Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
10 pending office actions • 5 art units • 9 examiners • 0 of 10 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 10 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 10 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 | 8 (80%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (10%) |
| No statute on record | 1 (10%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MERCHLINSKY, JOSEPH CULLEN | 2 | 8.3% | -9.1% |
| FRONDA, CHRISTIAN L | 1 | 82.4% | +14.1% |
| GERLA, STEPHANIE RAE | 1 | 11.1% | +22.5% |
| JACOBSON, MICHELE LYNN | 1 | 25.5% | +31.8% |
| SMITH, CHAIM A | 1 | 40.1% | +52.8% |
| GLIMM, CARRIE LYNN STOFFEL | 1 | 24.3% | +16.4% |
| GOUGH, TIFFANY MAUREEN | 1 | 31.2% | +48.3% |
| LIU, DEBORAH YANG-HAO | 1 | 2.6% | -3.2% |
| BERHANE, SELAM | 1 | 61.3% | +55.5% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17764713 | COMPOSITION PACKED IN CONTAINER, USE THEREOF, AND PROCESSED FOOD PACKED IN CONTAINER | LIU, DEBORAH YANG-HAO | 84d overdue |
| 18277418 | SOY SAUCE AND SOY SAUCE-LIKE SEASONING WITH EXCELLENT AROMA, METHOD FOR SUPPRESSING HEAT-DETERIORATED SMELL, CONTAINER-PACKED COMPOSITION WITH SUPPRESSED HEAT-DETERIORATED SMELL AND COMPOSITION FOR SUPPRESSING HEAT-DETERIORATED SMELL | MERCHLINSKY, JOSEPH CULLEN | 20d |
| 17905506 | CONTAINER-PACKED COMPOSITION AND METHOD FOR IMPROVING FLAVOR OF CITRUS JUICE | GLIMM, CARRIE LYNN STOFFEL | 34d |
| 18691627 | SOY SAUCE RICH IN ORGANIC ACID | MERCHLINSKY, JOSEPH CULLEN | 40d |
| 18019872 | Food/Beverage Article | GERLA, STEPHANIE RAE | 40d |
| 17911562 | Fermented Soy Beverage Concentrate and Method for Producing the Same | JACOBSON, MICHELE LYNN | 63d |
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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17929701 | LIQUID CONCENTRATE FOR SEASONING, WOOD PIECE USABLE AS FERMENTATION INDEX FOR SEASONING, KIT FOR MANUFACTURING SEASONING, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SEASONING, SEASONING, AND THICKENED SEASONING | SMITH, CHAIM A | 49d overdue |
| 18246060 | METHOD FOR IMPROVING THE STABILITY OF A COMPOSITION COMPRISING A FLAVIN-DEPENDENT LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE | FRONDA, CHRISTIAN L | 16d overdue |
| 17257745 | LUCIFERASE VARIANT | BERHANE, SELAM | 10d overdue |
| 17905506 | CONTAINER-PACKED COMPOSITION AND METHOD FOR IMPROVING FLAVOR OF CITRUS JUICE | GLIMM, CARRIE LYNN STOFFEL | 34d |
| 18019872 | Food/Beverage Article | GERLA, STEPHANIE RAE | 40d |
| 17837142 | QUANTIFICATION METHOD OF VITAMIN D DERIVATIVE, ENZYME FOR QUANTIFICATION, COMPOSITION FOR QUANTIFICATION, KIT FOR QUANTIFICATION, ELECTRODE, SENSOR CHIP, AND SENSOR | GOUGH, TIFFANY MAUREEN | 62d |
| 17911562 | Fermented Soy Beverage Concentrate and Method for Producing the Same | JACOBSON, MICHELE LYNN | 63d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1791 | 5 |
| 1793 | 2 |
| 1652 | 1 |
| 1651 | 1 |
| 1675 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18691627 | SOY SAUCE RICH IN ORGANIC ACID | MERCHLINSKY, JOSEPH CULLEN | 1791 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 40d | Pending | Mar 13, 2024 |
| 18277418 | SOY SAUCE AND SOY SAUCE-LIKE SEASONING WITH EXCELLENT AROMA, METHOD FOR SUPPRESSING HEAT-DETERIORATED SMELL, CONTAINER-PACKED COMPOSITION WITH SUPPRESSED HEAT-DETERIORATED SMELL AND COMPOSITION FOR SUPPRESSING HEAT-DETERIORATED SMELL | MERCHLINSKY, JOSEPH CULLEN | 1791 | §103 | Final Rejection | 20d | Pending | Aug 16, 2023 |
| 18246060 | METHOD FOR IMPROVING THE STABILITY OF A COMPOSITION COMPRISING A FLAVIN-DEPENDENT LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE | FRONDA, CHRISTIAN L | 1652 | Other | Non-Final OA | 16d overdue | Pending | Mar 21, 2023 |
| 18019872 | Food/Beverage Article | GERLA, STEPHANIE RAE | 1791 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 40d | Pending | Feb 06, 2023 |
| 17911562 | Fermented Soy Beverage Concentrate and Method for Producing the Same | JACOBSON, MICHELE LYNN | 1793 | §103 | Final Rejection | 63d | Pending | Sep 14, 2022 |
| 17929701 | LIQUID CONCENTRATE FOR SEASONING, WOOD PIECE USABLE AS FERMENTATION INDEX FOR SEASONING, KIT FOR MANUFACTURING SEASONING, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SEASONING, SEASONING, AND THICKENED SEASONING | SMITH, CHAIM A | 1791 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 49d overdue | Pending | Sep 04, 2022 |
| 17905506 | CONTAINER-PACKED COMPOSITION AND METHOD FOR IMPROVING FLAVOR OF CITRUS JUICE | GLIMM, CARRIE LYNN STOFFEL | 1793 | §103 | Final Rejection | 34d | Pending | Sep 02, 2022 |
| 17837142 | QUANTIFICATION METHOD OF VITAMIN D DERIVATIVE, ENZYME FOR QUANTIFICATION, COMPOSITION FOR QUANTIFICATION, KIT FOR QUANTIFICATION, ELECTRODE, SENSOR CHIP, AND SENSOR | GOUGH, TIFFANY MAUREEN | 1651 | DPOther | Final Rejection | 62d | Pending | Jun 10, 2022 |
| 17764713 | COMPOSITION PACKED IN CONTAINER, USE THEREOF, AND PROCESSED FOOD PACKED IN CONTAINER | LIU, DEBORAH YANG-HAO | 1791 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 84d overdue | Pending | Mar 29, 2022 |
| 17257745 | LUCIFERASE VARIANT | BERHANE, SELAM | 1675 | §103 | Final Rejection | 10d overdue | Pending | Jan 04, 2021 |
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