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
Prairie Aquatech LLC currently manages 2 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are split between 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. This distribution shows that the company's pending workload is divided into separate administrative channels.
SHELLHAMMER, JAMES PAUL is identified as the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action. Since the 2 pending office actions are assigned to 2 distinct examiners, the company must address different sets of examination criteria for each matter.
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) | 2 (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% |
| GERLA, STEPHANIE RAE | 1 | 16.3% | +30.6% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17093557 | MICROBIAL-BASED PROCESS FOR IMPROVED QUALITY PROTEIN CONCENTRATE | GERLA, STEPHANIE RAE | 45d overdue |
| 18093889 | Microbial-Based Process for High Quality Protein Concentrate | 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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17093557 | MICROBIAL-BASED PROCESS FOR IMPROVED QUALITY PROTEIN CONCENTRATE | GERLA, STEPHANIE RAE | 45d overdue |
| 18093889 | Microbial-Based Process for High Quality Protein Concentrate | SHELLHAMMER, JAMES PAUL | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1793 | 1 |
| 1791 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18093889 | Microbial-Based Process for High Quality Protein Concentrate | SHELLHAMMER, JAMES PAUL | 1793 | §103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 06, 2023 |
| 17093557 | MICROBIAL-BASED PROCESS FOR IMPROVED QUALITY PROTEIN CONCENTRATE | GERLA, STEPHANIE RAE | 1791 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 45d overdue | Pending | Nov 09, 2020 |
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Start Free TrialPrairie Aquatech LLC has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
James Paul Shellhammer has the most, with 1 of Prairie Aquatech LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.