Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Plantopia Ltd. currently has 1 pending office action within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This matter is being handled by 1 distinct examiner, SHELLHAMMER, JAMES PAUL, who is the busiest examiner for the portfolio. The prosecution is occurring within a distinct art unit, which suggests a specific application of the company's technology within the patent office's classification system. This pending office action constitutes the full extent of the company's current active matters.
The company's current patent office activity is concentrated, as there is a pending office action. This means the immediate success of the portfolio in the Chemistry & Materials area depends on the specific requirements of SHELLHAMMER, JAMES PAUL. The involvement of a distinct art unit further highlights the narrow scope of the current pending workload. Practitioners managing this portfolio must focus their efforts on the specific preferences established by this examiner.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SHELLHAMMER, JAMES PAUL | 1 | 10.0% | +18.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19202578 | COMPOSITION OF RECOMBINANT CASEINS AND PLANT MATERIAL | SHELLHAMMER, JAMES PAUL | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19202578 | COMPOSITION OF RECOMBINANT CASEINS AND PLANT MATERIAL | SHELLHAMMER, JAMES PAUL | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1793 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19202578 | COMPOSITION OF RECOMBINANT CASEINS AND PLANT MATERIAL | SHELLHAMMER, JAMES PAUL | 1793 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 08, 2025 |
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Start Free TrialPlantopia Ltd. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
James Paul Shellhammer has the most, with 1 of Plantopia Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
