Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
5 pending office actions • 3 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 11 patents granted in the last 365 days
Frieslandcampina Nederland B V has 5 pending office actions in its patent portfolio within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These 5 actions are assigned to 4 distinct examiners. The prosecution is occurring across 3 distinct art units, suggesting that the company's technology spans multiple sub-categories within its primary field. The use of 3 distinct art units within the Chemistry & Materials area means that practitioners must coordinate across three different technical groups.
The busiest examiner for the company is GERLA, STEPHANIE RAE, who is currently responsible for 2 pending office actions. Since there are 5 pending actions in total, GERLA, STEPHANIE RAE handles a larger portion of the workload compared to the other 3 distinct examiners. This indicates that this examiner has a significant role in the company's current prosecution. The 5 to 4 ratio of pending actions to examiners shows that at least one examiner is handling multiple applications. This distribution provides a variety of examiner perspectives while highlighting a concentration of work with GERLA, STEPHANIE RAE.
Practitioners should be prepared to manage 4 different examiner relationships while navigating the specific standards of 3 art units. This profile represents a balanced prosecution environment where individual examiner attention is maintained across multiple technical departments. The involvement of 3 distinct art units suggests that the company's innovations touch upon different sub-specialties within the Chemistry & Materials sector. This data provides a baseline for future filings, as any expansion in the portfolio will likely introduce new examiners or art units.
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 (20%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 2 (40%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (40%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GERLA, STEPHANIE RAE | 2 | 16.7% | +33.0% |
| RAGHU, GANAPATHIRAM | 1 | 73.6% | +26.4% |
| LE, EMILY M | 1 | 17.6% | -3.1% |
| ZILBERING, ASSAF | 1 | 35.2% | +27.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18392755 | POWDERED WHIPPING AGENT PROVIDING ENHANCED WHIPPED FOOD TEXTURE | GERLA, STEPHANIE RAE | 26d overdue |
| 18845860 | ENZYMATIC PROCESS FOR THE PREPARATION OF LACTULOSE | RAGHU, GANAPATHIRAM | — |
| 18806349 | POWDERED WHIPPING AGENT HAVING IMPROVED FUNCTIONALITY | GERLA, STEPHANIE RAE | — |
| 18720565 | IMMUNOGLOBULIN ENRICHED MILK FRACTION | LE, EMILY M | — |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18392755 | POWDERED WHIPPING AGENT PROVIDING ENHANCED WHIPPED FOOD TEXTURE | GERLA, STEPHANIE RAE | 26d overdue |
| 18845860 | ENZYMATIC PROCESS FOR THE PREPARATION OF LACTULOSE | RAGHU, GANAPATHIRAM | — |
| 18806349 | POWDERED WHIPPING AGENT HAVING IMPROVED FUNCTIONALITY | GERLA, STEPHANIE RAE | — |
| 17801608 | PROCESS FOR THE PREPARATION OF A FIBROUS PRODUCT | ZILBERING, ASSAF | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1791 | 2 |
| 1793 | 1 |
| 1792 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18845860 | ENZYMATIC PROCESS FOR THE PREPARATION OF LACTULOSE | RAGHU, GANAPATHIRAM | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 10, 2024 |
| 18806349 | POWDERED WHIPPING AGENT HAVING IMPROVED FUNCTIONALITY | GERLA, STEPHANIE RAE | 1791 | §103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 15, 2024 |
| 18720565 | IMMUNOGLOBULIN ENRICHED MILK FRACTION | LE, EMILY M | 1793 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 14, 2024 |
| 18392755 | POWDERED WHIPPING AGENT PROVIDING ENHANCED WHIPPED FOOD TEXTURE | GERLA, STEPHANIE RAE | 1791 | §103DP | Non-Final OA | 26d overdue | Pending | Dec 21, 2023 |
| 17801608 | PROCESS FOR THE PREPARATION OF A FIBROUS PRODUCT | ZILBERING, ASSAF | 1792 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 23, 2022 |
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