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
Nisshin Seifun Welna Inc. maintains a company patent portfolio in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. There are currently 2 pending office actions for the company. These actions are being handled by 2 distinct examiners, meaning each examiner is responsible for one pending matter.
The portfolio is active within 1 distinct art unit. This suggests that while different examiners are involved, the technology remains within a single specialized group at the patent office. LACHICA, ERICSON M is the busiest examiner, with 1 busiest examiner pending office action.
For practitioners, having 2 pending office actions in 1 art unit but under 2 different examiners requires monitoring for consistency in examination. The focus on Chemistry & Materials is consistent across both pending matters. The workload is evenly split between the 2 distinct examiners. This arrangement provides the company with two separate perspectives from the same art unit, which can be beneficial for understanding the examination standards applied to their chemical innovations.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LACHICA, ERICSON M | 1 | 30.0% | +35.4% |
| KOHLER, STEPHANIE A | 1 | 31.9% | +31.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18728975 | GROOVED NOODLES | LACHICA, ERICSON M | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18728975 | GROOVED NOODLES | LACHICA, ERICSON M | — |
| 18554099 | COATING COMPOSITION FOR FRIED FOOD | KOHLER, STEPHANIE A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1791 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18728975 | GROOVED NOODLES | LACHICA, ERICSON M | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 15, 2024 |
| 18554099 | COATING COMPOSITION FOR FRIED FOOD | KOHLER, STEPHANIE A | 1791 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 05, 2023 |
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