Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
International Dehydrated Foods Inc. currently manages 1 pending office action within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This active matter is assigned to a distinct examiner working within 1 distinct art unit. The concentration of the portfolio shows the company's current patent prosecution focus. Prosecution within Chemistry & Materials involves the specific examination standards of that field.
GERLA, STEPHANIE RAE is the busiest examiner for this portfolio. This individual is responsible for the busiest examiner pending office action. This examiner handles the workload of the company's current prosecution in this technology area. The examiner's role is a feature of the current portfolio status.
The presence of a distinct art unit indicates that the technical reviews occur within a specific administrative group. Practitioners can focus their strategy on the requirements of the examiner assigned. This profile reflects a portfolio with a point of interaction with the patent office at this time. The alignment of the pending matter within this specific technology area defines the current interaction with the patent office.
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 | 1 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GERLA, STEPHANIE RAE | 1 | 16.7% | +33.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16071828 | MEAT SNACKS, JERKY, JERKY SAUSAGE AND METHODS OF THEIR MAKING AND USE | GERLA, STEPHANIE RAE | — |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16071828 | MEAT SNACKS, JERKY, JERKY SAUSAGE AND METHODS OF THEIR MAKING AND USE | GERLA, STEPHANIE RAE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1791 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16071828 | MEAT SNACKS, JERKY, JERKY SAUSAGE AND METHODS OF THEIR MAKING AND USE | GERLA, STEPHANIE RAE | 1791 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 20, 2018 |
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