Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
BK Giulini GmbH holds a company patent portfolio in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. Currently, the portfolio has 3 pending office actions, which are distributed across 3 distinct art units. This indicates that the company's chemical technologies are being evaluated across a variety of technical classifications. The 3 pending office actions are assigned to 3 distinct examiners, meaning the company is engaging with three different perspectives at the patent office.
BEKKER, KELLY JO is the busiest examiner for the company, managing 1 busiest examiner pending action. This shows that the 3 pending office actions are split evenly among the 3 distinct examiners. Because each action is in a different art unit, the company must navigate the unique standards of 3 distinct art units. This level of activity suggests a diversified approach to securing patent rights within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. Practitioners should note that the 3 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units provide a broad range of examiner feedback. The 3 pending office actions represent the current active engagement for the company's Chemistry & Materials portfolio.
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 | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (67%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BEKKER, KELLY JO | 1 | 16.8% | +35.1% |
| GWARTNEY, ELIZABETH A | 1 | 36.0% | +34.9% |
| MCCLAIN, TYNESHA L. | 1 | 15.7% | +24.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18267171 | PROCESSED DAIRY-TYPE FOOD PRODUCTS | MCCLAIN, TYNESHA L. | 42d overdue |
| 18274907 | A PROCESS FOR PREPARING A VEGAN EDIBLE PRODUCT FROM EDIBLE NON-ANIMAL PROTEINS | BEKKER, KELLY JO | 84d |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18267171 | PROCESSED DAIRY-TYPE FOOD PRODUCTS | MCCLAIN, TYNESHA L. | 42d overdue |
| 18274863 | A PROCESS FOR PREPARING A VEGAN EDIBLE PRODUCT FROM EDIBLE NON-ANIMAL PROTEINS | GWARTNEY, ELIZABETH A | 35d overdue |
| 18274907 | A PROCESS FOR PREPARING A VEGAN EDIBLE PRODUCT FROM EDIBLE NON-ANIMAL PROTEINS | BEKKER, KELLY JO | 84d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1792 | 1 |
| 1759 | 1 |
| 1793 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18274907 | A PROCESS FOR PREPARING A VEGAN EDIBLE PRODUCT FROM EDIBLE NON-ANIMAL PROTEINS | BEKKER, KELLY JO | 1792 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 84d | Pending | Jul 28, 2023 |
| 18274863 | A PROCESS FOR PREPARING A VEGAN EDIBLE PRODUCT FROM EDIBLE NON-ANIMAL PROTEINS | GWARTNEY, ELIZABETH A | 1759 | §103 | Final Rejection | 35d overdue | Pending | Jul 28, 2023 |
| 18267171 | PROCESSED DAIRY-TYPE FOOD PRODUCTS | MCCLAIN, TYNESHA L. | 1793 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 42d overdue | Pending | Jun 14, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialBK Giulini GmbH has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 3 examiners.
Kelly Jo Bekker has the most, with 1 of BK Giulini GmbH's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
