Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Olam Americas LLC currently manages 1 pending office action in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This single action is being processed in 1 distinct art unit, indicating a specific technical focus for the company's current patent activity. The prosecution is overseen by a distinct examiner, concentrating the entire active workload with one individual. This structure reflects a very focused and streamlined interaction with the patent office during this period.
LACHICA, ERICSON M is the busiest examiner for the company, holding the 1 pending office action. Because the company only has one pending office action, this examiner is the only one currently reviewing their applications. The focus on 1 distinct art unit and the distinct examiner simplifies the prosecution landscape to a single point of contact. There is no diversification of examiner risk, as the outcome of the entire active portfolio rests with this individual.
For a practitioner, the Chemistry & Materials focus requires a strategy tailored to the specific standards of the assigned art unit. Since LACHICA, ERICSON M manages the only active case, the applicant should prioritize understanding this examiner's past decisions and preferences. The resolution of the 1 pending office action will define the company's current patent trajectory. This focused environment allows for a dedicated legal effort on a single front rather than managing multiple disparate applications across the patent office.
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) | 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 | 29.8% | +35.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18208148 | Onion Food Product and Methods of Making and Use Thereof | LACHICA, ERICSON M | 57d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18208148 | Onion Food Product and Methods of Making and Use Thereof | LACHICA, ERICSON M | 57d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1792 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18208148 | Onion Food Product and Methods of Making and Use Thereof | LACHICA, ERICSON M | 1792 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 57d | Pending | Jun 09, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialOlam Americas LLC has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Ericson M Lachica has the most, with 1 of Olam Americas LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
