Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
4 pending office actions • 1 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Ekaterra Tea Manufacturing Usa LLC has 4 pending office actions. These are in the Chemistry & Materials technology area and are all within 1 distinct art unit. This concentration in a single art unit indicates that the company's current patenting activity is focused on a specific technical niche within the chemistry field.
The prosecution is handled by 4 distinct examiners. ASHLEY AXTELL is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending office action. Each of the 4 examiners is responsible for one of the 4 pending actions in the portfolio. This means that while all cases are in the same art unit, the company must manage 4 separate examiner relationships. This one-to-one ratio of examiners to pending actions suggests that the company's prosecution strategy should be tailored to 4 different individual perspectives to ensure consistent and successful results across the portfolio.
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 | 2 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| AXTELL, ASHLEY | 1 | 13.2% | +25.7% |
| GWARTNEY, ELIZABETH A | 1 | 36.0% | +34.8% |
| MORENO, LARK JULIA | 1 | 0.0% | +0.0% |
| HAWKINS, AMANDA SALATA | 1 | 12.0% | +45.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18248365 | A ZINC FORTIFIED TEA COMPOSITION | HAWKINS, AMANDA SALATA | 35d |
| 18874052 | AN IRON FORTIFIED INSTANT BEVERAGE COMPOSITION | AXTELL, ASHLEY | — |
| 18853352 | A PROCESS FOR PRODUCING A TEA PRODUCT | GWARTNEY, ELIZABETH A | — |
| 18257503 | AN IRON FORTIFIED TEA COMPOSITION | MORENO, LARK JULIA | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18248365 | A ZINC FORTIFIED TEA COMPOSITION | HAWKINS, AMANDA SALATA | 35d |
| 18874052 | AN IRON FORTIFIED INSTANT BEVERAGE COMPOSITION | AXTELL, ASHLEY | — |
| 18853352 | A PROCESS FOR PRODUCING A TEA PRODUCT | GWARTNEY, ELIZABETH A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1793 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18874052 | AN IRON FORTIFIED INSTANT BEVERAGE COMPOSITION | AXTELL, ASHLEY | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 11, 2024 |
| 18853352 | A PROCESS FOR PRODUCING A TEA PRODUCT | GWARTNEY, ELIZABETH A | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 01, 2024 |
| 18257503 | AN IRON FORTIFIED TEA COMPOSITION | MORENO, LARK JULIA | 1793 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 14, 2023 |
| 18248365 | A ZINC FORTIFIED TEA COMPOSITION | HAWKINS, AMANDA SALATA | 1793 | §103 | Final Rejection | 35d | Pending | Apr 07, 2023 |
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