Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
BIOME BIOPLASTICS LIMITED manages 1 pending office action within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. The portfolio's current prosecution is handled by 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. This indicates a very focused and narrow engagement with the patent office at this stage. The concentration in 1 distinct art unit suggests that the company's current innovation is being evaluated within a specific chemical or material science framework.
GILLETT, JENNIFER ANN is the busiest examiner, currently overseeing 1 pending office action. This single action constitutes the entirety of the company's pending workload in this data set. With only 1 distinct examiner involved, the company's immediate path to patent allowance is subject to the review of a single official. The presence of only 1 pending office action suggests that the company may have a very selective filing strategy. Practitioners should note that the results of this 1 pending office action will define the company's current success rate in the Chemistry & Materials sector. The lack of examiner diversity simplifies the management of the portfolio but increases the impact of a single examiner's decision.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GILLETT, JENNIFER ANN | 1 | 29.6% | +37.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18200527 | FABRIC | GILLETT, JENNIFER ANN | 12d |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18200527 | FABRIC | GILLETT, JENNIFER ANN | 12d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1789 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18200527 | FABRIC | GILLETT, JENNIFER ANN | 1789 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 12d | Pending | May 22, 2023 |
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