Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
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 currently manages 2 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are distributed across 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units, indicating a one-to-one ratio between actions and examiners. The busiest examiner for the portfolio is BEKKER, KELLY JO, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. This spread across 2 distinct art units suggests the portfolio covers different chemical or material classifications. Because 2 distinct examiners are involved, the company must navigate different examiner styles simultaneously.
The workload is split, as the busiest examiner handles 1 of the 2 total pending office actions. For practitioners, this means that strategies successful with BEKKER, KELLY JO may not necessarily apply to the other examiner involved in the portfolio. Having 2 distinct art units involved implies that the underlying technology spans multiple specialized categories within the Chemistry & Materials sector. This diversification requires the applicant to monitor trends across multiple examination groups. With 2 pending office actions, the need for tailored responses to 2 distinct examiners is a primary consideration for the legal team.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GWARTNEY, ELIZABETH A | 1 | 36.0% | +34.8% |
| BEKKER, KELLY JO | 1 | 16.7% | +35.4% |
| MCCLAIN, TYNESHA L. | 1 | 15.8% | +24.2% |
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 |
|---|---|
| 1759 | 1 |
| 1792 | 1 |
| 1793 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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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