Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Chemistry & Materials
6 pending office actions • 3 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Fonterra Co-Operative Group Limited manages a portfolio within the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. The company currently faces 5 pending office actions, which are distributed among 5 distinct examiners. This arrangement requires the company to address the specific requirements of 5 different individuals at the patent office.
These pending actions are situated within 3 distinct art units, suggesting some overlap in technical classification despite the variety of examiners. Brent T O'Hern is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, though he is responsible for only 1 pending matter. This distribution indicates that no single examiner dominates the company's current prosecution landscape, as the 5 pending office actions are spread widely across the available personnel within the patent office.
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 |
|---|---|
| §102 only | 1 (17%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (17%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (67%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| O'HERN, BRENT T | 1 | 78.5% | +19.8% |
| GURLEY, JAMI MICHELLE | 1 | 53.3% | +16.1% |
| ARMATO JR, DENNIS IGNATIUS | 1 | 42.9% | +80.0% |
| MOREAU, NASHARA LOUISE | 1 | 80.0% | -100.0% |
| MCNEIL, JENNIFER C | 1 | 23.9% | +19.1% |
| MORNHINWEG, JEFFREY P | 1 | 36.3% | +32.1% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18543604 | METHODS FOR INCREASING MENTAL WELL-BEING AND/OR HAPPINESS | ARMATO JR, DENNIS IGNATIUS | 16d overdue |
| 18564539 | DAIRY PRODUCT AND PROCESS | MCNEIL, JENNIFER C | 12d |
| 18760978 | DAIRY PRODUCT AND PROCESS | O'HERN, BRENT T | — |
| 18564242 | FOOD SUPPLEMENT | MOREAU, NASHARA LOUISE | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18543604 | METHODS FOR INCREASING MENTAL WELL-BEING AND/OR HAPPINESS | ARMATO JR, DENNIS IGNATIUS | 16d overdue |
| 18564539 | DAIRY PRODUCT AND PROCESS | MCNEIL, JENNIFER C | 12d |
| 18760978 | DAIRY PRODUCT AND PROCESS | O'HERN, BRENT T | — |
| 18571576 | RECOMBINANT PROTEINS | GURLEY, JAMI MICHELLE | — |
| 18247424 | DAIRY PRODUCT AND PROCESS | MORNHINWEG, JEFFREY P | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1793 | 2 |
| 1651 | 1 |
| 1655 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18760978 | DAIRY PRODUCT AND PROCESS | O'HERN, BRENT T | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 01, 2024 |
| 18571576 | RECOMBINANT PROTEINS | GURLEY, JAMI MICHELLE | — | §102§103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 18, 2023 |
| 18543604 | METHODS FOR INCREASING MENTAL WELL-BEING AND/OR HAPPINESS | ARMATO JR, DENNIS IGNATIUS | 1651 | §102§103Other | Final Rejection | 16d overdue | Pending | Dec 18, 2023 |
| 18564242 | FOOD SUPPLEMENT | MOREAU, NASHARA LOUISE | 1655 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 27, 2023 |
| 18564539 | DAIRY PRODUCT AND PROCESS | MCNEIL, JENNIFER C | 1793 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 12d | Pending | Nov 27, 2023 |
| 18247424 | DAIRY PRODUCT AND PROCESS | MORNHINWEG, JEFFREY P | 1793 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 30, 2023 |
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