Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Chemistry & Materials
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
LANTMÄNNEN FUNCTIONAL FOODS AB holds a company patent portfolio in the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. There are currently 2 pending office actions associated with this portfolio. These actions are spread across 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units, showing a diversified prosecution landscape relative to the total volume.
FIEBIG, RUSSELL G is the busiest examiner for this portfolio. This examiner is handling 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Given that there are 2 pending office actions in total, the workload is split between the identified busiest examiner and the other of the 2 distinct examiners.
The involvement of 2 distinct art units indicates that the portfolio covers multiple sub-sectors within Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals. With 2 distinct examiners, the company must navigate different examination styles, even though the total volume of 2 pending office actions is low.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FIEBIG, RUSSELL G | 1 | 62.6% | +25.0% |
| KIM, BRYAN | 1 | 28.4% | +36.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17193092 | Consumable Product Comprising Malted Dehulled Oats | KIM, BRYAN | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17910175 | A Consumable Product Comprising Malted Cereals for Promoting Recovery at Physical Activity | FIEBIG, RUSSELL G | 35d overdue |
| 17193092 | Consumable Product Comprising Malted Dehulled Oats | KIM, BRYAN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1655 | 1 |
| 1792 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17910175 | A Consumable Product Comprising Malted Cereals for Promoting Recovery at Physical Activity | FIEBIG, RUSSELL G | 1655 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 35d overdue | Pending | Sep 08, 2022 |
| 17193092 | Consumable Product Comprising Malted Dehulled Oats | KIM, BRYAN | 1792 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 05, 2021 |
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