Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Chemistry & Materials
10 pending office actions • 5 art units • 9 examiners • 0 of 10 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 20 patents granted in the last 365 days
The Clorox Company manages an active portfolio with 10 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are distributed across 9 distinct examiners, including MELISSA S MERCIER who is the busiest examiner with 2 pending office actions. The prosecution activity spans 5 distinct art units, reflecting the diverse chemical and material applications within the company's research and development efforts.
Practitioners must coordinate across these 5 distinct art units to ensure consistency in the company's patenting strategy. While MELISSA S MERCIER has the highest individual workload, the fact that there are 9 distinct examiners for 10 pending office actions shows that many cases are being handled by different individuals. This high ratio of examiners to pending actions suggests that the company must adapt to many different examination styles simultaneously.
The 5 distinct art units involved indicate that the filings are not concentrated in a single administrative silo. With 9 distinct examiners involved, the outcome of the 10 pending office actions will depend on a wide variety of examiner-specific factors, including the approach taken by MELISSA S MERCIER, making a uniform approach unlikely to succeed.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 | 4 (40%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 2 (20%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (40%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MERCIER, MELISSA S | 2 | 72.1% | +5.8% |
| BOYER, CHARLES I | 1 | 70.4% | +19.6% |
| KHAN, AMINA S | 1 | 47.5% | +43.0% |
| PETERSON, ALANNA KAY | 1 | 40.7% | +27.8% |
| HENSON, KATINA N | 1 | 56.6% | +31.9% |
| WEBB, WALTER E | 1 | 46.3% | +18.8% |
| DELCOTTO, GREGORY R | 1 | 54.0% | +75.8% |
| HARRIS, BRITTANY SHARON | 1 | 48.6% | +31.7% |
| SALVATORE, LYNDA | 1 | 64.1% | +19.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17374420 | COMPOSTABLE NONWOVEN WITH LOW EXTENSIBILITY | SALVATORE, LYNDA | 34d |
| 18974388 | ACIDIC CLEANING AND DISINFECTING COMPOSITIONS | BOYER, CHARLES I | — |
| 18739775 | Pad Composition And Method | HENSON, KATINA N | — |
| 18597413 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR FAST DISINFECTING WIPES | MERCIER, MELISSA S | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18651043 | CITRIC ACID AND LACTIC ACID DISINFECTING SOLUTION FOR SOFT POROUS SURFACES | WEBB, WALTER E | 1d overdue |
| 17374420 | COMPOSTABLE NONWOVEN WITH LOW EXTENSIBILITY | SALVATORE, LYNDA | 34d |
| 18974388 | ACIDIC CLEANING AND DISINFECTING COMPOSITIONS | BOYER, CHARLES I | — |
| 18922966 | CLEANING WIPES WITH PARTICULAR LOTION RETENTION AND EFFICACY CHARACTERISTICS | KHAN, AMINA S | — |
| 18742203 | NEAR NEUTRAL PH WHITE CLUMPING LITTER | PETERSON, ALANNA KAY | — |
| 18739775 | Pad Composition And Method | HENSON, KATINA N | — |
| 18466311 | DISPENSING SYSTEM FOR A FOAMING CLEANING FORMULATION | DELCOTTO, GREGORY R | — |
| 18074624 | STABLE HYPOHALITE CONCENTRATE AND DILUTION SYSTEM | HARRIS, BRITTANY SHARON | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1761 | 2 |
| 3642 | 1 |
| 1612 | 1 |
| 1625 | 1 |
| 1789 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18974388 | ACIDIC CLEANING AND DISINFECTING COMPOSITIONS | BOYER, CHARLES I | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 09, 2024 |
| 18922966 | CLEANING WIPES WITH PARTICULAR LOTION RETENTION AND EFFICACY CHARACTERISTICS | KHAN, AMINA S | — | §103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 22, 2024 |
| 18798109 | BLEACH COMPOSITIONS | MERCIER, MELISSA S | — | §103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 08, 2024 |
| 18742203 | NEAR NEUTRAL PH WHITE CLUMPING LITTER | PETERSON, ALANNA KAY | 3642 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 13, 2024 |
| 18739775 | Pad Composition And Method | HENSON, KATINA N | — | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 11, 2024 |
| 18651043 | CITRIC ACID AND LACTIC ACID DISINFECTING SOLUTION FOR SOFT POROUS SURFACES | WEBB, WALTER E | 1612 | §103 | Final Rejection | 1d overdue | Pending | Apr 30, 2024 |
| 18597413 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR FAST DISINFECTING WIPES | MERCIER, MELISSA S | 1625 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 06, 2024 |
| 18466311 | DISPENSING SYSTEM FOR A FOAMING CLEANING FORMULATION | DELCOTTO, GREGORY R | 1761 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 13, 2023 |
| 18074624 | STABLE HYPOHALITE CONCENTRATE AND DILUTION SYSTEM | HARRIS, BRITTANY SHARON | 1761 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 05, 2022 |
| 17374420 | COMPOSTABLE NONWOVEN WITH LOW EXTENSIBILITY | SALVATORE, LYNDA | 1789 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 34d | Pending | Jul 13, 2021 |
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