Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Anheuser-Busch InBev S.A. has 2 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are being reviewed by 2 distinct examiners, ensuring that each case receives an independent evaluation. This structure suggests that the company's current patent interests in chemistry are being examined from multiple angles.
The prosecution activity is located in 2 distinct art units. GOUGH, TIFFANY MAUREEN is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently overseeing 1 pending office action. Since the busiest examiner pending count is 1, the 2 pending office actions are split evenly between the two examiners. This means that no single examiner's backlog is the sole factor in the portfolio's timeline.
Practitioners should recognize that the 2 pending office actions are being handled in 2 distinct art units, which may have different priorities or prior art focuses. Success will require a tailored approach for each of the 2 distinct examiners. Because the workload is distributed, the practitioner must manage two separate prosecution tracks that do not share a common examiner or art unit.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GOUGH, TIFFANY MAUREEN | 1 | 31.6% | +46.8% |
| SHUTTY, DAVID G | 1 | 69.0% | +12.7% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18721140 | METHODS OF PREVENTING INHIBITION OF FLAVOUR PRODUCTION IN YEAST | GOUGH, TIFFANY MAUREEN | — |
| 18250713 | A SYSTEM AND A METHOD FOR ASSEMBLING A PACKAGING | SHUTTY, DAVID G | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18721140 | METHODS OF PREVENTING INHIBITION OF FLAVOUR PRODUCTION IN YEAST | GOUGH, TIFFANY MAUREEN | — |
| 18250713 | A SYSTEM AND A METHOD FOR ASSEMBLING A PACKAGING | SHUTTY, DAVID G | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1791 | 1 |
| 3731 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18721140 | METHODS OF PREVENTING INHIBITION OF FLAVOUR PRODUCTION IN YEAST | GOUGH, TIFFANY MAUREEN | 1791 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 17, 2024 |
| 18250713 | A SYSTEM AND A METHOD FOR ASSEMBLING A PACKAGING | SHUTTY, DAVID G | 3731 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 26, 2023 |
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