Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
3 pending office actions • 1 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Profile Products L L C maintains a patent portfolio focused on the Chemistry & Materials technology area. The company currently faces 3 pending office actions, which are distributed across 3 distinct examiners. This distribution suggests that each active matter is being handled by a different individual at the patent office, requiring the company to adapt to 3 different examination styles.
Despite the involvement of multiple examiners, all prosecution activity is concentrated within 1 distinct art unit. This indicates a specific technical focus for the company's current filings, even as different examiners review the individual applications. Such concentration in 1 art unit can lead to more predictable examiner behavior and internal consistency across the portfolio as the company navigates its active matters.
The busiest examiner for the company is WEYDEMEYER, ETHAN, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. Because the company has 3 pending office actions in total, this examiner's workload represents a portion of the active prosecution. This distribution across 3 distinct examiners may require the company to manage various examination styles simultaneously within the same art unit.
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 |
|---|---|
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (67%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WEYDEMEYER, ETHAN | 1 | 44.2% | +44.5% |
| ZHANG, MICHAEL N | 1 | 54.2% | +23.3% |
| SMITH, JENNIFER A | 1 | 61.0% | +26.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19026752 | SUBSTRATE COMPRESSION PROCESS AND PRODUCT | WEYDEMEYER, ETHAN | — |
| 18287660 | FERTILIZER WITH HIGH POTASSIUM TO LOW NITROGEN RATIO | SMITH, JENNIFER A | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19026752 | SUBSTRATE COMPRESSION PROCESS AND PRODUCT | WEYDEMEYER, ETHAN | — |
| 18888335 | FIBER MAT WITH CHANNELS | ZHANG, MICHAEL N | — |
| 18287660 | FERTILIZER WITH HIGH POTASSIUM TO LOW NITROGEN RATIO | SMITH, JENNIFER A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1731 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19026752 | SUBSTRATE COMPRESSION PROCESS AND PRODUCT | WEYDEMEYER, ETHAN | — | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 17, 2025 |
| 18888335 | FIBER MAT WITH CHANNELS | ZHANG, MICHAEL N | — | §103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 18, 2024 |
| 18287660 | FERTILIZER WITH HIGH POTASSIUM TO LOW NITROGEN RATIO | SMITH, JENNIFER A | 1731 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 20, 2023 |
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