Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Decco Worldwide Post-Harvest Holdings B V currently manages 2 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are distributed among 2 distinct examiners, yet they both fall within 1 distinct art unit. This suggests that while the technical subject matter is consistent enough to remain in 1 art unit, the cases are being handled by different individuals with potentially different examination styles.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is BABSON, NICOLE PLOURDE, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. This means the workload is split, with each of the 2 distinct examiners handling 1 of the pending matters. For practitioners, this indicates that although the prosecution is centralized within 1 distinct art unit, the company must navigate the specific preferences of 2 different examiners for its current chemistry and materials applications. Managing 2 pending office actions across 2 distinct examiners requires a strategy that accounts for individual examiner variability.
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) | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BABSON, NICOLE PLOURDE | 1 | 46.6% | +33.1% |
| GERLA, STEPHANIE RAE | 1 | 16.7% | +33.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18835916 | BIO-CONTROL COMBINATIONS, COMPOSITIONS AND METHOD OF USE | BABSON, NICOLE PLOURDE | — |
| 16648824 | A METHOD FOR TREATING AND CONTROLLING POST-HARVEST PHYSIOLOGICAL DISORDERS IN FRUIT VIA EDIBLE COATINGS | GERLA, STEPHANIE RAE | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18835916 | BIO-CONTROL COMBINATIONS, COMPOSITIONS AND METHOD OF USE | BABSON, NICOLE PLOURDE | — |
| 16648824 | A METHOD FOR TREATING AND CONTROLLING POST-HARVEST PHYSIOLOGICAL DISORDERS IN FRUIT VIA EDIBLE COATINGS | GERLA, STEPHANIE RAE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1791 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18835916 | BIO-CONTROL COMBINATIONS, COMPOSITIONS AND METHOD OF USE | BABSON, NICOLE PLOURDE | — | §103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 05, 2024 |
| 16648824 | A METHOD FOR TREATING AND CONTROLLING POST-HARVEST PHYSIOLOGICAL DISORDERS IN FRUIT VIA EDIBLE COATINGS | GERLA, STEPHANIE RAE | 1791 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 19, 2020 |
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