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
Compagnie Laitiere Europeenne has 1 pending office action located in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This workload is distributed across 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, reflecting a very narrow prosecution footprint. The company's current legal efforts are focused on a single point of contact within the patent office. This concentration suggests that the pending application is highly specialized within its field.
JANICE Y SILVERMAN serves as the busiest examiner for the portfolio, with 1 busiest examiner pending office action. This action represents the total volume of 1 pending office action for the entire company. Consequently, the outcome of the company's current prosecution depends on the review conducted by this examiner. There is no diversification of examiner perspectives to mitigate the risk of a negative determination.
With only 1 distinct art unit involved, the technical scope of the pending matter is highly specific. The alignment of the distinct examiner with the pending office action means there is no variation in examination styles in the current pipeline. Practitioners should focus their resources on the specific requirements of JANICE Y SILVERMAN to resolve the pending matter. The company's strategy should prioritize a direct and thorough engagement with this examiner to ensure the best possible outcome.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SILVERMAN, JANICE Y | 1 | 36.7% | +53.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18286659 | MILK-BASED EXPANDED FOOD PREPARATION, METHOD FOR OBTAINING SAME, AND USES THEREOF | SILVERMAN, JANICE Y | 17d 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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18286659 | MILK-BASED EXPANDED FOOD PREPARATION, METHOD FOR OBTAINING SAME, AND USES THEREOF | SILVERMAN, JANICE Y | 17d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1792 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18286659 | MILK-BASED EXPANDED FOOD PREPARATION, METHOD FOR OBTAINING SAME, AND USES THEREOF | SILVERMAN, JANICE Y | 1792 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 17d overdue | Pending | Oct 12, 2023 |
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