Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

VISCOFAN, S.A.

3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready

Portfolio Summary

3
Total Pending OAs
3
Non-Final OAs
0
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

0
Overdue
2
Due this week
0
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
1
Due later

Deadline Fire Line

Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Due ≤ 7 days (2)Due later (1)

Case Difficulty Mix

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.

0
Hard (0%)
3
Medium (100%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only2 (67%)
§102 only1 (33%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

3
Life Sciences
100% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
0
Mechanical / Eng
0% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

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.

30 h
Manual time on pending OAs
6 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
10 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.3 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
SILVERMAN, JANICE Y 1 36.2% +52.8%
MCDONOUGH, JAMES E 1 71.4% +11.1%
SHELLHAMMER, JAMES PAUL 1 0.0% +0.0%

Hard Cases (1)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18246736 DRY COLLAGEN POWDER WITH SATIATING PROPERTIES AND METHOD FOR ITS PREPARATION SHELLHAMMER, JAMES PAUL 6d

Interview Candidates (2)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18247736 COLLAGEN INK FOR 3D PRINTING MCDONOUGH, JAMES E 7d
18292589 REVERSIBLE EDIBLE FILM, USES AND METHOD OF PRODUCTION SILVERMAN, JANICE Y 76d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1792 1
1734 1
1793 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18292589 REVERSIBLE EDIBLE FILM, USES AND METHOD OF PRODUCTION SILVERMAN, JANICE Y 1792 §103 Non-Final OA 76d Pending Jan 26, 2024
18247736 COLLAGEN INK FOR 3D PRINTING MCDONOUGH, JAMES E 1734 §103 Non-Final OA 7d Pending Apr 03, 2023
18246736 DRY COLLAGEN POWDER WITH SATIATING PROPERTIES AND METHOD FOR ITS PREPARATION SHELLHAMMER, JAMES PAUL 1793 §102 Non-Final OA 6d Pending Mar 27, 2023

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