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
Leprino Performance Brands LLC shows 1 pending office action within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This activity is confined to a single distinct examiner and a sole distinct art unit. GERLA, STEPHANIE RAE is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, holding 1 pending office action.
The Chemistry & Materials portfolio is currently defined by this active prosecution. Because there is only a single distinct examiner involved, the prosecution experience is entirely localized to GERLA, STEPHANIE RAE. The presence of a sole distinct art unit indicates that the legal and technical review process is not spread across different sections of the office, focusing all current efforts on a single point of contact. This lack of examiner diversity means that the applicant's strategy must be tailored specifically to the examiner's past behavior and the art unit's specific guidelines. Practitioners should note that the entire active portfolio is subject to the same examination risks and timelines associated with this single examiner.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GERLA, STEPHANIE RAE | 1 | 16.7% | +33.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17238568 | PROTEIN-FORTIFIED BEVERAGES FOR ENHANCED ATHLETIC PERFORMANCE | GERLA, STEPHANIE RAE | 28d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17238568 | PROTEIN-FORTIFIED BEVERAGES FOR ENHANCED ATHLETIC PERFORMANCE | GERLA, STEPHANIE RAE | 28d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1791 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17238568 | PROTEIN-FORTIFIED BEVERAGES FOR ENHANCED ATHLETIC PERFORMANCE | GERLA, STEPHANIE RAE | 1791 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 28d | Pending | Apr 23, 2021 |
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