Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
4 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
DMK DEUTSCHES MILCHKONTOR GMBH is managing 3 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These matters are assigned to 2 distinct examiners across 2 distinct art units. This structure indicates that the company is dealing with a set of technical reviews at the patent office. The presence of 2 distinct art units suggests that the applications, while all within Chemistry & Materials, cover different sub-specialties or chemical processes. This diversity requires the prosecution team to adapt to different examination environments.
CHANGQING LI is the busiest examiner for the company, holding 2 pending office actions. This accounts for 2 of the 3 total actions currently pending for the portfolio. The remaining action is handled by the other distinct examiner, making the interaction with CHANGQING LI a factor in the company's current prosecution status. Managing 2 pending office actions with this examiner allows for a consolidated communication strategy for those specific files. However, the company must still address the requirements of the 2 distinct art units involved to ensure progress across the entire Chemistry & Materials portfolio. The 3 pending office actions represent the current focus of the company's efforts to secure intellectual property rights.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (75%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LI, CHANGQING | 2 | 29.3% | +33.6% |
| DEMEREE, CHRISTOPHER R | 1 | 68.9% | +14.1% |
| TRAN, LIEN THUY | 1 | 28.6% | +26.5% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18539597 | PREBIOTIC FORMULATIONS | LI, CHANGQING | 26d |
| 18665956 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SEMI-HARD CHEESE | TRAN, LIEN THUY | — |
| 18375636 | FERMENTED PLANT PROTEINS | LI, CHANGQING | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18777102 | BAG-IN-BOX PACKAGING | DEMEREE, CHRISTOPHER R | 21d |
| 18539597 | PREBIOTIC FORMULATIONS | LI, CHANGQING | 26d |
| 18665956 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SEMI-HARD CHEESE | TRAN, LIEN THUY | — |
| 18375636 | FERMENTED PLANT PROTEINS | LI, CHANGQING | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1791 | 2 |
| 3734 | 1 |
| 1793 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18777102 | BAG-IN-BOX PACKAGING | DEMEREE, CHRISTOPHER R | 3734 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 21d | Pending | Jul 18, 2024 |
| 18665956 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SEMI-HARD CHEESE | TRAN, LIEN THUY | 1793 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 16, 2024 |
| 18539597 | PREBIOTIC FORMULATIONS | LI, CHANGQING | 1791 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 26d | Pending | Dec 14, 2023 |
| 18375636 | FERMENTED PLANT PROTEINS | LI, CHANGQING | 1791 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 02, 2023 |
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