Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
15 pending office actions • 6 art units • 13 examiners • 0 of 15 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 10 patents granted in the last 365 days
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 6 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 6 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 only | 1 (7%) |
| §103 only | 5 (33%) |
| §102 only | 1 (7%) |
| §112 only | 1 (7%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 2 (13%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 5 (33%) |
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 | 2 | 25.0% | +32.1% |
| DUBOIS, PHILIP A | 2 | 25.0% | +25.0% |
| WATTS, JENNA A | 1 | 48.5% | +53.7% |
| CHO, DAVID H | 1 | 37.5% | +73.5% |
| LI, CHANGQING | 1 | 29.6% | +33.1% |
| HOFFMAN, SUSAN COE | 1 | 54.2% | +25.6% |
| BEKKER, KELLY JO | 1 | 16.6% | +35.2% |
| BERKE-SCHLESSEL, DAVID W | 1 | 66.6% | +31.9% |
| DICKENS, AMELIA NICOLE | 1 | 47.2% | +22.4% |
| GOUGH, TIFFANY MAUREEN | 1 | 31.4% | +46.9% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18018672 | SOLID FOOD AND SOLID MILK | DUBOIS, PHILIP A | 134d overdue |
| 18564842 | CACAO FRUIT GROUND PRODUCT AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE SAME | BEKKER, KELLY JO | 8d overdue |
| 17789045 | LACTIC ACID BACTERIUM FERMENTATION PROMOTER | GOUGH, TIFFANY MAUREEN | 6d |
| 18286680 | METHOD FOR DETECTING EXOPOLYSACCHARIDE | BERKE-SCHLESSEL, DAVID W | 8d |
| 18689569 | LACTIC ACID BACTERIUM, LACTIC ACID BACTERIUM STARTER, FERMENTED MILK, METHOD FOR PRODUCING FERMENTED MILK, AND METHOD FOR SCREENING LACTIC ACID BACTERIUM | LI, CHANGQING | — |
| 18578588 | COMPOSITION FOR INDUCING AUTOPHAGY | HOFFMAN, SUSAN COE | — |
| 18564313 | PUFFED FOOD | MERRIAM, ANDREW E | — |
| 18018673 | SOLID FOOD AND SOLID MILK | DUBOIS, PHILIP A | — |
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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18018672 | SOLID FOOD AND SOLID MILK | DUBOIS, PHILIP A | 134d overdue |
| 18564842 | CACAO FRUIT GROUND PRODUCT AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE SAME | BEKKER, KELLY JO | 8d overdue |
| 17789045 | LACTIC ACID BACTERIUM FERMENTATION PROMOTER | GOUGH, TIFFANY MAUREEN | 6d |
| 18286680 | METHOD FOR DETECTING EXOPOLYSACCHARIDE | BERKE-SCHLESSEL, DAVID W | 8d |
| 18841798 | CHEESE-LIKE FOOD AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME | WATTS, JENNA A | — |
| 18720268 | COMPOSITIONS FOR PREVENTING OR FOR REDUCING RISK OF DEVELOPING SECONDARY INFECTIOUS DISEASES | CHO, DAVID H | — |
| 18689569 | LACTIC ACID BACTERIUM, LACTIC ACID BACTERIUM STARTER, FERMENTED MILK, METHOD FOR PRODUCING FERMENTED MILK, AND METHOD FOR SCREENING LACTIC ACID BACTERIUM | LI, CHANGQING | — |
| 18578588 | COMPOSITION FOR INDUCING AUTOPHAGY | HOFFMAN, SUSAN COE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1791 | 7 |
| 1651 | 2 |
| 1655 | 1 |
| 1792 | 1 |
| 1645 | 1 |
| 1793 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18841798 | CHEESE-LIKE FOOD AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME | WATTS, JENNA A | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 27, 2024 |
| 18720268 | COMPOSITIONS FOR PREVENTING OR FOR REDUCING RISK OF DEVELOPING SECONDARY INFECTIOUS DISEASES | CHO, DAVID H | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 14, 2024 |
| 18689569 | LACTIC ACID BACTERIUM, LACTIC ACID BACTERIUM STARTER, FERMENTED MILK, METHOD FOR PRODUCING FERMENTED MILK, AND METHOD FOR SCREENING LACTIC ACID BACTERIUM | LI, CHANGQING | 1791 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 06, 2024 |
| 18578588 | COMPOSITION FOR INDUCING AUTOPHAGY | HOFFMAN, SUSAN COE | 1655 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 11, 2024 |
| 18564842 | CACAO FRUIT GROUND PRODUCT AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE SAME | BEKKER, KELLY JO | 1792 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 8d overdue | Pending | Nov 28, 2023 |
| 18564313 | PUFFED FOOD | MERRIAM, ANDREW E | 1791 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 27, 2023 |
| 18286680 | METHOD FOR DETECTING EXOPOLYSACCHARIDE | BERKE-SCHLESSEL, DAVID W | 1651 | §101 | Final Rejection | 8d | Pending | Oct 12, 2023 |
| 18266167 | COMPOSITION COMPRISING BACTERIUM OF THE GENUS ACIDIPROPIONIBACTERIUM OR PROCESSED PRODUCT THEREOF | DICKENS, AMELIA NICOLE | 1645 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 08, 2023 |
| 18018673 | SOLID FOOD AND SOLID MILK | DUBOIS, PHILIP A | 1791 | §102DP | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 30, 2023 |
| 18018672 | SOLID FOOD AND SOLID MILK | DUBOIS, PHILIP A | 1791 | §102DP | Final Rejection | 134d overdue | Pending | Jan 30, 2023 |
| 17928983 | OILY SOLID FOOD | MERRIAM, ANDREW E | 1791 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 01, 2022 |
| 17789045 | LACTIC ACID BACTERIUM FERMENTATION PROMOTER | GOUGH, TIFFANY MAUREEN | 1651 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 6d | Pending | Jun 24, 2022 |
| 17426908 | CACAO PULP JUICE DRIED POWDER, FOOD PRODUCT IN WHICH SAME IS BLENDED, AND METHODS FOR PRODUCING THESE | SWEENEY, MAURA ELIZABETH | 1791 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 29, 2021 |
| 17288175 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING HIGH-PROTEIN MILK RAW MATERIAL | MCCLAIN, TYNESHA L. | 1793 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 202d overdue | Pending | Apr 23, 2021 |
| 17186587 | Method of improving quality of sleep of an organism, a method of improving overall health of an organism, and a method of raising vitality of an organism | GERLA, STEPHANIE RAE | 1791 | §103 | Final Rejection | 36d overdue | Pending | Feb 26, 2021 |
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