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
Minutri Inc. currently has 1 pending office action within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This single active application is assigned to a distinct examiner and is being reviewed in a distinct art unit. This reflects a very concentrated prosecution profile for the company's current patent efforts. The busiest examiner for the portfolio is MCNEIL, JENNIFER C, who is managing 1 busiest examiner pending action.
The fact that there is only 1 pending office action means that a distinct examiner is responsible for the entirety of the company's active workload. The involvement of the distinct art unit further indicates that the technology is situated within a specific technical niche of the Chemistry & Materials sector. This streamlined arrangement allows the company to focus its response strategy on the specific requirements of MCNEIL, JENNIFER C, rather than managing multiple examiners across different art units.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MCNEIL, JENNIFER C | 1 | 23.9% | +19.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18577275 | GEL COMPOSITIONS WITH HIGH THERMAL STABILITY AND METHODS OF MAKING THE SAME | MCNEIL, JENNIFER C | 27d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18577275 | GEL COMPOSITIONS WITH HIGH THERMAL STABILITY AND METHODS OF MAKING THE SAME | MCNEIL, JENNIFER C | 27d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1793 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18577275 | GEL COMPOSITIONS WITH HIGH THERMAL STABILITY AND METHODS OF MAKING THE SAME | MCNEIL, JENNIFER C | 1793 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 27d | Pending | Jan 08, 2024 |
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