Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
4 pending office actions • 4 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Evertree maintains a patent portfolio with 4 pending office actions focused in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are distributed across distinct examiners, suggesting a broad spread of scrutiny for the company's current applications. The workload is further dispersed across 4 distinct art units, which reflects a diverse range of technical classifications within the chemistry sector. This distribution indicates that no single examiner or art unit dominates the current prosecution landscape for the firm. The busiest examiner identified in the data is SCHWARTZ, KEVIN EDWARD, who is currently handling 1 busiest examiner pending action.
Because the distinct examiners are each managing a portion of the workload, the prosecution is balanced across the assigned personnel. This lack of concentration may require the company to adapt to the specific preferences of different individuals across 4 separate art units simultaneously. Managing such a distributed portfolio requires a versatile legal strategy to address the unique requirements of each examiner. The 1 busiest examiner pending action assigned to SCHWARTZ, KEVIN EDWARD represents just one component of the 4 pending office actions total, highlighting the decentralized nature of the company's current patent activities.
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%) |
| §112 only | 1 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (25%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SCHWARTZ, KEVIN EDWARD | 1 | 51.3% | +40.0% |
| ZHANG, RUIYUN | 1 | 70.4% | +10.6% |
| LING, DORIS | 1 | 25.0% | +27.3% |
| WU, ANDREA | 1 | 68.4% | +20.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17755264 | COMPOSITION COMPRISING GROUND PLANT SEED, PROTEIN ISOLATE, STARCH OR A MIXTURE THEREOF, METAL OXIDE AND PLASTICIZER | LING, DORIS | 19d |
| 18577818 | PROCESS FOR REDUCING BUILD UP OF A WATER INSOLUBLE COMPOSITION IN A CENTRIFUGAL ATOMIZER | SCHWARTZ, KEVIN EDWARD | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17755264 | COMPOSITION COMPRISING GROUND PLANT SEED, PROTEIN ISOLATE, STARCH OR A MIXTURE THEREOF, METAL OXIDE AND PLASTICIZER | LING, DORIS | 19d |
| 18577818 | PROCESS FOR REDUCING BUILD UP OF A WATER INSOLUBLE COMPOSITION IN A CENTRIFUGAL ATOMIZER | SCHWARTZ, KEVIN EDWARD | — |
| 18554384 | PROCESS FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF A LIGNOCELLULOSIC FIBRE-BASED COMPOSITE MATERIAL USING FORMULATED PLANT SEED PELLETS AND COMPOSITE MATERIAL OBTAINED BY SUCH PROCESS | ZHANG, RUIYUN | — |
| 17348902 | PROTEIN-CONTAINING ADHESIVES, AND MANUFACTURE AND USE THEREOF | WU, ANDREA | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3752 | 1 |
| 1782 | 1 |
| 1764 | 1 |
| 1763 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18577818 | PROCESS FOR REDUCING BUILD UP OF A WATER INSOLUBLE COMPOSITION IN A CENTRIFUGAL ATOMIZER | SCHWARTZ, KEVIN EDWARD | 3752 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 09, 2024 |
| 18554384 | PROCESS FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF A LIGNOCELLULOSIC FIBRE-BASED COMPOSITE MATERIAL USING FORMULATED PLANT SEED PELLETS AND COMPOSITE MATERIAL OBTAINED BY SUCH PROCESS | ZHANG, RUIYUN | 1782 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 06, 2023 |
| 17755264 | COMPOSITION COMPRISING GROUND PLANT SEED, PROTEIN ISOLATE, STARCH OR A MIXTURE THEREOF, METAL OXIDE AND PLASTICIZER | LING, DORIS | 1764 | §103 | Final Rejection | 19d | Pending | Apr 25, 2022 |
| 17348902 | PROTEIN-CONTAINING ADHESIVES, AND MANUFACTURE AND USE THEREOF | WU, ANDREA | 1763 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 16, 2021 |
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