distribution suggests that the company is pursuing multiple diverse technical paths within the biotechnology field simultaneously.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is WALKER, AJA ARYANNA. This examiner is responsible for 1 pending office action. With 3 pending office actions and 3 distinct examiners, the workload is evenly distributed. Each examiner, including WALKER, AJA ARYANNA, handles exactly 1 pending action. This lack of concentration means that the company must manage interactions with 3 distinct examiners. Such a decentralized profile requires a broader prosecution strategy, as the outcomes are determined by different individuals across 3 distinct art units. This structure indicates that Taminco BV's current patent activity is not confined to a single examiner's discretion.
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 | 1 (33%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WALKER, AJA ARYANNA | 1 | 57.1% | +50.0% |
| HOLT, ANDRIAE M | 1 | 49.3% | +22.9% |
| WORSHAM, JESSICA N | 1 | 56.3% | +56.3% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17754657 | ANTIMICROBIAL COMPOSITION FOR ANIMAL FEED | WORSHAM, JESSICA N | 26d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17754657 | ANTIMICROBIAL COMPOSITION FOR ANIMAL FEED | WORSHAM, JESSICA N | 26d |
| 18546150 | FRAGRANCE DELIVERY COMPOSITIONS | WALKER, AJA ARYANNA | — |
| 17907504 | METHODS OF TREATING SOIL | HOLT, ANDRIAE M | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1761 | 1 |
| 1614 | 1 |
| 1615 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18546150 | FRAGRANCE DELIVERY COMPOSITIONS | WALKER, AJA ARYANNA | 1761 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 11, 2023 |
| 17907504 | METHODS OF TREATING SOIL | HOLT, ANDRIAE M | 1614 | §103§112DP | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 27, 2022 |
| 17754657 | ANTIMICROBIAL COMPOSITION FOR ANIMAL FEED | WORSHAM, JESSICA N | 1615 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 26d | Pending | Apr 08, 2022 |
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