Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Green Ip LLC currently manages a portfolio focused on Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems. The prosecution landscape for this entity involves 2 pending office actions distributed across 2 distinct art units. This distribution suggests a varied technological focus within the primary sector, requiring coordination across different examination groups. The presence of 2 distinct examiners indicates that the workload is split among the assigned personnel, as no individual examiner handles the entirety of the pending matters.
HAYES, KRISTEN C is identified as the busiest examiner for this portfolio, currently overseeing 1 pending office action. This specific examiner accounts for a portion of the total pending workload currently active for the company. Practitioners should note that the 2 distinct examiners are operating in 2 distinct art units, which may lead to different procedural expectations or timelines depending on the specific unit's internal practices. Managing the 2 pending office actions requires attention to the specific requirements of HAYES, KRISTEN C and the other examiner involved in the process.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HAYES, KRISTEN C | 1 | 68.5% | +21.5% |
| MCKINNON, LASHAWNDA T | 1 | 53.9% | +30.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18300078 | BIODEGRADABLE STRING TRIMMER LINE | MCKINNON, LASHAWNDA T | 141d overdue |
| 18462549 | Biodegradable Plant Container with Tear Strips | HAYES, KRISTEN C | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18300078 | BIODEGRADABLE STRING TRIMMER LINE | MCKINNON, LASHAWNDA T | 141d overdue |
| 18462549 | Biodegradable Plant Container with Tear Strips | HAYES, KRISTEN C | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3642 | 1 |
| 1789 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18462549 | Biodegradable Plant Container with Tear Strips | HAYES, KRISTEN C | 3642 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 07, 2023 |
| 18300078 | BIODEGRADABLE STRING TRIMMER LINE | MCKINNON, LASHAWNDA T | 1789 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 141d overdue | Pending | Apr 13, 2023 |
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