Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Lihme Protein Solutions Aps currently has 2 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are assigned to 2 distinct examiners and are being reviewed in 2 distinct art units. This distribution indicates that each pending matter is being handled by a different examiner in a separate technical group, rather than being clustered together. This suggests that the company's current chemistry-related filings are technically distinct from one another.
The busiest examiner, MERRIAM, ANDREW E, is responsible for 1 pending office action. Since there are 2 pending office actions and 2 distinct examiners, the workload is evenly divided between the involved officials. The involvement of 2 distinct art units for only 2 actions confirms that the prosecution is not concentrated in a single department. This spread across different examiners and art units may result in different prosecution timelines and outcomes for the company's pending applications.
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 |
|---|---|
| Double-patenting + other | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MERRIAM, ANDREW E | 1 | 28.3% | +33.9% |
| SHELLHAMMER, JAMES PAUL | 1 | 10.0% | +18.8% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18891379 | Integrated precipitation and membrane filtration processes for isolation of potato proteins | MERRIAM, ANDREW E | — |
| 18254552 | METHOD FOR SEPARATION OF PROTEINS FROM PHENOLIC COMPOUNDS | SHELLHAMMER, JAMES PAUL | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18891379 | Integrated precipitation and membrane filtration processes for isolation of potato proteins | MERRIAM, ANDREW E | — |
| 18254552 | METHOD FOR SEPARATION OF PROTEINS FROM PHENOLIC COMPOUNDS | SHELLHAMMER, JAMES PAUL | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1791 | 1 |
| 1793 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18891379 | Integrated precipitation and membrane filtration processes for isolation of potato proteins | MERRIAM, ANDREW E | 1791 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 20, 2024 |
| 18254552 | METHOD FOR SEPARATION OF PROTEINS FROM PHENOLIC COMPOUNDS | SHELLHAMMER, JAMES PAUL | 1793 | §103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 25, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialLihme Protein Solutions Aps has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Andrew E Merriam has the most, with 1 of Lihme Protein Solutions Aps's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
