Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
4 pending office actions • 4 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
The Andersons Inc. currently has 3 pending office actions within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These actions are distributed across 3 distinct art units, showing technical variety for the pending matters. This distribution indicates that the company's intellectual property spans several different mechanical and commercial classifications. Each art unit brings its own set of examination challenges and technical precedents that the company must navigate.
Prosecution is handled by a distinct examiner for each case, ensuring that each pending action is reviewed by a different individual. This approach provides a variety of perspectives on the company's patent claims and prevents any specific examiner from having a disproportionate influence on the portfolio. WONG, JESSICA BOWEN is the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action, reflecting an even distribution of the workload across the USPTO staff.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 | 2 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ALMATRAHI, SAHAR FARIS | 1 | 30.3% | +56.9% |
| WONG, JESSICA BOWEN | 1 | 67.0% | +20.3% |
| CALLAWAY, SPENCER THOMAS | 1 | 36.7% | +16.1% |
| MILLER, MAKENNA RYLEIGH | 1 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19208777 | BIOCHAR GRANULE CONTAINING PELLETS | ALMATRAHI, SAHAR FARIS | 27d |
| 18661580 | DISPERSIBLE SEED MEAL PARTICLES | MILLER, MAKENNA RYLEIGH | 53d |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18939859 | ORGANIC MATERIAL PELLETS | CALLAWAY, SPENCER THOMAS | 15d overdue |
| 19208777 | BIOCHAR GRANULE CONTAINING PELLETS | ALMATRAHI, SAHAR FARIS | 27d |
| 18973165 | ANIMAL HOUSING PRODUCT INCLUDING AN ENCLOSURE WITH STIMULATORY RECESS MATERIAL | WONG, JESSICA BOWEN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3643 | 1 |
| 3644 | 1 |
| 3642 | 1 |
| 1611 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19208777 | BIOCHAR GRANULE CONTAINING PELLETS | ALMATRAHI, SAHAR FARIS | 3643 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 27d | Pending | May 15, 2025 |
| 18973165 | ANIMAL HOUSING PRODUCT INCLUDING AN ENCLOSURE WITH STIMULATORY RECESS MATERIAL | WONG, JESSICA BOWEN | 3644 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 09, 2024 |
| 18939859 | ORGANIC MATERIAL PELLETS | CALLAWAY, SPENCER THOMAS | 3642 | §103 | Final Rejection | 15d overdue | Pending | Nov 07, 2024 |
| 18661580 | DISPERSIBLE SEED MEAL PARTICLES | MILLER, MAKENNA RYLEIGH | 1611 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 53d | Pending | May 11, 2024 |
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