Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Magnum Icc US LLC manages a company patent portfolio currently focused on the Chemistry & Materials technology area. The portfolio shows 2 pending office actions distributed across 2 distinct examiners. This distribution indicates that each examiner is currently handling 1 pending matter for the company. Such a distribution allows the legal team to engage with multiple points of contact within the patent office simultaneously.
Prosecution activity is concentrated within 1 distinct art unit, which suggests a specific technical focus for the company's current intellectual property efforts. WATTS, JENNA A is identified as the busiest examiner for this portfolio, with 1 busiest examiner pending office action. The presence of 2 distinct examiners across only 1 distinct art unit provides the company with varied individual examiner perspectives within that specific unit. This concentration in 1 distinct art unit means the prosecution strategy can be tailored to the specific procedural nuances and prior art trends common to that particular division. By interacting with 2 distinct examiners, the company can evaluate how different individuals within the same art unit interpret their Chemistry & Materials claims.
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 | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WATTS, JENNA A | 1 | 48.6% | +53.9% |
| MERRIAM, ANDREW E | 1 | 26.8% | +32.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17913425 | FROZEN CONFECTION | MERRIAM, ANDREW E | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18718628 | CONCENTRATED PREMIX FOR A PLANT-BASED FROZEN CONFECTION | WATTS, JENNA A | — |
| 17913425 | FROZEN CONFECTION | MERRIAM, ANDREW E | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1791 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18718628 | CONCENTRATED PREMIX FOR A PLANT-BASED FROZEN CONFECTION | WATTS, JENNA A | 1791 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 11, 2024 |
| 17913425 | FROZEN CONFECTION | MERRIAM, ANDREW E | 1791 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 21, 2022 |
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