Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Terviva Inc. operates a patent portfolio within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. The portfolio currently features 2 pending office actions, which are being managed by 1 distinct examiner. This concentration of work suggests a highly focused prosecution effort where a single individual is responsible for evaluating the company's current chemistry-related claims.
The examination is localized within a distinct art unit. SHELLHAMMER, JAMES PAUL is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently overseeing 2 pending office actions. Since the total number of pending actions is 2, this examiner is responsible for the entire active workload. This arrangement allows for a high degree of consistency in how the company's technology is interpreted across its pending applications.
Practitioners should recognize that having all matters before a single examiner in one art unit can be advantageous for maintaining a uniform claim strategy. However, it also means that the portfolio's immediate success is heavily dependent on the perspective of one individual. Building a constructive relationship with this specific examiner is likely a central component of the company's current intellectual property strategy.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SHELLHAMMER, JAMES PAUL | 2 | 10.0% | +18.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17916482 | PONGAMIA OIL COMPOSITIONS, AND METHODS FOR PRODUCING AND USING THEREOF | SHELLHAMMER, JAMES PAUL | 1d overdue |
| 17916529 | PONGAMIA OIL COMPOSITIONS, AND METHODS FOR PRODUCING AND USING THEREOF | SHELLHAMMER, JAMES PAUL | 21d |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17916482 | PONGAMIA OIL COMPOSITIONS, AND METHODS FOR PRODUCING AND USING THEREOF | SHELLHAMMER, JAMES PAUL | 1d overdue |
| 17916529 | PONGAMIA OIL COMPOSITIONS, AND METHODS FOR PRODUCING AND USING THEREOF | SHELLHAMMER, JAMES PAUL | 21d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1793 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17916482 | PONGAMIA OIL COMPOSITIONS, AND METHODS FOR PRODUCING AND USING THEREOF | SHELLHAMMER, JAMES PAUL | 1793 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 1d overdue | Pending | Sep 30, 2022 |
| 17916529 | PONGAMIA OIL COMPOSITIONS, AND METHODS FOR PRODUCING AND USING THEREOF | SHELLHAMMER, JAMES PAUL | 1793 | §103 | Final Rejection | 21d | Pending | Sep 30, 2022 |
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