Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
AAK AB (publ) manages a company patent portfolio in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. The portfolio currently has 2 pending office actions. These 2 pending office actions involve 2 distinct examiners but are both located within 1 distinct art unit. This indicates that while different individuals are reviewing the cases, they are doing so within the same specialized department at the USPTO.
CHAWLA, JYOTI is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, handling 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Since there are 2 pending office actions and 2 distinct examiners, each examiner is managing exactly one case. The fact that both cases are in 1 distinct art unit suggests a high degree of technological similarity between the 2 pending office actions, as they fall under the same departmental classification.
The prosecution strategy for these 2 pending office actions is centralized within a single art unit. However, the use of 2 distinct examiners means the company must still navigate two different individual perspectives. The busiest examiner's 1 pending action represents half of the current active portfolio. Practitioners should focus on the standards of the 1 distinct art unit while addressing the preferences of both examiners.
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 | 2 (100%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHAWLA, JYOTI | 1 | 52.7% | +30.3% |
| DUBOIS, PHILIP A | 1 | 25.5% | +26.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18259475 | CHEESE-ANALOGUE COMPOSITION | DUBOIS, PHILIP A | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18684971 | MEAT-ANALOGUE COMPOSITION | CHAWLA, JYOTI | — |
| 18259475 | CHEESE-ANALOGUE COMPOSITION | DUBOIS, PHILIP A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1791 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18684971 | MEAT-ANALOGUE COMPOSITION | CHAWLA, JYOTI | 1791 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 20, 2024 |
| 18259475 | CHEESE-ANALOGUE COMPOSITION | DUBOIS, PHILIP A | 1791 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 27, 2023 |
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