Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 04, 2026

Laporte Holding

1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days

Analysis

Laporte Holding currently has 1 pending office action in its patent portfolio. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, WALKER, KAITLAN NICHOLE. The portfolio data indicates 1 distinct art unit for this pending matter, showing a concentrated prosecution environment for the company's current intellectual property. This allows the company to focus its resources on a single technical conversation with the patent office.

WALKER, KAITLAN NICHOLE is the busiest examiner for the company, managing 1 pending office action. This represents the full extent of the company's pending office action activity. The presence of only one examiner and 1 distinct art unit suggests a singular focus for the company's current filings, requiring a strategy tailored to this specific examination context. Practitioners should note that such a focused portfolio requires a deep understanding of the specific art unit's precedents to successfully navigate the 1 pending office action.

Written from this page's own data; every figure is computed from USPTO records and verified before publication.

Portfolio Summary

1
Total Pending OAs
0
Non-Final OAs
1
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

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.

1
Overdue
0
Due this week
0
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
0
Due later

Case Difficulty Mix

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.

0
Hard (0%)
0
Medium (0%)
1
Easy (100%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§112 only1 (100%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
0
Mechanical / Eng
0% of docket
1
Business / Other
100% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

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.

10 h
Manual time on pending OAs
2 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
4 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.1 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
WALKER, KAITLAN NICHOLE 1 97.4% +3.4%

Quick Wins (1)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
35521385 Target WALKER, KAITLAN NICHOLE 162d overdue

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2951 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
35521385 Target WALKER, KAITLAN NICHOLE 2951 §112 Final Rejection 162d overdue Pending Dec 18, 2023

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