Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Chemistry & Materials
4 pending office actions • 3 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Florida Research Group LLC has 3 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These 3 actions are distributed among 3 distinct examiners, ensuring that no examiner is handling more than this matter. The portfolio spans 2 distinct art units, indicating a relatively focused technical scope for these filings within the Chemistry & Materials field. The 2 distinct art units suggest that the company is active in multiple specialized areas of chemistry.
The busiest examiner is PERREIRA, MELISSA JEAN, who holds 1 busiest examiner pending action. Because there are 3 distinct examiners for the 3 pending office actions, the prosecution workload is decentralized. Success in the 2 distinct art units will require addressing the individual feedback of the 3 distinct examiners. Practitioners should note that the 1 busiest examiner pending action represents only a portion of the total active portfolio, requiring a strategy that accounts for the preferences of the officials involved.
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 (50%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PERREIRA, MELISSA JEAN | 1 | 52.0% | +25.8% |
| KERSHAW, KELLY P | 1 | 17.7% | +16.0% |
| MERCHLINSKY, JOSEPH CULLEN | 1 | 5.9% | -6.3% |
| ZHANG SPIERING, DONGXIU | 1 | 45.2% | +70.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18302171 | IMPROVED METHODS OF MAKING NON-AQUEOUS CHEWS | MERCHLINSKY, JOSEPH CULLEN | 20d |
| 18352393 | EASILY SPOONABLE PROTEIN-RICH SUPPLEMENT PASTE | KERSHAW, KELLY P | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18969629 | Stable Soft Chews, and Methods to Produce Same | PERREIRA, MELISSA JEAN | 26d overdue |
| 18352393 | EASILY SPOONABLE PROTEIN-RICH SUPPLEMENT PASTE | KERSHAW, KELLY P | — |
| 18159806 | SOLID DISPERSION FOR THERAPEUTIC USE | ZHANG SPIERING, DONGXIU | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1791 | 2 |
| 1618 | 1 |
| 1616 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18969629 | Stable Soft Chews, and Methods to Produce Same | PERREIRA, MELISSA JEAN | 1618 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 26d overdue | Pending | Dec 05, 2024 |
| 18352393 | EASILY SPOONABLE PROTEIN-RICH SUPPLEMENT PASTE | KERSHAW, KELLY P | 1791 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 14, 2023 |
| 18302171 | IMPROVED METHODS OF MAKING NON-AQUEOUS CHEWS | MERCHLINSKY, JOSEPH CULLEN | 1791 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 20d | Pending | Apr 18, 2023 |
| 18159806 | SOLID DISPERSION FOR THERAPEUTIC USE | ZHANG SPIERING, DONGXIU | 1616 | §103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 26, 2023 |
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