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 • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Ocean Spray Cranberries Inc. has a patent portfolio in the Chemistry & Materials technology area with 1 pending office action currently under review. The prosecution is handled by 1 distinct examiner within 1 distinct art unit, indicating a focused and streamlined approach to this specific filing. This lack of examiner diversity suggests that the current intellectual property strategy is concentrated on 1 technical path or a specific set of chemical formulations.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is LACHICA, ERICSON M, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. As the sole examiner currently active on the portfolio, LACHICA, ERICSON M's specific examination style and history in Chemistry & Materials will be the primary influence on the prosecution timeline. With only 1 distinct art unit to manage, the legal team can dedicate its efforts to addressing the specific concerns of this examiner and the single pending matter. This focused environment in the Chemistry & Materials area allows for a more direct dialogue with the USPTO to resolve any outstanding technical rejections.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LACHICA, ERICSON M | 1 | 30.0% | +35.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17842647 | Rare Sugars in Food and Beverage Products | LACHICA, ERICSON M | 3d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1792 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17842647 | Rare Sugars in Food and Beverage Products | LACHICA, ERICSON M | 1792 | §103 | Final Rejection | 3d overdue | Pending | Jun 16, 2022 |
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