Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Chemistry & Materials
4 pending office actions • 3 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Infinited Fiber Company OY is managing 4 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are assigned to 4 distinct examiners and are spread across 3 distinct art units. This shows that while each matter has a unique examiner, there is some concentration within the three art units. The involvement of 3 distinct art units for only 4 pending office actions indicates a diverse set of technical classifications within the Chemistry & Materials field.
Caroline Beha is the busiest examiner for the company, currently handling 1 pending office action. With 4 pending office actions and 4 distinct examiners, the workload is evenly distributed, resulting in a busiest examiner pending count of 1. This one-to-one ratio of examiners to pending actions means that no single examiner dominates the current prosecution landscape. Practitioners must manage four different examiner relationships across the 3 distinct art units. The fact that 4 distinct examiners are handling 4 pending office actions suggests that the company should be prepared for a variety of individual examiner styles while addressing the specific technical standards of the three different art units 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 | 3 (75%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (25%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MCKINNON, LASHAWNDA T | 1 | 53.9% | +30.2% |
| BEHA, CAROLINE | 1 | 57.5% | +23.8% |
| RUSSELL, STEPHEN MATTHEW | 1 | 63.6% | +34.4% |
| OLSON, ANDREA STEFFEL | 1 | 62.3% | -11.9% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18690288 | Method for the Treatment of a Fibrous Raw Material | RUSSELL, STEPHEN MATTHEW | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18718466 | Cellulosic textile fibre | MCKINNON, LASHAWNDA T | 41d |
| 18718491 | Cellulosic textile fibre | BEHA, CAROLINE | 56d |
| 18690288 | Method for the Treatment of a Fibrous Raw Material | RUSSELL, STEPHEN MATTHEW | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1789 | 1 |
| 1748 | 1 |
| 1693 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18718466 | Cellulosic textile fibre | MCKINNON, LASHAWNDA T | 1789 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 41d | Pending | Jun 11, 2024 |
| 18718491 | Cellulosic textile fibre | BEHA, CAROLINE | 1748 | §103 | Final Rejection | 56d | Pending | Jun 11, 2024 |
| 18690288 | Method for the Treatment of a Fibrous Raw Material | RUSSELL, STEPHEN MATTHEW | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 08, 2024 |
| 18270241 | Continuous Dissolution of a Cellulose Derivative | OLSON, ANDREA STEFFEL | 1693 | §103Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 29, 2023 |
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