Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Chemistry & Materials
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Ready Mix Naturals LLC is currently prosecuting a portfolio in the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. The company has 2 pending office actions, reflecting an active effort to secure patent protection for its biological or pharmaceutical developments. Managing these two actions requires addressing specific technical or legal hurdles raised by the patent office across two separate applications.
The prosecution involves 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. This one-to-one mapping of actions to both examiners and art units suggests that the company's pending applications are technically diverse enough to fall under the jurisdiction of different specialized groups within the USPTO. MCMILLIAN, KARA RENITA is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, managing 1 busiest examiner pending action. With the workload split across different units, the company faces a variety of examination styles and technical benchmarks. This diversity in the examination process means that the company cannot rely on a single departmental standard but must instead tailor its legal arguments to two distinct sets of examiner expectations.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 1 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MCMILLIAN, KARA RENITA | 1 | 30.9% | +37.9% |
| CULBERT, COURTNEY GUENTHER | 1 | 27.8% | +4.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18498854 | VAPORIZABLE ALKALOID COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS OF USE THEREOF | CULBERT, COURTNEY GUENTHER | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18826821 | TOBACCO HARM REDUCTION AND PAIN RELIEF PRODUCTS AND METHODS THEREOF | MCMILLIAN, KARA RENITA | 84d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1623 | 1 |
| 1747 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18826821 | TOBACCO HARM REDUCTION AND PAIN RELIEF PRODUCTS AND METHODS THEREOF | MCMILLIAN, KARA RENITA | 1623 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 84d | Pending | Sep 06, 2024 |
| 18498854 | VAPORIZABLE ALKALOID COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS OF USE THEREOF | CULBERT, COURTNEY GUENTHER | 1747 | §102§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 31, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialReady Mix Naturals LLC has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Kara Renita Mcmillian has the most, with 1 of Ready Mix Naturals LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals (USPTO Tech Center 1600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
