Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Sensient Colors LLC currently has 1 pending office action within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This activity is localized to 1 distinct art unit and 1 distinct examiner. This focus suggests that the company's pending applications are being reviewed by a specific technical group at the patent office. Practitioners should monitor the examination trends in this distinct art unit to manage the company's prosecution effectively.
The busiest examiner for the company is LI, CHANGQING, who holds 1 busiest examiner pending action. This examiner is responsible for the current pending prosecution for the company. Because 1 distinct examiner is handling all pending matters, the company can maintain a consistent dialogue with the patent office. This centralized workload allows for a focused prosecution strategy within the Chemistry & Materials technology area, as all current responses are reviewed by the same individual.
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) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LI, CHANGQING | 1 | 29.3% | +33.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18526564 | Color-Changing Food Product and Method of Making a Color-Changing Food Product | LI, CHANGQING | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18526564 | Color-Changing Food Product and Method of Making a Color-Changing Food Product | LI, CHANGQING | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1791 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18526564 | Color-Changing Food Product and Method of Making a Color-Changing Food Product | LI, CHANGQING | 1791 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 01, 2023 |
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