Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Ims Trading LLC has 3 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are distributed across 3 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units. AXTELL, ASHLEY is the busiest examiner, managing 1 pending action. This distribution indicates that the company's chemical filings are spread across multiple administrative groups at the USPTO.
The distribution of 3 pending office actions across 3 distinct art units indicates a diverse technical footprint for the company's chemical filings. Each of the 3 distinct examiners is responsible for 1 pending action, including the busiest examiner. This structure suggests that the company's prosecution efforts are spread across several different administrative sections of the USPTO. Practitioners should be prepared to manage 3 different examiner styles and 3 different art unit cultures. Because the 3 pending office actions are not concentrated in a single group, the prosecution strategy must be tailored to the specific requirements of each 1 distinct art unit involved.
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 (67%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| AXTELL, ASHLEY | 1 | 13.2% | +25.7% |
| GERLA, STEPHANIE RAE | 1 | 16.7% | +33.0% |
| HAWKINS, AMANDA SALATA | 1 | 12.0% | +45.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17814101 | CORN COB PET CHEW | GERLA, STEPHANIE RAE | 36d overdue |
| 18396853 | PET CHEW ARTICLE | AXTELL, ASHLEY | 61d |
| 17664054 | RAWHIDE ANIMAL CHEW INCLUDING MICROPORES FILLED WITH CHITOSAN | HAWKINS, AMANDA SALATA | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17814101 | CORN COB PET CHEW | GERLA, STEPHANIE RAE | 36d overdue |
| 18396853 | PET CHEW ARTICLE | AXTELL, ASHLEY | 61d |
| 17664054 | RAWHIDE ANIMAL CHEW INCLUDING MICROPORES FILLED WITH CHITOSAN | HAWKINS, AMANDA SALATA | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1792 | 1 |
| 1791 | 1 |
| 1793 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18396853 | PET CHEW ARTICLE | AXTELL, ASHLEY | 1792 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 61d | Pending | Dec 27, 2023 |
| 17814101 | CORN COB PET CHEW | GERLA, STEPHANIE RAE | 1791 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 36d overdue | Pending | Jul 21, 2022 |
| 17664054 | RAWHIDE ANIMAL CHEW INCLUDING MICROPORES FILLED WITH CHITOSAN | HAWKINS, AMANDA SALATA | 1793 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 19, 2022 |
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