Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Chemistry & Materials
5 pending office actions • 4 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
VERSALIS S.P.A. has 5 pending office actions in Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals. The matters involve 5 distinct examiners across 4 distinct art units, showing examiner-level dispersion with some concentration at the art-unit level.
MCAVOY, ELLEN M is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. The pending workload is spread across the listed examiners, making centralized docket control and examiner-specific response preparation important. The art-unit distribution can help organize recurring technical issues where assignments overlap.
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 (20%) |
| §112 only | 1 (20%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 2 (40%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (20%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MCAVOY, ELLEN M | 1 | 72.9% | +8.9% |
| WILLIAMS, EMMALEE RAE | 1 | 0.0% | +0.0% |
| BROOKS, KREGG T | 1 | 57.1% | +1.5% |
| MCANANY, JOHN D | 1 | 65.1% | +46.4% |
| HAVLIN, ROBERT H | 1 | 51.3% | +28.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18718340 | PROCESS FOR HYDRATING YEASTS IN DEHYDRATED FORM | WILLIAMS, EMMALEE RAE | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18549412 | METHOD FOR PREPARING AMIDINES | MCANANY, JOHN D | 5d overdue |
| 18549406 | METHOD FOR PREPARATION OF AMIDINES | HAVLIN, ROBERT H | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1771 | 1 |
| 1653 | 1 |
| 1625 | 1 |
| 1626 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18725831 | METHOD FOR MONITORING A CONTROL PARAMETER ON A SUBSTANTIALLY PLASTIC MATERIAL, RELATING TO APPARATUS AND PYROLYSIS PROCESS WHICH USES THIS METHOD | MCAVOY, ELLEN M | 1771 | §112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 01, 2024 |
| 18718340 | PROCESS FOR HYDRATING YEASTS IN DEHYDRATED FORM | WILLIAMS, EMMALEE RAE | 1653 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 10, 2024 |
| 18575083 | PROCESS FOR THE PREPARATION OF VINYLAROMATIC POLYMERS | BROOKS, KREGG T | — | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 28, 2023 |
| 18549412 | METHOD FOR PREPARING AMIDINES | MCANANY, JOHN D | 1625 | §103DP | Final Rejection | 5d overdue | Pending | Sep 07, 2023 |
| 18549406 | METHOD FOR PREPARATION OF AMIDINES | HAVLIN, ROBERT H | 1626 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 07, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialVERSALIS S.P.A. has 5 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 4 art units and 5 examiners.
Ellen M Mcavoy has the most, with 1 of VERSALIS S.P.A.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals (USPTO Tech Center 1600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
