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 • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Megmilk Snow Brand Co. Ltd. has 1 pending office action in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This single matter is assigned to a distinct examiner and a distinct art unit. The focus of the current prosecution activity suggests a concentrated examination environment for the company's pending intellectual property. With this volume of pending office actions, the company's immediate legal focus is limited to a single point of contact within the USPTO, which simplifies the tracking of prosecution milestones but increases the impact of a single examiner's perspective.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is MENON, KRISHNAN S, who is currently handling 1 pending office action. Because there is only a single pending matter in total, this examiner manages the entirety of the company's active prosecution before the office. This creates a direct relationship between the company and the assigned art unit. The concentration in this distinct art unit within the Chemistry & Materials field indicates that the subject matter is specific to the expertise of that particular examination group, requiring a strategy tailored to this individual's review.
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 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MENON, KRISHNAN S | 1 | 59.7% | +11.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18284569 | PRODUCTION METHOD FOR FOOD COMPOSITION | MENON, KRISHNAN S | 14d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1777 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18284569 | PRODUCTION METHOD FOR FOOD COMPOSITION | MENON, KRISHNAN S | 1777 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 14d | Pending | Sep 28, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialMegmilk Snow Brand Co. Ltd. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Krishnan S Menon has the most, with 1 of Megmilk Snow Brand Co. Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.