Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Chemistry & Materials • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
5 pending office actions • 4 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 7 patents granted in the last 365 days
Neogen Food Safety US Holdco Corporation currently has 4 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are distributed among 4 distinct examiners, which represents a high level of examiner diversity relative to the total number of pending matters. This distribution means that each pending action is being reviewed by a different individual, requiring a unique approach for each response.
The portfolio's activity spans 3 distinct art units, indicating that the company's chemical and material innovations are categorized into several different specialized groups at the USPTO. COUNTS, GARY W is identified as the busiest examiner, although he is currently handling only 1 pending office action. This indicates that no single examiner has a dominant influence over the current pending portfolio, as the workload is evenly split.
For practitioners, managing 4 pending office actions across 3 distinct art units and 4 different examiners requires a highly individualized prosecution strategy. Because each of the 4 distinct examiners holds only 1 pending action, there is no opportunity to apply 1 examiner's feedback across multiple cases. The diversity in art units also suggests that the subject matter may be subject to varying examination guidelines within the Chemistry & Materials field.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 only | 1 (20%) |
| §103 only | 3 (60%) |
| §112 only | 1 (20%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| COUNTS, GARY W | 1 | 58.9% | +29.5% |
| MISIASZEK, AMBER ALTSCHUL | 1 | 46.9% | +24.3% |
| BRAZIN, JACQUELINE | 1 | 66.0% | +52.7% |
| STRACHAN, KATE ELIZABETH | 1 | 48.2% | +29.2% |
| KWAK, DEAN P | 1 | 58.7% | +37.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17904860 | HYGIENE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, HYGIENE MANAGEMENT METHOD, AND HYGIENE MANAGEMENT PROGRAM | MISIASZEK, AMBER ALTSCHUL | 19d |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17904860 | HYGIENE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, HYGIENE MANAGEMENT METHOD, AND HYGIENE MANAGEMENT PROGRAM | MISIASZEK, AMBER ALTSCHUL | 19d |
| 18551159 | Compositions and Methods of Detecting Analytes | COUNTS, GARY W | — |
| 17758719 | CULTURE DEVICE CONTAINING OXYGEN SENSITIVE LUMINOPHORE AND METHODS OF USING | BRAZIN, JACQUELINE | — |
| 17634476 | ARTICLE USEABLE FOR SAMPLING SURFACES FOR MICROORGANISMS AND METHODS OF USE | STRACHAN, KATE ELIZABETH | — |
| 17610670 | DEVICE FOR GROWING MICROORGANISMS | KWAK, DEAN P | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1798 | 2 |
| 1678 | 1 |
| 3682 | 1 |
| 3781 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18551159 | Compositions and Methods of Detecting Analytes | COUNTS, GARY W | 1678 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 18, 2023 |
| 17904860 | HYGIENE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, HYGIENE MANAGEMENT METHOD, AND HYGIENE MANAGEMENT PROGRAM | MISIASZEK, AMBER ALTSCHUL | 3682 | §101 | Final Rejection | 19d | Pending | Aug 23, 2022 |
| 17758719 | CULTURE DEVICE CONTAINING OXYGEN SENSITIVE LUMINOPHORE AND METHODS OF USING | BRAZIN, JACQUELINE | 1798 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 13, 2022 |
| 17634476 | ARTICLE USEABLE FOR SAMPLING SURFACES FOR MICROORGANISMS AND METHODS OF USE | STRACHAN, KATE ELIZABETH | 3781 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 10, 2022 |
| 17610670 | DEVICE FOR GROWING MICROORGANISMS | KWAK, DEAN P | 1798 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 11, 2021 |
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