Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Chemistry & Materials
6 pending office actions • 4 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Can Technologies Inc. has 7 pending office actions in Chemistry & Materials. Each action is assigned to a distinct examiner, while the portfolio spans 5 distinct art units. This indicates no examiner concentration but some repetition among the technical examination units.
BLOUNT, ERIC is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. Counsel should focus on the separate prosecution histories and use the repeated art-unit assignments to compare chemistry and materials issues where the disclosures or claim structures are related.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 1 (17%) |
| §112 only | 1 (17%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 2 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BLOUNT, ERIC | 1 | 78.3% | +3.4% |
| LE, EMILY M | 1 | 17.9% | -3.7% |
| AFREMOVA, VERA | 1 | 50.5% | +29.4% |
| O'HERN, BRENT T | 1 | 78.5% | +19.4% |
| LOVE, TREVOR M | 1 | 43.1% | +26.8% |
| SHELLHAMMER, JAMES PAUL | 1 | 10.0% | +18.8% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18901219 | UNIQUE BLEND OF PLANT-DERIVED COMPONENTS IN DRINKING WATER TO SUPPORT PIGLETS | LE, EMILY M | — |
| 18670991 | METHOD FOR REDUCING THE INCIDENCE OF PECTORAL MYOPATHY IN POULTRY FEED | AFREMOVA, VERA | — |
| 18708116 | HIGH PLANT PUFA FISH FOOD | O'HERN, BRENT T | — |
| 18252386 | INSECT OIL IN SWINE FEED | SHELLHAMMER, JAMES PAUL | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18655886 | METHOD FOR IMPROVING MEAT QUALITY | LOVE, TREVOR M | 25d overdue |
| 18670991 | METHOD FOR REDUCING THE INCIDENCE OF PECTORAL MYOPATHY IN POULTRY FEED | AFREMOVA, VERA | — |
| 18708116 | HIGH PLANT PUFA FISH FOOD | O'HERN, BRENT T | — |
| 18252386 | INSECT OIL IN SWINE FEED | SHELLHAMMER, JAMES PAUL | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1793 | 3 |
| 2685 | 1 |
| 1653 | 1 |
| 1611 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19364265 | ENERGY-BASED ANIMAL NUTRITION MODELING AND FORMULATION SYSTEMS | BLOUNT, ERIC | 2685 | §112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 21, 2025 |
| 18901219 | UNIQUE BLEND OF PLANT-DERIVED COMPONENTS IN DRINKING WATER TO SUPPORT PIGLETS | LE, EMILY M | 1793 | §102§103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 30, 2024 |
| 18670991 | METHOD FOR REDUCING THE INCIDENCE OF PECTORAL MYOPATHY IN POULTRY FEED | AFREMOVA, VERA | 1653 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 22, 2024 |
| 18708116 | HIGH PLANT PUFA FISH FOOD | O'HERN, BRENT T | 1793 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 07, 2024 |
| 18655886 | METHOD FOR IMPROVING MEAT QUALITY | LOVE, TREVOR M | 1611 | §102DP | Final Rejection | 25d overdue | Pending | May 06, 2024 |
| 18252386 | INSECT OIL IN SWINE FEED | SHELLHAMMER, JAMES PAUL | 1793 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 10, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialCan Technologies Inc. has 6 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 4 art units and 6 examiners.
Eric Blount has the most, with 1 of Can Technologies Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
