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
Kilwins Chocolates Franchise Inc. possesses a company patent portfolio in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. There is 1 pending office action currently active for this portfolio. This figure indicates a minimal volume of outstanding procedural matters with the patent office.
The portfolio's prosecution is managed by 1 distinct examiner within 1 distinct art unit. Because the 1 pending office action is the only one in the portfolio, the company is dealing with a single point of contact for its current intellectual property needs. This allows for a streamlined communication strategy.
PENCE, JETHRO M is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, holding 1 busiest examiner pending office action. This examiner is responsible for the only active file in the company's current prosecution pipeline. The outcome of this 1 pending office action will be determined by the specific review standards of this examiner and the associated art unit.
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) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PENCE, JETHRO M | 1 | 79.0% | +25.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18183336 | WAFFLE CONE CHOCOLATE COATER AND COATING METHOD | PENCE, JETHRO M | 39d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18183336 | WAFFLE CONE CHOCOLATE COATER AND COATING METHOD | PENCE, JETHRO M | 39d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1717 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18183336 | WAFFLE CONE CHOCOLATE COATER AND COATING METHOD | PENCE, JETHRO M | 1717 | §102§112 | Final Rejection | 39d | Pending | Mar 14, 2023 |
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