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 • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Air Protein, Inc. has 1 pending office action within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This action is being handled by examiner SHELLHAMMER, JAMES PAUL, who is the 1 distinct examiner currently assigned to the company's pending matters. The prosecution is confined to 1 distinct art unit, which suggests a specialized technical focus for the company's current filings. Having only 1 distinct examiner involved means that the immediate success of the portfolio depends on the specific evaluation of this official.
The 1 pending office action represents the entire current workload for SHELLHAMMER, JAMES PAUL regarding this portfolio. Since there is only 1 distinct art unit and 1 distinct examiner, there is no spread of risk across different departments at the patent office. Practitioners should prioritize understanding the examination style of SHELLHAMMER, JAMES PAUL to address the 1 pending action. This profile reflects a highly concentrated prosecution effort within a single technical domain.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SHELLHAMMER, JAMES PAUL | 1 | 10.0% | +18.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18520471 | STRUCTURED FOOD PRODUCTS AND METHODS OF PRODUCTION THEREOF | SHELLHAMMER, JAMES PAUL | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18520471 | STRUCTURED FOOD PRODUCTS AND METHODS OF PRODUCTION THEREOF | SHELLHAMMER, JAMES PAUL | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1793 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18520471 | STRUCTURED FOOD PRODUCTS AND METHODS OF PRODUCTION THEREOF | SHELLHAMMER, JAMES PAUL | 1793 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 27, 2023 |
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