Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
The Kerry Group Services International Limited portfolio currently operates within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. Prosecution activity is distributed across 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. This distribution indicates that the portfolio covers multiple technical sub-specialties within the broader engineering field.
The total volume of pending office actions for this entity is 2. Among the personnel involved, ECKARDT, ADAM MICHAEL is identified as the busiest examiner. This specific examiner is currently responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending office action.
For practitioners, the presence of 2 distinct art units suggests a need for a broader understanding of examiner behavior across different USPTO divisions. While the workload is split, the action handled by ECKARDT, ADAM MICHAEL is a component of the total 2 pending office actions. This balance requires monitoring separate channels of communication to resolve the current outstanding matters in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector. The use of 2 distinct examiners implies that the pending matters may follow different timelines.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 1 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ECKARDT, ADAM MICHAEL | 1 | 65.3% | +40.6% |
| 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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17707143 | NATURAL FINING AGENT FOR BEVERAGES | HAWKINS, AMANDA SALATA | 29d |
| 17737353 | NON-SILICONE VEGETABLE OIL BASED ANTI-FOAM COMPATIBLE WITH CROSS-FLOW FILTRATION | ECKARDT, ADAM MICHAEL | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17707143 | NATURAL FINING AGENT FOR BEVERAGES | HAWKINS, AMANDA SALATA | 29d |
| 17737353 | NON-SILICONE VEGETABLE OIL BASED ANTI-FOAM COMPATIBLE WITH CROSS-FLOW FILTRATION | ECKARDT, ADAM MICHAEL | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3761 | 1 |
| 1793 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17737353 | NON-SILICONE VEGETABLE OIL BASED ANTI-FOAM COMPATIBLE WITH CROSS-FLOW FILTRATION | ECKARDT, ADAM MICHAEL | 3761 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 05, 2022 |
| 17707143 | NATURAL FINING AGENT FOR BEVERAGES | HAWKINS, AMANDA SALATA | 1793 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 29d | Pending | Mar 29, 2022 |
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