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
Algaecore Technologies Ltd. has 1 pending office action in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This single action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, Kelly P Kershaw, who is currently the busiest examiner for the company. The prosecution activity is contained within 1 distinct art unit, reflecting a very specific technical focus for the current filing.
With only 1 pending office action, the company's active engagement with the patent office is highly concentrated. The 1 distinct examiner, Kelly P Kershaw, holds 1 pending action, meaning this individual is the sole arbiter of the company's current patent claims. This lack of examiner diversity means that the portfolio's immediate success depends on the specific interactions within this 1 art unit.
Practitioners should note that the pending workload provides a limited data set for predicting future prosecution trends for this company. Because there is only 1 distinct examiner involved, there is no baseline for comparing how different examiners might interpret the company's chemistry-related disclosures. All current prosecution strategy must be tailored to the busiest examiner pending count of 1 and the specific requirements of the assigned official.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KERSHAW, KELLY P | 1 | 17.7% | +16.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18840016 | DECOLORIZED SPIRULINA AND METHODS FOR PRODUCING THE SAME | KERSHAW, KELLY P | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18840016 | DECOLORIZED SPIRULINA AND METHODS FOR PRODUCING THE SAME | KERSHAW, KELLY P | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1791 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18840016 | DECOLORIZED SPIRULINA AND METHODS FOR PRODUCING THE SAME | KERSHAW, KELLY P | 1791 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 20, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialAlgaecore Technologies Ltd. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Kelly P Kershaw has the most, with 1 of Algaecore Technologies Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
