Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Fairlife LLC is managing 4 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are assigned to 3 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. This structure indicates a moderate level of concentration within the patent office, as the 4 pending office actions are being reviewed by a smaller number of examiners. This overlap can sometimes lead to more consistent prosecution outcomes if the examiners share similar views on the underlying chemistry.
MORNHINWEG, JEFFREY P is the busiest examiner for the company. This examiner is responsible for 2 pending office actions, which is 2 of the 4 total pending actions for the portfolio. Having 2 pending office actions with a single examiner allows the company to build a more direct relationship and potentially streamline its responses. However, the remaining actions are split among other distinct examiners across 2 distinct art units, requiring the company to maintain a flexible strategy. The presence of 3 distinct examiners in total means that the company's prosecution team must balance the benefits of examiner concentration with the need to address the specific requirements of multiple office professionals.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MORNHINWEG, JEFFREY P | 2 | 36.3% | +32.1% |
| BEKKER, KELLY JO | 1 | 16.7% | +35.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18554569 | METHODS FOR MAKING A YOGURT PRODUCT | MORNHINWEG, JEFFREY P | 42d overdue |
| 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 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1793 | 2 |
| 1792 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18554569 | METHODS FOR MAKING A YOGURT PRODUCT | MORNHINWEG, JEFFREY P | 1793 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 42d overdue | Pending | Oct 09, 2023 |
| 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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