Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Fonterra Co-Opertive Group Limited currently faces 1 pending office action in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. Prosecution is centralized, involving 1 distinct examiner and a distinct art unit. This concentration simplifies the monitoring of pending matters to a specific administrative path within the patent office. The alignment of the active application with this technology area reflects the company's current patenting priorities.
The busiest examiner, NGUYEN, THANH H, is assigned the only pending office action. This figure represents the total volume of pending office actions for the company. Prosecution efforts are dependent on the review and feedback provided by this specific examiner within the identified art unit. Practitioners should focus on the examiner's previous actions and preferences to navigate the current prosecution cycle. Addressing the specific concerns of this individual is the primary path to securing patent rights for the pending matter.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 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 (100%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NGUYEN, THANH H | 1 | 18.5% | +34.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17907246 | DAIRY PRODUCTS AND PROCESSES | NGUYEN, THANH H | 25d 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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17907246 | DAIRY PRODUCTS AND PROCESSES | NGUYEN, THANH H | 25d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1792 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17907246 | DAIRY PRODUCTS AND PROCESSES | NGUYEN, THANH H | 1792 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 25d overdue | Pending | Sep 23, 2022 |
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