Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
4 pending office actions • 2 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
BARILLA G. E R. FRATELLI S.P.A. has 3 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are assigned to 3 distinct examiners. The prosecution activity is divided between 2 distinct art units, indicating a slight technical divergence in the company's current filings. This spread across 2 distinct art units and 3 distinct examiners suggests that the company's active applications are being evaluated from multiple technical perspectives within the Chemistry & Materials field, which may require a more varied prosecution strategy.
The busiest examiner is DEMEREE, CHRISTOPHER R, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. With 3 total pending office actions and 3 distinct examiners, the workload is perfectly distributed with no examiner overlap. Practitioners must manage interactions across 2 distinct art units to address the 3 pending matters. The fact that the busiest examiner pending count is only 1 highlights the need for independent prosecution strategies for each of the company's active cases, as no single examiner oversees more than one action, and the technical review is split across different administrative groups.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 2 (50%) |
| §102 only | 1 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (25%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DEMEREE, CHRISTOPHER R | 1 | 68.9% | +14.1% |
| MCNEIL, JENNIFER C | 1 | 23.9% | +19.1% |
| HAWKINS, AMANDA SALATA | 1 | 12.0% | +45.2% |
| TURNER, FELICIA C | 1 | 26.3% | +30.1% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17758472 | EMULSIFIED FOOD FORMULATION | HAWKINS, AMANDA SALATA | 132d overdue |
| 18563499 | PROCESS FOR THE PRODUCTION OF PASTA BY MEANS OF EXTRUSION THROUGH A BRONZE DIE PLATE INSERT WITH GROOVES | MCNEIL, JENNIFER C | 11d overdue |
| 17769239 | PROCESS FOR THE PRODUCTION OF A PASTA FOOD PRODUCT BY EXTRUSION THROUGH AN INSERT MADE OF POLYACETAL RESIN AND RELATED PRODUCT | TURNER, FELICIA C | 30d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17758472 | EMULSIFIED FOOD FORMULATION | HAWKINS, AMANDA SALATA | 132d overdue |
| 18563499 | PROCESS FOR THE PRODUCTION OF PASTA BY MEANS OF EXTRUSION THROUGH A BRONZE DIE PLATE INSERT WITH GROOVES | MCNEIL, JENNIFER C | 11d overdue |
| 17769239 | PROCESS FOR THE PRODUCTION OF A PASTA FOOD PRODUCT BY EXTRUSION THROUGH AN INSERT MADE OF POLYACETAL RESIN AND RELATED PRODUCT | TURNER, FELICIA C | 30d |
| 18736059 | FLEXIBLE PAPER-POLYMER MULTILAYER PACKAGE, PREFERABLY FOR DRIED FOOD PRODUCTS | DEMEREE, CHRISTOPHER R | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1793 | 3 |
| 3734 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18736059 | FLEXIBLE PAPER-POLYMER MULTILAYER PACKAGE, PREFERABLY FOR DRIED FOOD PRODUCTS | DEMEREE, CHRISTOPHER R | 3734 | §102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 06, 2024 |
| 18563499 | PROCESS FOR THE PRODUCTION OF PASTA BY MEANS OF EXTRUSION THROUGH A BRONZE DIE PLATE INSERT WITH GROOVES | MCNEIL, JENNIFER C | 1793 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 11d overdue | Pending | Nov 22, 2023 |
| 17758472 | EMULSIFIED FOOD FORMULATION | HAWKINS, AMANDA SALATA | 1793 | §103 | Final Rejection | 132d overdue | Pending | Jul 07, 2022 |
| 17769239 | PROCESS FOR THE PRODUCTION OF A PASTA FOOD PRODUCT BY EXTRUSION THROUGH AN INSERT MADE OF POLYACETAL RESIN AND RELATED PRODUCT | TURNER, FELICIA C | 1793 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 30d | Pending | Apr 14, 2022 |
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