Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Chemistry & Materials
7 pending office actions • 3 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Herbstreith & Fox GmbH & Co. KG Pektin-Fabriken has 1 pending office action currently active in the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. This matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and is being processed within 1 distinct art unit. This concentration suggests that the company's current innovation is being evaluated within a specific technical niche of the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals field, rather than across multiple disciplines.
The busiest examiner, ALAM, AYAAN A, is responsible for the 1 busiest examiner pending action. Since there is 1 distinct examiner involved, the company's current prosecution efforts are focused on the review of ALAM, AYAAN A. The alignment of 1 pending office action with 1 distinct art unit means that the examination will be governed by the specific standards of that single unit.
Practitioners should focus on the specific technical requirements of ALAM, AYAAN A to effectively resolve the 1 pending office action. The presence of 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit simplifies the management of the portfolio by providing a single point of contact. This focused approach allows for an efficient prosecution process for the 1 busiest examiner pending action currently on the docket.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 2 (29%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 4 (57%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (14%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KRISHNAN, GANAPATHY | 3 | 52.8% | +1.1% |
| LE, EMILY M | 2 | 17.6% | -3.1% |
| FRONDA, CHRISTIAN L | 1 | 82.4% | +14.2% |
| JACOBSON, MICHELE LYNN | 1 | 28.0% | +32.9% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18247726 | LOW METHOXYL, HIGHLY CALCIUM-REACTIVE PECTIN AND PROCESS FOR ITS PREPARATION | FRONDA, CHRISTIAN L | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18040414 | PECTIN-CONTAINING PLANT FIBER COMPOSITION FOR PLANT-BASED ICE CREAM | JACOBSON, MICHELE LYNN | 15d |
| 18009133 | USE OF AN ACTIVATABLE PECTIN-CONTAINING APPLE FIBER FOR PRODUCING PRODUCTS | LE, EMILY M | — |
| 18009301 | USE OF AN ACTIVATABLE PECTIN-CONTAINING CITRUS FIBER FOR PRODUCING PRODUCTS | 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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18040414 | PECTIN-CONTAINING PLANT FIBER COMPOSITION FOR PLANT-BASED ICE CREAM | JACOBSON, MICHELE LYNN | 15d |
| 18247726 | LOW METHOXYL, HIGHLY CALCIUM-REACTIVE PECTIN AND PROCESS FOR ITS PREPARATION | FRONDA, CHRISTIAN L | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1693 | 3 |
| 1793 | 3 |
| 1652 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18247726 | LOW METHOXYL, HIGHLY CALCIUM-REACTIVE PECTIN AND PROCESS FOR ITS PREPARATION | FRONDA, CHRISTIAN L | 1652 | §102§103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 03, 2023 |
| 18040429 | USE OF AN ACTIVATABLE, DE-ESTERIFIED, PECTIN-CONVERTED FRUIT FIBER FOR THE MANUFACTURING OF PRODUCTS | KRISHNAN, GANAPATHY | 1693 | §103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 03, 2023 |
| 18040414 | PECTIN-CONTAINING PLANT FIBER COMPOSITION FOR PLANT-BASED ICE CREAM | JACOBSON, MICHELE LYNN | 1793 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 15d | Pending | Feb 02, 2023 |
| 18040421 | USE OF AN ACTIVATABLE, DE-ESTERIFIED FRUIT FIBER FOR THE MANUFACTURING OF PRODUCTS | KRISHNAN, GANAPATHY | 1693 | §103DP | Non-Final OA | 84d | Pending | Feb 02, 2023 |
| 18009133 | USE OF AN ACTIVATABLE PECTIN-CONTAINING APPLE FIBER FOR PRODUCING PRODUCTS | LE, EMILY M | 1793 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 08, 2022 |
| 18009301 | USE OF AN ACTIVATABLE PECTIN-CONTAINING CITRUS FIBER FOR PRODUCING PRODUCTS | LE, EMILY M | 1793 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 08, 2022 |
| 18009296 | USE OF AN ACTIVATED PECTIN-CONTAINING CITRUS FIBER FOR PRODUCING PRODUCTS | KRISHNAN, GANAPATHY | 1693 | §103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 08, 2022 |
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