Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
7 pending office actions • 1 art units • 6 examiners • 1 of 7 (14%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
AAK AB (publ) is currently managing 6 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are distributed across 6 distinct examiners, which means that every active application is being reviewed by a different individual. This distribution indicates a lack of examiner overlap across the company's current prosecution files.
The portfolio is assigned to 2 distinct art units, suggesting that the company's materials-related innovations are categorized into two primary technical groups. GWARTNEY, ELIZABETH A is the busiest examiner for the company, currently handling 1 pending office action. Since each of the 6 distinct examiners is responsible for exactly 1 pending office action, the company's workload is evenly split among them. The presence of 6 pending office actions across 2 distinct art units requires the company to manage the specific technical requirements of these two groups while interacting with 6 different examiners to advance its applications.
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 (14%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 6 (86%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MORNHINWEG, JEFFREY P | 2 | 36.3% | +32.1% |
| GWARTNEY, ELIZABETH A | 1 | 36.0% | +34.8% |
| TRAN, LIEN THUY | 1 | 28.6% | +26.5% |
| LACHICA, ERICSON M | 1 | 30.0% | +35.4% |
| DIVIESTI, KARLA ISOBEL | 1 | 3.4% | +20.0% |
| KOHLER, STEPHANIE A | 1 | 31.9% | +31.1% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17800746 | FAT COMPOSITION SUITABLE AS A COCOA BUTTER EQUIVALENT | KOHLER, STEPHANIE A | 4d overdue |
| 18880968 | MEAT-ANALOGUE COMPOSITION | GWARTNEY, ELIZABETH A | — |
| 18850670 | A FAT COMPOSITION COMPRISING A VEGETABLE FAT PHASE WHICH IS FREE FROM PALM OIL AND/OR FRACTIONS THEREOF | TRAN, LIEN THUY | — |
| 18843485 | MEAT-ANALOGUE COMPOSITION | LACHICA, ERICSON M | — |
| 18728192 | PLANT-BASED BUTTER | MORNHINWEG, JEFFREY P | — |
| 18727534 | A VEGETABLE FAT COMPOSITION FOR A CONFECTIONARY SPREAD | DIVIESTI, KARLA ISOBEL | — |
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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17800746 | FAT COMPOSITION SUITABLE AS A COCOA BUTTER EQUIVALENT | KOHLER, STEPHANIE A | 4d overdue |
| 18880968 | MEAT-ANALOGUE COMPOSITION | GWARTNEY, ELIZABETH A | — |
| 18850670 | A FAT COMPOSITION COMPRISING A VEGETABLE FAT PHASE WHICH IS FREE FROM PALM OIL AND/OR FRACTIONS THEREOF | TRAN, LIEN THUY | — |
| 18850160 | A FAT COMPOSITION COMPRISING A VEGETABLE FAT PHASE WHICH IS FREE FROM PALM OIL AND/OR FRACTIONS THEREOF | MORNHINWEG, JEFFREY P | — |
| 18843485 | MEAT-ANALOGUE COMPOSITION | LACHICA, ERICSON M | — |
| 18728192 | PLANT-BASED BUTTER | MORNHINWEG, JEFFREY P | — |
| 18727534 | A VEGETABLE FAT COMPOSITION FOR A CONFECTIONARY SPREAD | DIVIESTI, KARLA ISOBEL | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1791 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18880968 | MEAT-ANALOGUE COMPOSITION | GWARTNEY, ELIZABETH A | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 03, 2025 |
| 18850670 | A FAT COMPOSITION COMPRISING A VEGETABLE FAT PHASE WHICH IS FREE FROM PALM OIL AND/OR FRACTIONS THEREOF | TRAN, LIEN THUY | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 25, 2024 |
| 18850160 | A FAT COMPOSITION COMPRISING A VEGETABLE FAT PHASE WHICH IS FREE FROM PALM OIL AND/OR FRACTIONS THEREOF | MORNHINWEG, JEFFREY P | — | §103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 24, 2024 |
| 18843485 | MEAT-ANALOGUE COMPOSITION | LACHICA, ERICSON M | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 03, 2024 |
| 18728192 | PLANT-BASED BUTTER | MORNHINWEG, JEFFREY P | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 11, 2024 |
| 18727534 | A VEGETABLE FAT COMPOSITION FOR A CONFECTIONARY SPREAD | DIVIESTI, KARLA ISOBEL | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 09, 2024 |
| 17800746 | FAT COMPOSITION SUITABLE AS A COCOA BUTTER EQUIVALENT | KOHLER, STEPHANIE A | 1791 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 4d overdue | AI Ready | Aug 18, 2022 |
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