Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
5 pending office actions • 3 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Amano Enzyme Europe Ltd. is currently managing 5 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are assigned to 4 distinct examiners, which indicates some examiner overlap within the portfolio. The prosecution is spread across 3 distinct art units, suggesting that the company's enzyme-related technology is being reviewed by several different specialized groups. This requires the applicant to be familiar with the specific standards of those 3 distinct art units.
The busiest examiner for this company is JACOBSON, MICHELE LYNN, who is responsible for 2 pending actions. This means that this examiner is handling a portion of the 5 pending office actions, while the remaining cases are distributed among the other 4 distinct examiners. Managing 5 pending office actions with 4 distinct examiners allows for some efficiency in communication compared to a more dispersed portfolio. With 2 pending actions assigned to JACOBSON, MICHELE LYNN, this examiner has a larger influence on the portfolio than the others. The applicant should prioritize consistency in responses across the 3 distinct art units.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 4 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. 4 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 |
|---|---|
| §102 only | 1 (20%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (20%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (60%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| JACOBSON, MICHELE LYNN | 2 | 28.1% | +33.9% |
| LIU, DEBORAH YANG-HAO | 1 | 8.9% | +12.3% |
| BEKKER, KELLY JO | 1 | 16.8% | +35.1% |
| YOO, HONG THI | 1 | 46.0% | +25.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18252518 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING PROCESSED PLANT-BASED PROTEIN-CONTAINING LIQUID COMPOSITION | BEKKER, KELLY JO | 126d overdue |
| 18259265 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING RICE PROTEIN-CONTAINING LIQUID COMPOSITION | JACOBSON, MICHELE LYNN | 46d overdue |
| 18042515 | PLANT MILK TREATED WITH PROTEIN DEAMIDASE | JACOBSON, MICHELE LYNN | 46d overdue |
| 18932560 | PREVENTION OF AGGREGATION IN NUT MILK | LIU, DEBORAH YANG-HAO | — |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18252518 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING PROCESSED PLANT-BASED PROTEIN-CONTAINING LIQUID COMPOSITION | BEKKER, KELLY JO | 126d overdue |
| 18259265 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING RICE PROTEIN-CONTAINING LIQUID COMPOSITION | JACOBSON, MICHELE LYNN | 46d overdue |
| 18042515 | PLANT MILK TREATED WITH PROTEIN DEAMIDASE | JACOBSON, MICHELE LYNN | 46d overdue |
| 18001136 | IMPROVING TEXTURE OF PROTEIN | YOO, HONG THI | 19d |
| 18932560 | PREVENTION OF AGGREGATION IN NUT MILK | LIU, DEBORAH YANG-HAO | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1793 | 2 |
| 1792 | 2 |
| 1791 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18932560 | PREVENTION OF AGGREGATION IN NUT MILK | LIU, DEBORAH YANG-HAO | 1791 | §103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 30, 2024 |
| 18259265 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING RICE PROTEIN-CONTAINING LIQUID COMPOSITION | JACOBSON, MICHELE LYNN | 1793 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 46d overdue | Pending | Jun 30, 2023 |
| 18252518 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING PROCESSED PLANT-BASED PROTEIN-CONTAINING LIQUID COMPOSITION | BEKKER, KELLY JO | 1792 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 126d overdue | Pending | May 10, 2023 |
| 18042515 | PLANT MILK TREATED WITH PROTEIN DEAMIDASE | JACOBSON, MICHELE LYNN | 1793 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 46d overdue | Pending | Feb 22, 2023 |
| 18001136 | IMPROVING TEXTURE OF PROTEIN | YOO, HONG THI | 1792 | §102 | Final Rejection | 19d | Pending | Dec 08, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialAmano Enzyme Europe Ltd. has 5 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 4 examiners.
Michele Lynn Jacobson has the most, with 2 of Amano Enzyme Europe Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
