Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
5 pending office actions • 2 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 7 patents granted in the last 365 days
J-Oil Mills Inc. currently has 6 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These 6 actions are assigned to 6 distinct examiners, meaning that each pending matter is being reviewed by a different person. DREW E BECKER is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, though they are only responsible for 1 pending office action. This lack of examiner concentration requires the company to navigate 6 different sets of examiner preferences.
The portfolio is distributed across 3 distinct art units, which suggests that the chemistry and materials work covers several different technical sub-fields. With 6 pending office actions and 6 examiners, the prosecution workload is entirely fragmented. This structure implies that the company's legal strategy must be flexible enough to address the specific requirements of 3 different art units and 6 individual examiners simultaneously.
Because each of the 6 examiners handles only 1 pending office action, there is no opportunity to leverage a relationship with a single examiner across multiple cases. Practitioners must treat each of the 6 pending matters as a standalone negotiation. The 3 distinct art units provide some technical grouping, but the overall prosecution landscape remains highly individualized for each of the 6 pending actions.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 only | 1 (20%) |
| §103 only | 1 (20%) |
| §102 only | 1 (20%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (40%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BECKER, DREW E | 1 | 49.0% | +0.2% |
| SILVERMAN, JANICE Y | 1 | 36.7% | +53.8% |
| MUKHOPADHYAY, BHASKAR | 1 | 28.2% | +37.0% |
| ZILBERING, ASSAF | 1 | 35.2% | +27.8% |
| BAHL, SANGEETA | 1 | 20.7% | +19.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18694746 | AGENT FOR IMPARTING ANIMAL-FAT CONSISTENCY, OIL AND FAT COMPOSITION FOR IMPARTING ANIMAL-FAT CONSISTENCY, METHOD FOR IMPARTING ANIMAL-FAT CONSISTENCY, METHOD FOR PRODUCING AGENT FOR IMPARTING ANIMAL-FAT CONSISTENCY, AND FOOD PRODUCT TO WHICH ANIMAL-FAT CONSISTENCY IS IMPARTED | MUKHOPADHYAY, BHASKAR | 34d |
| 19020226 | METHOD FOR SHORTENING TIME REQUIRED FOR FRYING, AND METHOD FOR MINIMIZING OIL SPATTERING DURING FRYING | BECKER, DREW E | — |
| 17927945 | FRIED FOOD DISPOSAL TIME MANAGEMENT DEVICE, FRIED FOOD DISPOSAL TIME MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, AND FRIED FOOD DISPOSAL TIME MANAGEMENT METHOD | BAHL, SANGEETA | — |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18694746 | AGENT FOR IMPARTING ANIMAL-FAT CONSISTENCY, OIL AND FAT COMPOSITION FOR IMPARTING ANIMAL-FAT CONSISTENCY, METHOD FOR IMPARTING ANIMAL-FAT CONSISTENCY, METHOD FOR PRODUCING AGENT FOR IMPARTING ANIMAL-FAT CONSISTENCY, AND FOOD PRODUCT TO WHICH ANIMAL-FAT CONSISTENCY IS IMPARTED | MUKHOPADHYAY, BHASKAR | 34d |
| 18874397 | SOY PROTEIN-CONTAINING SHEET-LIKE COMPOSITION | SILVERMAN, JANICE Y | — |
| 18021482 | METHOD FOR REDUCING SULFUR-CONTAINING-COMPOUND CONTENT OF VOLATILE SUBSTANCES FROM FRIED FOOD | ZILBERING, ASSAF | — |
| 17927945 | FRIED FOOD DISPOSAL TIME MANAGEMENT DEVICE, FRIED FOOD DISPOSAL TIME MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, AND FRIED FOOD DISPOSAL TIME MANAGEMENT METHOD | BAHL, SANGEETA | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1792 | 2 |
| 3626 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19020226 | METHOD FOR SHORTENING TIME REQUIRED FOR FRYING, AND METHOD FOR MINIMIZING OIL SPATTERING DURING FRYING | BECKER, DREW E | — | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 14, 2025 |
| 18874397 | SOY PROTEIN-CONTAINING SHEET-LIKE COMPOSITION | SILVERMAN, JANICE Y | — | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 12, 2024 |
| 18694746 | AGENT FOR IMPARTING ANIMAL-FAT CONSISTENCY, OIL AND FAT COMPOSITION FOR IMPARTING ANIMAL-FAT CONSISTENCY, METHOD FOR IMPARTING ANIMAL-FAT CONSISTENCY, METHOD FOR PRODUCING AGENT FOR IMPARTING ANIMAL-FAT CONSISTENCY, AND FOOD PRODUCT TO WHICH ANIMAL-FAT CONSISTENCY IS IMPARTED | MUKHOPADHYAY, BHASKAR | 1792 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 34d | Pending | Mar 22, 2024 |
| 18021482 | METHOD FOR REDUCING SULFUR-CONTAINING-COMPOUND CONTENT OF VOLATILE SUBSTANCES FROM FRIED FOOD | ZILBERING, ASSAF | 1792 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 15, 2023 |
| 17927945 | FRIED FOOD DISPOSAL TIME MANAGEMENT DEVICE, FRIED FOOD DISPOSAL TIME MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, AND FRIED FOOD DISPOSAL TIME MANAGEMENT METHOD | BAHL, SANGEETA | 3626 | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 28, 2022 |
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