Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Fermentationexperts A/S has 2 pending office actions in Chemistry & Materials. The matters involve 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units, so the pending work is distributed across separate examination channels.
BEKKER, KELLY JO is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. That assignment is one part of the total pending activity. A consistent fermentation and chemistry claim strategy can be maintained across the matters while responses address their separate examination contexts.
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 (50%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BEKKER, KELLY JO | 1 | 16.8% | +35.1% |
| PRAKASH, SUBBALAKSHMI | 1 | 45.6% | +36.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18278996 | EDIBLE PRODUCT COMPRISING LAB FERMENTED MATERIAL | BEKKER, KELLY JO | 42d 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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17776551 | MEAT ANALOGUE COMPRISING LAB FERMENTED MATERIAL | PRAKASH, SUBBALAKSHMI | 98d overdue |
| 18278996 | EDIBLE PRODUCT COMPRISING LAB FERMENTED MATERIAL | BEKKER, KELLY JO | 42d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1792 | 1 |
| 1793 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18278996 | EDIBLE PRODUCT COMPRISING LAB FERMENTED MATERIAL | BEKKER, KELLY JO | 1792 | §103§112DP | Final Rejection | 42d overdue | Pending | Aug 25, 2023 |
| 17776551 | MEAT ANALOGUE COMPRISING LAB FERMENTED MATERIAL | PRAKASH, SUBBALAKSHMI | 1793 | §103 | Final Rejection | 98d overdue | Pending | May 12, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialFermentationexperts A/S has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Kelly Jo Bekker has the most, with 1 of Fermentationexperts A/S's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
