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
Prairiechar Inc. D/B/A Prairie Food has 2 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are distributed across 2 distinct art units and examiners, showing no overlap in the current personnel or technical groups.
GOLOBOY, JAMES C is the busiest examiner, currently handling 1 pending office action. Since the pending actions are assigned to different examiners, the company must manage separate prosecution tracks, each subject to the standards of different art units.
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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GOLOBOY, JAMES C | 1 | 63.7% | +8.7% |
| LANGEL, WAYNE A | 1 | 78.4% | +23.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18168333 | MANUFACTURING AND USE OF FUNCTIONALIZED SOIL AMENDMENT | LANGEL, WAYNE A | 22d overdue |
| 18381837 | FUNCTIONALIZED LIGNOCELLULOSE COMPOUND AND USES THEREOF | GOLOBOY, JAMES C | 12d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18168333 | MANUFACTURING AND USE OF FUNCTIONALIZED SOIL AMENDMENT | LANGEL, WAYNE A | 22d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1771 | 1 |
| 1736 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18381837 | FUNCTIONALIZED LIGNOCELLULOSE COMPOUND AND USES THEREOF | GOLOBOY, JAMES C | 1771 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 12d | Pending | Oct 19, 2023 |
| 18168333 | MANUFACTURING AND USE OF FUNCTIONALIZED SOIL AMENDMENT | LANGEL, WAYNE A | 1736 | §102§103§112Other | Final Rejection | 22d overdue | Pending | Feb 13, 2023 |
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