Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
4 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
BRAIN CORP SA is managing 4 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are assigned to 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. This distribution indicates that the workload is shared between a small number of examiners across specialized groups. The presence of 2 distinct art units suggests that the company's chemistry and materials innovations are categorized into different examination specialties.
Viren A Thakur is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently overseeing 3 pending office actions. This means that 3 of the 4 pending office actions are concentrated under a single examiner. The remaining pending action is handled by the other distinct examiner, showing a significant concentration of the company's prosecution activity with a single individual. This high concentration with this examiner suggests that the majority of the company's current feedback from the patent office is filtered through a single perspective. Practitioners should note that this examiner's specific tendencies will heavily influence the outcome of most of the company's pending matters. This structure allows for a consistent prosecution strategy across the majority of the portfolio.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (25%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 3 (75%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| THAKUR, VIREN A | 3 | 13.4% | +26.6% |
| SMITH, CHAIM A | 1 | 39.2% | +51.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19099782 | CAPSULE INTENDED FOR RECEIVING A SUBSTANCE FOR PREPARING A BEVERAGE | THAKUR, VIREN A | — |
| 19099781 | CAPSULE INTENDED FOR RECEIVING A SUBSTANCE FOR PREPARING A BEVERAGE | THAKUR, VIREN A | — |
| 19099783 | CAPSULE INTENDED FOR RECEIVING A SUBSTANCE FOR PREPARING A BEVERAGE | THAKUR, VIREN A | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19099782 | CAPSULE INTENDED FOR RECEIVING A SUBSTANCE FOR PREPARING A BEVERAGE | THAKUR, VIREN A | — |
| 19099781 | CAPSULE INTENDED FOR RECEIVING A SUBSTANCE FOR PREPARING A BEVERAGE | THAKUR, VIREN A | — |
| 19099783 | CAPSULE INTENDED FOR RECEIVING A SUBSTANCE FOR PREPARING A BEVERAGE | THAKUR, VIREN A | — |
| 19099483 | CAPSULE INTENDED FOR RECEIVING A SUBSTANCE FOR PREPARING A BEVERAGE, AND PRODUCTION METHOD | SMITH, CHAIM A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1792 | 1 |
| 1791 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19099782 | CAPSULE INTENDED FOR RECEIVING A SUBSTANCE FOR PREPARING A BEVERAGE | THAKUR, VIREN A | — | §102§103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 30, 2025 |
| 19099781 | CAPSULE INTENDED FOR RECEIVING A SUBSTANCE FOR PREPARING A BEVERAGE | THAKUR, VIREN A | 1792 | §102§103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 30, 2025 |
| 19099783 | CAPSULE INTENDED FOR RECEIVING A SUBSTANCE FOR PREPARING A BEVERAGE | THAKUR, VIREN A | — | §101§103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 30, 2025 |
| 19099483 | CAPSULE INTENDED FOR RECEIVING A SUBSTANCE FOR PREPARING A BEVERAGE, AND PRODUCTION METHOD | SMITH, CHAIM A | 1791 | §103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 29, 2025 |
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