Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Local Bounti Operating Company LLC currently has 2 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These actions are assigned to 2 distinct examiners, meaning each case has a unique reviewer. The portfolio's current activity is contained within 1 distinct art unit, showing a focused technical focus at the patent office.
HAYES, KRISTEN C is the busiest examiner for the company, accounting for 1 busiest examiner pending action. Since there are multiple pending office actions and distinct examiners, the workload is balanced between the assigned staff. This distribution suggests that no single examiner has an outsized influence on the portfolio's overall progress.
The concentration of pending office actions within a distinct art unit indicates that the company's current filings are closely related in subject matter. However, the involvement of multiple examiners provides a variety of perspectives within that single art unit. This balance of technical focus and examiner diversity characterizes the current prosecution profile.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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) | 3 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HAYES, KRISTEN C | 1 | 68.5% | +21.5% |
| PETERSON, ALANNA KAY | 1 | 40.7% | +27.8% |
| DENNIS, KEVIN M | 1 | 36.5% | +48.4% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18484981 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SPECIALIZING LIGHT SPECTRA AND OPTIMIZING PHOTOSYNTHETIC CAPACITY TO ADJUST PLANT DIURNAL CYCLE | DENNIS, KEVIN M | 3d overdue |
| 18399815 | MODULAR PLANT PLUG INSERTS | PETERSON, ALANNA KAY | 28d |
| 19263892 | ROOT GROWTH OPTIMIZATION METHOD | HAYES, KRISTEN C | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18484981 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SPECIALIZING LIGHT SPECTRA AND OPTIMIZING PHOTOSYNTHETIC CAPACITY TO ADJUST PLANT DIURNAL CYCLE | DENNIS, KEVIN M | 3d overdue |
| 18399815 | MODULAR PLANT PLUG INSERTS | PETERSON, ALANNA KAY | 28d |
| 19263892 | ROOT GROWTH OPTIMIZATION METHOD | HAYES, KRISTEN C | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3642 | 2 |
| 3647 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19263892 | ROOT GROWTH OPTIMIZATION METHOD | HAYES, KRISTEN C | 3642 | §102§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 09, 2025 |
| 18399815 | MODULAR PLANT PLUG INSERTS | PETERSON, ALANNA KAY | 3642 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 28d | Pending | Dec 29, 2023 |
| 18484981 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SPECIALIZING LIGHT SPECTRA AND OPTIMIZING PHOTOSYNTHETIC CAPACITY TO ADJUST PLANT DIURNAL CYCLE | DENNIS, KEVIN M | 3647 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 3d overdue | Pending | Oct 11, 2023 |
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