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
Brew-Food Aps currently manages a focused patent portfolio within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. The company has 1 pending office action across its entire filing set. This 1 active matter is handled by 1 distinct examiner, indicating a concentrated prosecution effort at this stage. Such a focus suggests that the company is prioritizing a specific innovation rather than a broad array of filings.
The prosecution is localized within 1 distinct art unit. MERCHLINSKY, JOSEPH CULLEN is identified as the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently overseeing 1 pending office action. This concentration allows for a direct interaction model with the USPTO for the Chemistry & Materials filings. Because the busiest examiner is responsible for the 1 active case, the outcome of this prosecution will significantly impact the current status of the company's intellectual property holdings. The alignment of the examiner and the art unit indicates that the prosecution is occurring within a single administrative framework.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MERCHLINSKY, JOSEPH CULLEN | 1 | 5.9% | -6.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18398767 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING A BEER-BASED CONCENTRATE, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING A BEER-BASED BEVERAGE, BEER-BASED CONCENTRATE, BEER-BASED BEVERAGE CONTAINING THE SAME, AND USE OF THE BEER-BASED CONCENTRATE | MERCHLINSKY, JOSEPH CULLEN | 66d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1791 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18398767 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING A BEER-BASED CONCENTRATE, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING A BEER-BASED BEVERAGE, BEER-BASED CONCENTRATE, BEER-BASED BEVERAGE CONTAINING THE SAME, AND USE OF THE BEER-BASED CONCENTRATE | MERCHLINSKY, JOSEPH CULLEN | 1791 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 66d overdue | Pending | Dec 28, 2023 |
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