Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
4 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Almendra Pte. Ltd. is navigating 4 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These matters are spread across 2 distinct art units, showing a consistent presence in specific technical classifications. The company interacts with 2 distinct examiners during this phase of prosecution, which suggests a concentrated pool of feedback from the patent office. This concentration requires a strategic approach to maintain consistency in arguments across the 4 pending office actions.
KERSHAW, KELLY P is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, holding a portion of the workload. This concentration means that a significant portion of the company's current office actions are under the review of a particular individual. Practitioners should note this examiner's influence on the portfolio's overall progress. Managing the distinct art units while dealing with the assigned examiners indicates that the officials may have overlapping technical expertise relevant to the Chemistry & Materials field. This approach ensures that the specific nuances of the technical field are addressed consistently.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 | 4 (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 | 2 | 17.7% | +16.0% |
| LI, CHANGQING | 2 | 29.3% | +33.6% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18377913 | METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR IMPROVED TASTE QUALITY | KERSHAW, KELLY P | 147d overdue |
| 18285356 | METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR IMPROVED TASTE QUALITY | LI, CHANGQING | 4d overdue |
| 18640711 | METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR IMPROVED TASTE QUALITY | LI, CHANGQING | 70d |
| 18676083 | METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR IMPROVED TASTE QUALITY | 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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18377913 | METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR IMPROVED TASTE QUALITY | KERSHAW, KELLY P | 147d overdue |
| 18285356 | METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR IMPROVED TASTE QUALITY | LI, CHANGQING | 4d overdue |
| 18640711 | METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR IMPROVED TASTE QUALITY | LI, CHANGQING | 70d |
| 18676083 | METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR IMPROVED TASTE QUALITY | KERSHAW, KELLY P | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1791 | 3 |
| 1792 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18676083 | METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR IMPROVED TASTE QUALITY | KERSHAW, KELLY P | 1792 | §103§112DPOther | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 28, 2024 |
| 18640711 | METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR IMPROVED TASTE QUALITY | LI, CHANGQING | 1791 | §102§112DPOther | Non-Final OA | 70d | Pending | Apr 19, 2024 |
| 18377913 | METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR IMPROVED TASTE QUALITY | KERSHAW, KELLY P | 1791 | §102§103DP | Final Rejection | 147d overdue | Pending | Oct 09, 2023 |
| 18285356 | METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR IMPROVED TASTE QUALITY | LI, CHANGQING | 1791 | §103§112DP | Final Rejection | 4d overdue | Pending | Oct 02, 2023 |
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