Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
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 managing 5 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are handled by 4 distinct examiners, indicating a small degree of examiner overlap within the portfolio. The portfolio is spread across 3 distinct art units, reflecting a diverse range of chemical and enzymatic technologies. This distribution of 5 pending actions across 4 distinct examiners means that the company must navigate several different individual perspectives during prosecution.
JACOBSON, MICHELE LYNN is the busiest examiner for the company, currently overseeing 2 pending office actions. The remaining 3 pending actions are distributed among other examiners. This concentration of 2 actions under one official provides a minor opportunity for the company to apply a consistent strategy. Meanwhile, the 3 distinct art units ensure that the 5 pending office actions are reviewed by specialists in different chemical sub-fields, requiring 4 distinct examiners to manage the workload. Practitioners should prioritize the requirements of JACOBSON, MICHELE LYNN while also addressing the unique standards of the 3 distinct art units involved in the chemistry and materials sector.
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 | 1 (20%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (80%) |
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 | 28.0% | +32.9% |
| LIU, DEBORAH YANG-HAO | 1 | 8.9% | +12.3% |
| BEKKER, KELLY JO | 1 | 16.7% | +35.4% |
| MERRIAM, ANDREW E | 1 | 26.8% | +32.4% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. 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 |
| 18932560 | PREVENTION OF AGGREGATION IN NUT MILK | LIU, DEBORAH YANG-HAO | — |
| 17433072 | PREVENTION OF AGGREGATION IN PLANT MILK | MERRIAM, ANDREW E | — |
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 |
| 18932560 | PREVENTION OF AGGREGATION IN NUT MILK | LIU, DEBORAH YANG-HAO | — |
| 17433072 | PREVENTION OF AGGREGATION IN PLANT MILK | MERRIAM, ANDREW E | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1793 | 2 |
| 1792 | 1 |
| 1791 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18932560 | PREVENTION OF AGGREGATION IN NUT MILK | LIU, DEBORAH YANG-HAO | — | §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 |
| 17433072 | PREVENTION OF AGGREGATION IN PLANT MILK | MERRIAM, ANDREW E | 1791 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 23, 2021 |
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