Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Chemistry & Materials
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
NutriScience Innovations LLC is currently managing 2 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are split between 2 distinct examiners, ensuring that each pending matter is reviewed by a different individual. Furthermore, the portfolio is active across 2 distinct art units, which suggests a range of chemistry-related applications.
The busiest examiner for the company is KERSHAW, KELLY P, who is currently overseeing 1 busiest examiner pending action. Since there are 2 pending office actions in total, the workload is distributed, with KERSHAW, KELLY P handling 1 of the active cases. This distribution across 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units prevents a single examiner from dominating the company's prosecution landscape.
Practitioners should recognize that managing 2 distinct art units for 2 pending office actions requires a flexible approach to different examination standards. The 1 busiest examiner pending action assigned to KERSHAW, KELLY P is 1 of the active points of contact. This structure provides the company with independent paths for its Chemistry & Materials filings.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KERSHAW, KELLY P | 1 | 17.7% | +16.0% |
| CAIN, JENNIFER LYNN | 1 | 45.0% | +70.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18515601 | RHODIOLA CRENULATA COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS OF MAKING THE SAME | CAIN, JENNIFER LYNN | 22d overdue |
| 18409973 | GLYCEROPHOSPHATE COMPOSITIONS FOR IMPROVING FLAVOR IN CONSUMABLE PRODUCTS | KERSHAW, KELLY P | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18515601 | RHODIOLA CRENULATA COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS OF MAKING THE SAME | CAIN, JENNIFER LYNN | 22d overdue |
| 18409973 | GLYCEROPHOSPHATE COMPOSITIONS FOR IMPROVING FLAVOR IN CONSUMABLE PRODUCTS | KERSHAW, KELLY P | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1791 | 1 |
| 1655 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18409973 | GLYCEROPHOSPHATE COMPOSITIONS FOR IMPROVING FLAVOR IN CONSUMABLE PRODUCTS | KERSHAW, KELLY P | 1791 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 11, 2024 |
| 18515601 | RHODIOLA CRENULATA COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS OF MAKING THE SAME | CAIN, JENNIFER LYNN | 1655 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 22d overdue | Pending | Nov 21, 2023 |
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