Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Chemistry & Materials
4 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Union Carbide Corporation maintains an active presence in the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area with 4 pending office actions. This workload is distributed across 3 distinct examiners, suggesting a level of variety in the individual perspectives reviewing the company's applications. The prosecution is also spread across 3 distinct art units, which may require the applicant to navigate different procedural nuances or examination standards within the patent office.
The data identifies BERRIOS, JENNIFER A as the busiest examiner for this portfolio, currently handling 2 busiest examiner pending actions. This means that these specific matters are concentrated with a single individual, while the remaining actions are split among the other distinct examiners. This concentration with BERRIOS, JENNIFER A represents a significant portion of the company's current active prosecution volume.
For patent practitioners, the distribution of the 4 pending office actions across the 3 distinct art units indicates that the portfolio is not isolated to a single niche. However, with the 2 busiest examiner pending actions assigned to BERRIOS, JENNIFER A, the outcome of those specific matters will have a significant impact on the overall success rate of the current Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals filings. Managing the relationship with the distinct examiners is the primary task for the current prosecution cycle.
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 (25%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 2 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (25%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BERRIOS, JENNIFER A | 2 | 37.0% | +49.8% |
| ZHANG SPIERING, DONGXIU | 1 | 45.2% | +70.9% |
| OGDEN JR, NECHOLUS | 1 | 69.8% | +23.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18546310 | SHAMPOO FORMULATION WITH ENHANCED SILICONE DEPOSITION | ZHANG SPIERING, DONGXIU | — |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18261695 | FABRIC CARE COMPOSITION | OGDEN JR, NECHOLUS | 5d overdue |
| 18546310 | SHAMPOO FORMULATION WITH ENHANCED SILICONE DEPOSITION | ZHANG SPIERING, DONGXIU | — |
| 18264080 | HAIR CONDITIONER FORMULATION | BERRIOS, JENNIFER A | — |
| 18263980 | FORMULATION FOR THE CARE OF DAMAGED HAIR | BERRIOS, JENNIFER A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1613 | 2 |
| 1616 | 1 |
| 1761 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18546310 | SHAMPOO FORMULATION WITH ENHANCED SILICONE DEPOSITION | ZHANG SPIERING, DONGXIU | 1616 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 14, 2023 |
| 18264080 | HAIR CONDITIONER FORMULATION | BERRIOS, JENNIFER A | 1613 | §103DP | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 03, 2023 |
| 18263980 | FORMULATION FOR THE CARE OF DAMAGED HAIR | BERRIOS, JENNIFER A | 1613 | §103DP | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 02, 2023 |
| 18261695 | FABRIC CARE COMPOSITION | OGDEN JR, NECHOLUS | 1761 | §103 | Final Rejection | 5d overdue | Pending | Jul 17, 2023 |
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