Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Chemistry & Materials
5 pending office actions • 3 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Fermentationexperts A/S has 5 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These matters are spread across 3 distinct art units, indicating a diverse range of technical classifications for the company's current filings. Managing 5 pending office actions across 3 distinct art units requires the applicant to address a variety of technical standards within the Chemistry & Materials field.
The prosecution involves multiple distinct examiners, with each pending action assigned to a different person. LACHICA, ERICSON M is the busiest examiner, holding 1 busiest examiner pending action. This high ratio of examiners to actions means the company must adapt to different examination styles. With 5 distinct examiners involved, the company's success depends on its ability to satisfy the unique requirements of each individual rather than focusing on a particular examiner's tendencies. This distribution across 5 distinct examiners provides a broad base of feedback for the company's ongoing patent strategy.
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 | 1 (20%) |
| §102 only | 1 (20%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 2 (40%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (20%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LACHICA, ERICSON M | 1 | 30.0% | +35.4% |
| BEKKER, KELLY JO | 1 | 16.7% | +35.4% |
| TURNER, FELICIA C | 1 | 26.3% | +30.1% |
| PRAKASH, SUBBALAKSHMI | 1 | 45.7% | +36.1% |
| RAMIREZ, DELIA M | 1 | 65.1% | +56.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18278996 | EDIBLE PRODUCT COMPRISING LAB FERMENTED MATERIAL | BEKKER, KELLY JO | 42d overdue |
| 18036568 | Process for providing a combination of fermented seaweed and/or algae and plant material selected from the family Fabaceae | TURNER, FELICIA C | — |
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 5 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 |
| 17277585 | PROCESS FOR CONTROLLING A FERMENTATION PROCESS | RAMIREZ, DELIA M | 28d |
| 18841876 | FEED COMPRISING FERMENTED SOY AND SEAWEED AND/OR ALGAE | LACHICA, ERICSON M | — |
| 18036568 | Process for providing a combination of fermented seaweed and/or algae and plant material selected from the family Fabaceae | TURNER, FELICIA C | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1793 | 2 |
| 1792 | 1 |
| 1652 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18841876 | FEED COMPRISING FERMENTED SOY AND SEAWEED AND/OR ALGAE | LACHICA, ERICSON M | — | §102§103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 27, 2024 |
| 18278996 | EDIBLE PRODUCT COMPRISING LAB FERMENTED MATERIAL | BEKKER, KELLY JO | 1792 | §103§112DP | Final Rejection | 42d overdue | Pending | Aug 25, 2023 |
| 18036568 | Process for providing a combination of fermented seaweed and/or algae and plant material selected from the family Fabaceae | TURNER, FELICIA C | 1793 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 11, 2023 |
| 17776551 | MEAT ANALOGUE COMPRISING LAB FERMENTED MATERIAL | PRAKASH, SUBBALAKSHMI | 1793 | §103 | Final Rejection | 98d overdue | Pending | May 12, 2022 |
| 17277585 | PROCESS FOR CONTROLLING A FERMENTATION PROCESS | RAMIREZ, DELIA M | 1652 | §102 | Non-Final OA | 28d | Pending | Mar 18, 2021 |
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