Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Amano Enzyme Manufacturing (China) Ltd. manages 2 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This level of activity is concentrated within 1 distinct art unit, suggesting a very specific technical focus for the company patent portfolio. Working within a single art unit allows for a consistent approach to the relevant prior art.
The prosecution involves 2 distinct examiners, which means the 2 pending office actions are being reviewed by different individuals. This distribution requires the legal team to manage separate sets of examiner preferences within the same technical field. Having 2 distinct examiners can provide different perspectives on the portfolio's claims.
PRAKASH, SUBBALAKSHMI is the busiest examiner, currently overseeing 1 pending office action. This examiner handles a portion of the active workload, while the other action is assigned to a different official. Practitioners should coordinate their strategy across the 2 pending office actions to ensure that the 1 pending office action under this examiner progresses in alignment with the rest of the portfolio.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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 (50%) |
| §112 only | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PRAKASH, SUBBALAKSHMI | 1 | 45.7% | +36.1% |
| HAWKINS, AMANDA SALATA | 1 | 12.0% | +45.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18251153 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING PLANT PROTEIN-PROCESSED PRODUCT HAVING IMPROVED FOOD TEXTURE | HAWKINS, AMANDA SALATA | 22d |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18251846 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING PROCESSED PLANT-BASED MILK HAVING INCREASED DISPERSION STABILITY AND/OR SOLUBILITY | PRAKASH, SUBBALAKSHMI | 197d overdue |
| 18251153 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING PLANT PROTEIN-PROCESSED PRODUCT HAVING IMPROVED FOOD TEXTURE | HAWKINS, AMANDA SALATA | 22d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1793 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18251846 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING PROCESSED PLANT-BASED MILK HAVING INCREASED DISPERSION STABILITY AND/OR SOLUBILITY | PRAKASH, SUBBALAKSHMI | 1793 | §112 | Final Rejection | 197d overdue | Pending | May 04, 2023 |
| 18251153 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING PLANT PROTEIN-PROCESSED PRODUCT HAVING IMPROVED FOOD TEXTURE | HAWKINS, AMANDA SALATA | 1793 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 22d | Pending | Apr 28, 2023 |
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