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
Tanya Diaz currently manages 1 pending office action within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This prosecution activity is limited to 1 distinct art unit and involves 1 distinct examiner. This concentrated profile suggests a highly targeted approach to securing patent rights for a specific chemical or material innovation. The presence of only 1 distinct art unit indicates that the current filings are focused within a single technical classification, avoiding the complexity of multi-unit reviews. This allows for a more direct application of technical arguments tailored to the specific standards of that unit.
BRENT T O'HERN is identified as the busiest examiner, overseeing 1 pending office action. As the sole examiner currently reviewing the portfolio, the progress of the company's patent applications is tied directly to the individual examination style and procedural requirements of this official. For the practitioner, this means that the prosecution strategy can be optimized for the specific feedback of this examiner. With 1 pending office action in the Chemistry & Materials area, the immediate intellectual property outcomes for Tanya Diaz are entirely dependent on the resolution of this single active matter. This focus provides an opportunity for a highly specialized and efficient response to the patent office.
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) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| O'HERN, BRENT T | 1 | 78.5% | +19.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18385671 | SEASONING BLEND CONTAINING TETRAHYDROCANNABINOL | O'HERN, BRENT T | 40d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18385671 | SEASONING BLEND CONTAINING TETRAHYDROCANNABINOL | O'HERN, BRENT T | 40d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1793 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18385671 | SEASONING BLEND CONTAINING TETRAHYDROCANNABINOL | O'HERN, BRENT T | 1793 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 40d | Pending | Oct 31, 2023 |
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