Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Fairlife LLC currently has 3 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are assigned to 2 distinct art units. The portfolio involves 3 distinct examiners, including ZILBERING, ASSAF, who is the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action.
The 3 pending office actions are handled by 3 distinct examiners, showing a lack of concentration. With 2 distinct art units involved, the Chemistry & Materials filings are reviewed by different groups. Practitioners must coordinate across the 3 distinct examiners to resolve the 3 pending office actions.
The busiest examiner is currently assigned 1 pending office action, representing a standard workload for this portfolio. This distribution across 2 distinct art units requires a coordinated strategy to ensure consistency. Practitioners can focus on the specific requirements of the 3 pending office actions to advance the portfolio.
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 | 2 (67%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ZILBERING, ASSAF | 1 | 35.3% | +27.6% |
| BEKKER, KELLY JO | 1 | 16.8% | +35.1% |
| MORNHINWEG, JEFFREY P | 1 | 36.7% | +32.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18554589 | OAT FRACTIONATION PROCESS AND BEVERAGES PRODUCED THEREFROM | BEKKER, KELLY JO | 8d 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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18554589 | OAT FRACTIONATION PROCESS AND BEVERAGES PRODUCED THEREFROM | BEKKER, KELLY JO | 8d overdue |
| 18252398 | CONTINUOUS LACTOSE HYDROLYSIS IN MILK AND OTHER DAIRY PRODUCTS | MORNHINWEG, JEFFREY P | 29d |
| 19015961 | PRODUCTION AND SEPARATION OF MILK FRACTIONS WITH DIAFILTRATION | ZILBERING, ASSAF | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1792 | 1 |
| 1793 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19015961 | PRODUCTION AND SEPARATION OF MILK FRACTIONS WITH DIAFILTRATION | ZILBERING, ASSAF | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 10, 2025 |
| 18554589 | OAT FRACTIONATION PROCESS AND BEVERAGES PRODUCED THEREFROM | BEKKER, KELLY JO | 1792 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 8d overdue | Pending | Oct 09, 2023 |
| 18252398 | CONTINUOUS LACTOSE HYDROLYSIS IN MILK AND OTHER DAIRY PRODUCTS | MORNHINWEG, JEFFREY P | 1793 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 29d | Pending | May 10, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialFairlife LLC has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 3 examiners.
Assaf Zilbering has the most, with 1 of Fairlife LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
