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
Npic focuses its patent prosecution within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. The company currently has 1 pending office action that requires attention. This workload is managed by 1 distinct examiner, which indicates a concentrated prosecution path for the company's current filings. Additionally, the active matter is situated within 1 distinct art unit, ensuring that the technical review is conducted by a specialized group at the patent office.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is KOHLER, STEPHANIE A, who is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Since the total number of pending office actions is 1, this examiner is currently managing the entirety of the company's active prosecution. Practitioners should monitor the specific tendencies of KOHLER, STEPHANIE A to better understand the likely outcomes for this Chemistry & Materials filing. The alignment of 1 distinct examiner with 1 distinct art unit suggests that the company can maintain a singular focus during the response phase without the need to coordinate across different technical departments.
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 |
|---|---|
| §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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KOHLER, STEPHANIE A | 1 | 31.9% | +31.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18482147 | Use of Black Solider Fly Larvae as Palatant / Palatability Enhancer for use in edible pet products | KOHLER, STEPHANIE A | 59d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1791 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18482147 | Use of Black Solider Fly Larvae as Palatant / Palatability Enhancer for use in edible pet products | KOHLER, STEPHANIE A | 1791 | §103 | Final Rejection | 59d overdue | Pending | Oct 06, 2023 |
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