Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Bunge Loders Croklaan B V currently manages 3 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This prosecution activity is distributed among 3 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. Such a distribution suggests a broad administrative scope for the company's current patent filings compared to a more centralized docket.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is O'HERN, BRENT T, who is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending office action. This examiner handles a portion of the company's pending workload while other examiners manage the remaining actions. Practitioners should prepare for various examination styles as the current matters are spread across 3 distinct examiners.
The presence of 2 distinct art units indicates that the technical subject matter is being reviewed by different specialized groups. The 3 pending office actions represent the total current administrative burden for the company in the Chemistry & Materials sector. This alignment shows examiner diversity in the current docket as matters are not confined to a single point of review.
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 | 2 (67%) |
| §112 only | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| O'HERN, BRENT T | 1 | 78.5% | +19.8% |
| SHELLHAMMER, JAMES PAUL | 1 | 10.0% | +18.8% |
| DUBOIS, PHILIP A | 1 | 25.5% | +26.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17778706 | MEAT ANALOGUE PRODUCT AND METHOD | SHELLHAMMER, JAMES PAUL | 46d overdue |
| 16499583 | Emulsifier Composition Obtainable from Free Fatty Acids | DUBOIS, PHILIP A | 2d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17778706 | MEAT ANALOGUE PRODUCT AND METHOD | SHELLHAMMER, JAMES PAUL | 46d overdue |
| 17794643 | Aerated Fat Emulsion | O'HERN, BRENT T | 9d overdue |
| 16499583 | Emulsifier Composition Obtainable from Free Fatty Acids | DUBOIS, PHILIP A | 2d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1793 | 2 |
| 1791 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17794643 | Aerated Fat Emulsion | O'HERN, BRENT T | 1793 | §112 | Final Rejection | 9d overdue | Pending | Jul 22, 2022 |
| 17778706 | MEAT ANALOGUE PRODUCT AND METHOD | SHELLHAMMER, JAMES PAUL | 1793 | §103 | Final Rejection | 46d overdue | Pending | May 20, 2022 |
| 16499583 | Emulsifier Composition Obtainable from Free Fatty Acids | DUBOIS, PHILIP A | 1791 | §103 | Final Rejection | 2d overdue | Pending | Sep 30, 2019 |
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