Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Chemistry & Materials
6 pending office actions • 4 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
Wella Germany GmbH maintains a portfolio with 5 pending office actions, all located within the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. These actions are distributed among 5 distinct examiners, showing that each pending matter is being reviewed by a different individual. This distribution suggests a lack of examiner concentration for the current filings, requiring the company to manage 5 separate examiner relationships within the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals sector.
The workload spans 3 distinct art units, which is fewer than the 5 distinct examiners, indicating some overlap in administrative groupings. PALLAY, MICHAEL B is identified as the busiest examiner, though he only holds 1 pending office action. This confirms that the 5 pending actions are evenly spread across the examiner pool. For the practitioner, the use of 3 art units for 5 actions suggests that while the reviewers differ, the administrative oversight is concentrated in a smaller number of specialized groups. This structure requires a coordinated strategy to address the diverse requirements of 5 different examiners while navigating 3 distinct art units.
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 |
|---|---|
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (17%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 5 (83%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PALLAY, MICHAEL B | 1 | 55.8% | +34.0% |
| BAZARGANI, ARYA AHMADI | 1 | 62.5% | +31.3% |
| ZHANG SPIERING, DONGXIU | 1 | 45.2% | +70.9% |
| NGUYEN, PETER | 1 | — | — |
| ATKINSON, JOSHUA ALEXANDER | 1 | 52.4% | +26.7% |
| KHAN, AMINA S | 1 | 47.5% | +43.0% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18044138 | PERMANENT HAIR SHAPING COMPOSITION | ATKINSON, JOSHUA ALEXANDER | 14d |
| 18837463 | VAT PLUS OXIDATIVE COLORS | PALLAY, MICHAEL B | — |
| 18703282 | WATER REDUCED COMPACT SHAMPOO COMPOSITION | BAZARGANI, ARYA AHMADI | — |
| 18454579 | SULFATE-FREE SHAMPOO | ZHANG SPIERING, DONGXIU | — |
| 18453944 | SELECTION OF A CHEMICAL COMPOUND APPLICABLE ON A CLASS OF HUMAN HAIRS | NGUYEN, PETER | — |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18044138 | PERMANENT HAIR SHAPING COMPOSITION | ATKINSON, JOSHUA ALEXANDER | 14d |
| 18837463 | VAT PLUS OXIDATIVE COLORS | PALLAY, MICHAEL B | — |
| 18703282 | WATER REDUCED COMPACT SHAMPOO COMPOSITION | BAZARGANI, ARYA AHMADI | — |
| 18454579 | SULFATE-FREE SHAMPOO | ZHANG SPIERING, DONGXIU | — |
| 18003148 | METHODS FOR PREPARATION OF KERATIN FIBER COLOR COATINGS WITH A SILICONE AZA MICHAEL COMPOSITION | KHAN, AMINA S | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1613 | 1 |
| 1616 | 1 |
| 1612 | 1 |
| 1761 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18837463 | VAT PLUS OXIDATIVE COLORS | PALLAY, MICHAEL B | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 09, 2024 |
| 18703282 | WATER REDUCED COMPACT SHAMPOO COMPOSITION | BAZARGANI, ARYA AHMADI | 1613 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 19, 2024 |
| 18454579 | SULFATE-FREE SHAMPOO | ZHANG SPIERING, DONGXIU | 1616 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 23, 2023 |
| 18453944 | SELECTION OF A CHEMICAL COMPOUND APPLICABLE ON A CLASS OF HUMAN HAIRS | NGUYEN, PETER | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 22, 2023 |
| 18044138 | PERMANENT HAIR SHAPING COMPOSITION | ATKINSON, JOSHUA ALEXANDER | 1612 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 14d | Pending | Mar 06, 2023 |
| 18003148 | METHODS FOR PREPARATION OF KERATIN FIBER COLOR COATINGS WITH A SILICONE AZA MICHAEL COMPOSITION | KHAN, AMINA S | 1761 | §112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 22, 2022 |
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