Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Olam Americas LLC currently manages 2 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These cases are assigned to 2 distinct examiners, indicating that the company must address the specific requirements of two different individuals at the USPTO. The workload is further divided across 2 distinct art units, which suggests that the company's chemical technologies are being reviewed by different specialized groups.
The busiest examiner for the portfolio is PRAKASH, SUBBALAKSHMI, who is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending action. This accounts for a portion of the 2 pending office actions currently active. With 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units involved, the company cannot rely on a single prosecution approach. Instead, the legal team must develop unique arguments for each of the 2 pending office actions to satisfy the diverse technical and procedural standards of the assigned examiners. Monitoring the progress with PRAKASH, SUBBALAKSHMI will be essential for the company's success in the Chemistry & Materials field.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PRAKASH, SUBBALAKSHMI | 1 | 45.7% | +36.1% |
| LACHICA, ERICSON M | 1 | 30.0% | +35.4% |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18380032 | SOLUBLE CASCARA POWDER AND METHODS OF PREPARING SOLUBLE CASCARA POWDERS | PRAKASH, SUBBALAKSHMI | 44d overdue |
| 18208148 | Onion Food Product and Methods of Making and Use Thereof | LACHICA, ERICSON M | 57d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1793 | 1 |
| 1792 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18380032 | SOLUBLE CASCARA POWDER AND METHODS OF PREPARING SOLUBLE CASCARA POWDERS | PRAKASH, SUBBALAKSHMI | 1793 | §103 | Final Rejection | 44d overdue | Pending | Oct 13, 2023 |
| 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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