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
Memtec LLC currently has 1 pending office action in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This prosecution activity is limited to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, reflecting a focused administrative footprint at the patent office. The presence of only 1 active action suggests a highly targeted prosecution phase for the company's current filings. This concentration within 1 art unit indicates that the technical subject matter is specialized and resides within a single department's jurisdiction.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is O'HERN, BRENT T, who is assigned 1 pending office action. With 1 distinct examiner handling the only pending matter, the company's immediate patent outcomes are tied to this single individual's review. Practitioners should focus on the specific requirements of this 1 art unit, as it currently governs the entirety of the company's active patent applications. The lack of examiner diversity means that the prosecution strategy cannot rely on comparing different examiner behaviors. Instead, the team must deeply analyze the historical preferences of this 1 official to navigate the pending office action successfully. This single-point-of-contact environment requires a precise and consistent technical argument to achieve allowance.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| O'HERN, BRENT T | 1 | 78.5% | +19.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18373541 | DAIRY PROCESSING SYSTEMS AND METHODS | O'HERN, BRENT T | 39d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1793 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18373541 | DAIRY PROCESSING SYSTEMS AND METHODS | O'HERN, BRENT T | 1793 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 39d | Pending | Sep 27, 2023 |
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