Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
14 pending office actions • 5 art units • 11 examiners • 0 of 14 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 12 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. 12 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 | 12 (86%) |
| §102 only | 1 (7%) |
| §112 only | 1 (7%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LI, CHANGQING | 2 | 30.0% | +34.0% |
| SHELLHAMMER, JAMES PAUL | 2 | 0.0% | +0.0% |
| ZILBERING, ASSAF | 2 | 33.7% | +27.0% |
| TRAN, LIEN THUY | 1 | 28.3% | +26.2% |
| KOHLER, STEPHANIE A | 1 | 31.2% | +31.1% |
| DRODGE, JOSEPH W | 1 | 78.2% | +38.1% |
| MCCLAIN, TYNESHA L. | 1 | 15.6% | +24.8% |
| LIU, DEBORAH YANG-HAO | 1 | 2.6% | -3.2% |
| ROBINSON, HOPE A | 1 | 67.9% | +43.2% |
| MERRIAM, ANDREW E | 1 | 23.0% | +31.4% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18281566 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING OIL AND/OR FAT COMPOSITION FOR INFANT FORMULA | MCCLAIN, TYNESHA L. | 49d overdue |
| 18694999 | NON-TRANS AND NON-TEMPERED OIL AND/OR FAT FOR CHOCOLATES | TRAN, LIEN THUY | 46d overdue |
| 18028759 | PLANT-BASED SOUP BASE AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME, AND SOUP AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME | LIU, DEBORAH YANG-HAO | 16d |
| 18271846 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING FISH FRY-LIKE FOOD | SHELLHAMMER, JAMES PAUL | 23d |
| 18284607 | OIL-BASED FOOD PRODUCT | SHELLHAMMER, JAMES PAUL | — |
| 17922377 | GRAPE JUICE-CONTAINING GUMMY CONTAINING POLYUNSATURATED FATTY ACID | MERRIAM, ANDREW E | — |
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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18264315 | METHOD FOR PROMOTING SOLIDIFICATION OF OIL AND FAT | ZILBERING, ASSAF | 73d overdue |
| 18281566 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING OIL AND/OR FAT COMPOSITION FOR INFANT FORMULA | MCCLAIN, TYNESHA L. | 49d overdue |
| 18694999 | NON-TRANS AND NON-TEMPERED OIL AND/OR FAT FOR CHOCOLATES | TRAN, LIEN THUY | 46d overdue |
| 17040105 | FAT COMPOSITION | ZILBERING, ASSAF | 36d overdue |
| 18570910 | METHOD FOR SEPARATING AND QUANTIFYING SATURATED AND UNSATURATED DIALKYL KETONES | DRODGE, JOSEPH W | 9d overdue |
| 18012979 | ENZYME-IMMOBILIZATION CARRIER AND IMMOBILIZED ENZYME THAT USES SAME | ROBINSON, HOPE A | 4d overdue |
| 18689913 | OILY FOOD CONTAINING HEAT-GENERATING MATERIAL | KOHLER, STEPHANIE A | 1d overdue |
| 18570054 | MASKING FLAVORANT | LI, CHANGQING | 13d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1791 | 5 |
| 1793 | 4 |
| 1792 | 3 |
| 1773 | 1 |
| 1652 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18694999 | NON-TRANS AND NON-TEMPERED OIL AND/OR FAT FOR CHOCOLATES | TRAN, LIEN THUY | 1793 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 46d overdue | Pending | Mar 25, 2024 |
| 18689913 | OILY FOOD CONTAINING HEAT-GENERATING MATERIAL | KOHLER, STEPHANIE A | 1791 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 1d overdue | Pending | Mar 07, 2024 |
| 18570910 | METHOD FOR SEPARATING AND QUANTIFYING SATURATED AND UNSATURATED DIALKYL KETONES | DRODGE, JOSEPH W | 1773 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 9d overdue | Pending | Dec 15, 2023 |
| 18570054 | MASKING FLAVORANT | LI, CHANGQING | 1791 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 13d | Pending | Dec 13, 2023 |
| 18284607 | OIL-BASED FOOD PRODUCT | SHELLHAMMER, JAMES PAUL | 1793 | §102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 28, 2023 |
| 18281566 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING OIL AND/OR FAT COMPOSITION FOR INFANT FORMULA | MCCLAIN, TYNESHA L. | 1793 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 49d overdue | Pending | Sep 12, 2023 |
| 18548811 | VEGETABLE MOULDED CHEESE-LIKE FOOD PRODUCT | LI, CHANGQING | 1791 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 20d | Pending | Sep 01, 2023 |
| 18264315 | METHOD FOR PROMOTING SOLIDIFICATION OF OIL AND FAT | ZILBERING, ASSAF | 1792 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 73d overdue | Pending | Aug 04, 2023 |
| 18271846 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING FISH FRY-LIKE FOOD | SHELLHAMMER, JAMES PAUL | 1793 | §103 | Final Rejection | 23d | Pending | Jul 11, 2023 |
| 18028759 | PLANT-BASED SOUP BASE AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME, AND SOUP AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME | LIU, DEBORAH YANG-HAO | 1791 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 16d | Pending | Mar 28, 2023 |
| 18012979 | ENZYME-IMMOBILIZATION CARRIER AND IMMOBILIZED ENZYME THAT USES SAME | ROBINSON, HOPE A | 1652 | §112 | Final Rejection | 4d overdue | Pending | Dec 27, 2022 |
| 17922377 | GRAPE JUICE-CONTAINING GUMMY CONTAINING POLYUNSATURATED FATTY ACID | MERRIAM, ANDREW E | 1791 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 31, 2022 |
| 17289720 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING ALMOND-FLAVORED OIL AND FAT | LACHICA, ERICSON M | 1792 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 58d overdue | Pending | Apr 29, 2022 |
| 17040105 | FAT COMPOSITION | ZILBERING, ASSAF | 1792 | §103 | Final Rejection | 36d overdue | Pending | Sep 22, 2020 |
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