Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
8 pending office actions • 6 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 8 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Lifoam Industries LLC currently has 7 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are spread across 6 distinct examiners and 5 distinct art units, indicating that the company's patent applications are being reviewed by a varied group of USPTO personnel. This level of distribution across 5 distinct art units suggests that the company's research and development efforts in chemistry are quite broad.
KRYLOVA, IRINA is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, with 2 pending office actions under her review. The remaining actions are distributed among the other 6 distinct examiners. The presence of 5 distinct art units suggests that the portfolio covers a wide array of chemical or material science innovations, requiring coordination across multiple specialized units. With multiple examiners involved, the company faces a diverse set of perspectives, making the management of these 7 pending office actions a task that requires coordination across multiple specialized units, especially given the workload assigned to the busiest 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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 3 (38%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (12%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KRYLOVA, IRINA | 2 | 36.7% | +48.5% |
| KOLB, KATARZYNA I | 1 | 45.2% | +15.9% |
| VONCH, JEFFREY A | 1 | 52.1% | +43.8% |
| LAN, YAN | 1 | 63.1% | +21.9% |
| VAN SELL, NATHAN L | 1 | 54.5% | +24.8% |
| STEVENS, ALLAN D | 1 | 41.5% | +50.3% |
| GOLDEN, CHINESSA T | 1 | 57.9% | +4.8% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18477343 | PROTECTIVE TRAYS WITH HIGH DENSITY OF STORAGE | VONCH, JEFFREY A | — |
| 18476956 | EXPANDABLE POLYLACTIC ACID-BASED THERMAL AND PROTECTIVE PACKAGING HAVING ADVANCED LIVING HINGES AND METHODS THEREOF | LAN, YAN | — |
| 18356611 | EXPANDABLE POLYLACTIC ACID-BASED THERMAL AND PROTECTIVE PACKAGING AND METHODS THEREOF | GOLDEN, CHINESSA T | — |
| 18191422 | POLYLACTIC ACID-BASED CUSTOM PRODUCT PACKAGING AND ASSOCIATED METHODS | KRYLOVA, IRINA | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18356617 | ADVANCED MONO-MATERIAL EXPANDABLE POLYLACTIC ACID-BASED THERMAL AND PROTECTIVE PACKAGING AND METHODS THEREOF | STEVENS, ALLAN D | 20d |
| 18672642 | IMPACT PROPERTIES OF EXPANDABLE POLYLACTIC ACID MOLDED FOAM ARTICLES | KOLB, KATARZYNA I | — |
| 18477343 | PROTECTIVE TRAYS WITH HIGH DENSITY OF STORAGE | VONCH, JEFFREY A | — |
| 18476956 | EXPANDABLE POLYLACTIC ACID-BASED THERMAL AND PROTECTIVE PACKAGING HAVING ADVANCED LIVING HINGES AND METHODS THEREOF | LAN, YAN | — |
| 18477183 | POLYLACTIC ACID-BASED CUSTOM PRODUCT PACKAGING AND ASSOCIATED METHODS | VAN SELL, NATHAN L | — |
| 18303209 | POLYLACTIC ACID-BASED BEAD FOAM ARTICLES HAVING ULTRA-HIGHLY PLANAR PARTICLES | KRYLOVA, IRINA | — |
| 18191422 | POLYLACTIC ACID-BASED CUSTOM PRODUCT PACKAGING AND ASSOCIATED METHODS | KRYLOVA, IRINA | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1764 | 2 |
| 1781 | 1 |
| 1782 | 1 |
| 1783 | 1 |
| 3736 | 1 |
| 1788 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18672642 | IMPACT PROPERTIES OF EXPANDABLE POLYLACTIC ACID MOLDED FOAM ARTICLES | KOLB, KATARZYNA I | — | §103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 23, 2024 |
| 18477343 | PROTECTIVE TRAYS WITH HIGH DENSITY OF STORAGE | VONCH, JEFFREY A | 1781 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 28, 2023 |
| 18476956 | EXPANDABLE POLYLACTIC ACID-BASED THERMAL AND PROTECTIVE PACKAGING HAVING ADVANCED LIVING HINGES AND METHODS THEREOF | LAN, YAN | 1782 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 28, 2023 |
| 18477183 | POLYLACTIC ACID-BASED CUSTOM PRODUCT PACKAGING AND ASSOCIATED METHODS | VAN SELL, NATHAN L | 1783 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 28, 2023 |
| 18356617 | ADVANCED MONO-MATERIAL EXPANDABLE POLYLACTIC ACID-BASED THERMAL AND PROTECTIVE PACKAGING AND METHODS THEREOF | STEVENS, ALLAN D | 3736 | §103 | Final Rejection | 20d | Pending | Jul 21, 2023 |
| 18356611 | EXPANDABLE POLYLACTIC ACID-BASED THERMAL AND PROTECTIVE PACKAGING AND METHODS THEREOF | GOLDEN, CHINESSA T | 1788 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 21, 2023 |
| 18303209 | POLYLACTIC ACID-BASED BEAD FOAM ARTICLES HAVING ULTRA-HIGHLY PLANAR PARTICLES | KRYLOVA, IRINA | 1764 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 19, 2023 |
| 18191422 | POLYLACTIC ACID-BASED CUSTOM PRODUCT PACKAGING AND ASSOCIATED METHODS | KRYLOVA, IRINA | 1764 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 28, 2023 |
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