Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Thos Bentley & Son Limited currently manages 1 pending office action in the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. This matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and is situated in 1 distinct art unit. The company's current engagement with the patent office is highly focused, with only 1 active case requiring attention. This singular focus means that the company can dedicate its full resources to the successful resolution of this 1 pending office action.
HOLLOMAN, NANNETTE is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, responsible for the 1 pending office action. Since there is only 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, the prosecution landscape is straightforward. The company's immediate success in the biotechnology sector depends on the resolution of this 1 pending office action under the review of HOLLOMAN, NANNETTE. Practitioners should focus on addressing the specific technical requirements of the 1 art unit to advance the company's intellectual property goals.
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 (100%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HOLLOMAN, NANNETTE | 1 | 60.7% | +23.1% |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18698506 | HAIR CONDITIONER COMPOSITIONS | HOLLOMAN, NANNETTE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1612 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18698506 | HAIR CONDITIONER COMPOSITIONS | HOLLOMAN, NANNETTE | 1612 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 04, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialThos Bentley & Son Limited has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Nannette Holloman has the most, with 1 of Thos Bentley & Son Limited's pending office actions.
Mostly Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals (USPTO Tech Center 1600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.