Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Innovafeed is managing 2 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are distributed between 2 distinct examiners within 1 distinct art unit, which suggests a concentration of technical focus despite the involvement of different reviewers. This structure allows for some consistency in the art unit's general approach while still requiring attention to the individual preferences of the 2 distinct examiners.
JOYNER, KEVIN is the busiest examiner for the company. This examiner is currently responsible for 1 pending office action. Since the total workload consists of 2 pending office actions, the responsibility is shared equally with another examiner. This even split means that no single examiner manages a majority of the company's current applications in this sector.
The presence of 1 distinct art unit for both pending matters indicates a unified technical classification for the portfolio. However, the 2 distinct examiners involved mean that practitioners must still account for two different sets of examination styles. The 1 pending office action assigned to JOYNER, KEVIN represents the typical workload per examiner for the company's active Chemistry & Materials cases.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| JOYNER, KEVIN | 1 | 68.3% | +23.6% |
| MCNEIL, JENNIFER C | 1 | 23.9% | +19.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17999482 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING LARVAE REARING SUBSTRATE | MCNEIL, JENNIFER C | 28d overdue |
| 18723673 | INSTALLATION FOR TREATING ARTHROPOD LARVAE, IN PARTICULAR INSECTS AND MORE SPECIFICALLY DIPTERA LARVAE | JOYNER, KEVIN | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17999482 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING LARVAE REARING SUBSTRATE | MCNEIL, JENNIFER C | 28d overdue |
| 18723673 | INSTALLATION FOR TREATING ARTHROPOD LARVAE, IN PARTICULAR INSECTS AND MORE SPECIFICALLY DIPTERA LARVAE | JOYNER, KEVIN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1793 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18723673 | INSTALLATION FOR TREATING ARTHROPOD LARVAE, IN PARTICULAR INSECTS AND MORE SPECIFICALLY DIPTERA LARVAE | JOYNER, KEVIN | 1793 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 24, 2024 |
| 17999482 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING LARVAE REARING SUBSTRATE | MCNEIL, JENNIFER C | 1793 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 28d overdue | Pending | Nov 21, 2022 |
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