Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
1 pending office actions • 0 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Northeast Agricultural University is currently managing 1 pending office action. This matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, O'HERN, BRENT T. Within this portfolio, O'HERN, BRENT T serves as the busiest examiner with the pending office action. This indicates a focused prosecution effort for the university at this time.
The reliance on this examiner suggests that all active legal challenges are concentrated in a single examination path. This point of contact defines the current interaction between the university and the patent office. Practitioners should consider the specific procedural preferences of this examiner when managing the pending application.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18927173 | PHOSPHATES-FREE WATER HOLDING AGENT RICH IN AMINO ACIDS AND USE THEREOF IN EMULSIFIED MEAT PRODUCTS | O'HERN, BRENT T | — |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18927173 | PHOSPHATES-FREE WATER HOLDING AGENT RICH IN AMINO ACIDS AND USE THEREOF IN EMULSIFIED MEAT PRODUCTS | O'HERN, BRENT T | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 25, 2024 |
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