Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Taylor Commercial Foodservice LLC currently has 2 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are handled by 2 distinct examiners. The portfolio is further divided across 2 distinct art units.
Examiner BECKER, DREW E is the busiest with 1 pending office action. Because each action is in a different art unit with a different examiner, the company must manage two distinct prosecution environments. This total lack of overlap between the 2 pending actions means that no efficiencies can be gained from examiner-specific or unit-specific history. Practitioners must treat each case as a completely independent matter, requiring separate research into the tendencies of both examiners and the rules of both art units. The diversity of this small portfolio suggests that the company's chemical and material innovations are being categorized into separate technical silos at 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 |
|---|---|
| §112 only | 1 (50%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BECKER, DREW E | 1 | 49.0% | +0.2% |
| WANG, FRANKLIN JEFFERSON | 1 | 50.4% | +53.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18112897 | MULTI-ROBOTIC ARM COOKING SYSTEM | WANG, FRANKLIN JEFFERSON | 44d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1792 | 1 |
| 3761 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18926072 | FROZEN DISPENSING MACHINE HEAT TREATMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD | BECKER, DREW E | 1792 | §103§112DP | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 24, 2024 |
| 18112897 | MULTI-ROBOTIC ARM COOKING SYSTEM | WANG, FRANKLIN JEFFERSON | 3761 | §112 | Final Rejection | 44d overdue | Pending | Feb 22, 2023 |
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