Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Ace Ethanol LLC currently manages 1 pending office action within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, PRAKASH, SUBBALAKSHMI, and is being reviewed within 1 distinct art unit. This concentrated prosecution profile indicates that the company's current patent office activity is focused on a single technical matter and a single point of contact. Such a structure is common for companies with a very specific technological focus.
The busiest examiner, PRAKASH, SUBBALAKSHMI, is responsible for 1 pending office action. As there is only 1 pending office action in total, this examiner is the sole official currently evaluating the company's pending intellectual property. The involvement of only 1 distinct art unit confirms that the prosecution is not spread across different technical departments. Consequently, the company's immediate prosecution success depends entirely on the interactions within this single art unit and with this specific examiner.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PRAKASH, SUBBALAKSHMI | 1 | 45.6% | +36.2% |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18889644 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROCESSING SOYBEANS | PRAKASH, SUBBALAKSHMI | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1793 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18889644 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROCESSING SOYBEANS | PRAKASH, SUBBALAKSHMI | 1793 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 19, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialAce Ethanol LLC has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Subbalakshmi Prakash has the most, with 1 of Ace Ethanol LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.