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
Paragon Flavors Inc. currently manages 1 pending office action in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This case is assigned to 1 distinct art unit, indicating a specific administrative home for the company's current patent claims. This focused technical review allows the applicant to concentrate its efforts on the standards of 1 specialized group within the patent office.
The busiest examiner for the portfolio is TRAN, LIEN THUY, who is responsible for the 1 pending office action. Because there is only 1 distinct examiner, the company's immediate legal trajectory is tied to the review of this single individual. The interaction with TRAN, LIEN THUY represents the entirety of the company's current active prosecution, making this relationship central to its patent strategy.
With 1 pending office action currently active, the company's immediate progress is dependent on the resolution of this 1 matter. The 1 distinct art unit involved provides a stable technical context for the examination of these chemistry innovations. Practitioners should focus on the specific requirements of the 1 assigned examiner to ensure the application moves efficiently through the prosecution process.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TRAN, LIEN THUY | 1 | 28.6% | +26.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18539368 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR FLAVOR ENCAPSULATION | TRAN, LIEN THUY | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18539368 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR FLAVOR ENCAPSULATION | TRAN, LIEN THUY | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1793 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18539368 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR FLAVOR ENCAPSULATION | TRAN, LIEN THUY | 1793 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 14, 2023 |
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