Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Nihon Shokuhin Kako Co. Ltd. maintains a patent portfolio focused on the Chemistry & Materials technology area. The company is currently addressing 2 pending office actions, which indicates the level of active engagement with the patent office. These actions are distributed across 2 distinct examiners, suggesting that the portfolio's current workload is split between different individual reviewers.
Despite the involvement of different examiners, the prosecution is contained within 1 distinct art unit. This concentration within a specific art unit implies that while different individuals are reviewing the applications, the technical subject matter remains within a unified administrative category. This allows for a consistent technical baseline even as different examiners apply their specific interpretations to the Chemistry & Materials claims.
The busiest examiner for the portfolio is MCNEIL, JENNIFER C, who is currently managing 1 pending office action. Since the number of pending actions is 2, this examiner handles a portion of the company's active prosecution workload. The remaining pending action is assigned to the other distinct examiner, creating a distribution of the current procedural tasks across the identified personnel within the 1 distinct art unit.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (50%) |
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% |
| TRAN, LIEN THUY | 1 | 28.6% | +26.5% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17923082 | PROCESSED EDIBLE POWDER, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING PROCESSED EDIBLE POWDER, FRIED FOOD COATING, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING FRIED FOOD COATING, AND METHOD FOR IMPROVING TEXTURE OF FRIED FOOD COATING | TRAN, LIEN THUY | 97d overdue |
| 18027178 | OIL-OR-FAT PROCESSED STARCH HAVING EXCEPTIONAL DISPERSIBILITY, METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME, AND APPLICATION OF SAME | MCNEIL, JENNIFER C | 11d overdue |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17923082 | PROCESSED EDIBLE POWDER, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING PROCESSED EDIBLE POWDER, FRIED FOOD COATING, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING FRIED FOOD COATING, AND METHOD FOR IMPROVING TEXTURE OF FRIED FOOD COATING | TRAN, LIEN THUY | 97d overdue |
| 18027178 | OIL-OR-FAT PROCESSED STARCH HAVING EXCEPTIONAL DISPERSIBILITY, METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME, AND APPLICATION OF SAME | MCNEIL, JENNIFER C | 11d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1793 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18027178 | OIL-OR-FAT PROCESSED STARCH HAVING EXCEPTIONAL DISPERSIBILITY, METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME, AND APPLICATION OF SAME | MCNEIL, JENNIFER C | 1793 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 11d overdue | Pending | Mar 20, 2023 |
| 17923082 | PROCESSED EDIBLE POWDER, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING PROCESSED EDIBLE POWDER, FRIED FOOD COATING, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING FRIED FOOD COATING, AND METHOD FOR IMPROVING TEXTURE OF FRIED FOOD COATING | TRAN, LIEN THUY | 1793 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 97d overdue | Pending | Nov 03, 2022 |
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