Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Chemistry & Materials
7 pending office actions • 4 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
The Upside Group Inc. maintains a patent portfolio in the Chemistry & Materials technology area, currently featuring 5 pending office actions. These actions are spread across 5 distinct examiners. This distribution indicates a broad prosecution front where every pending action is being reviewed by a different individual, requiring the company to manage multiple distinct examiner relationships simultaneously.
The busiest examiner for the portfolio is HENSEL, BRENDAN A, who handles 1 busiest examiner pending action. The workload is divided among 3 distinct art units. This involvement of multiple art units suggests that the company's chemistry-related intellectual property is diverse enough to fall under the jurisdiction of several different specialized groups within the patent office. Practitioners should be prepared for a varied prosecution experience, as the lack of concentration among examiners and art units means that no single decision will necessarily set a precedent for the rest of the portfolio.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (14%) |
| §103 only | 1 (14%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 5 (71%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HENSEL, BRENDAN A | 1 | 66.1% | +27.7% |
| MONTANARI, DAVID A | 1 | 64.7% | +49.0% |
| SHELLHAMMER, JAMES PAUL | 1 | 10.0% | +18.8% |
| DIVIESTI, KARLA ISOBEL | 1 | 3.4% | +20.0% |
| MCNEIL, JENNIFER C | 1 | 23.9% | +19.1% |
| SCHUBERG, LAURA J | 1 | 23.6% | +37.0% |
| YAMASAKI, ROBERT J | 1 | 67.6% | +43.7% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17658009 | GENERATION OF CELL-BASED PRODUCTS FOR CONSUMPTION THAT COMPRISE PROTEINS FROM EXOTIC, ENDANGERED, AND EXTINCT SPECIES | YAMASAKI, ROBERT J | 49d overdue |
| 18458564 | PLANT BASE/ANIMAL CELL HYBRID MEAT SUBSTITUTE | SHELLHAMMER, JAMES PAUL | 26d |
| 18298019 | VACUUM DRYING A COMESTIBLE CELL-BASED MEAT PRODUCT | MCNEIL, JENNIFER C | 26d |
| 18741412 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR STERILIZING BIOREACTOR SYSTEMS WITH SUPERHEATED WATER | HENSEL, BRENDAN A | — |
| 18731343 | NUTRIENT MEDIA FOR THE PRODUCTION OF SLAUGHTER-FREE MEAT | MONTANARI, DAVID A | — |
| 18334250 | SUSPENSION BASED CHICKEN PRODUCT FORMULATION | DIVIESTI, KARLA ISOBEL | — |
| 18146541 | METHOD FOR WASHING AND FINISHING A GROWN CELL MASS | SCHUBERG, LAURA J | — |
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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17658009 | GENERATION OF CELL-BASED PRODUCTS FOR CONSUMPTION THAT COMPRISE PROTEINS FROM EXOTIC, ENDANGERED, AND EXTINCT SPECIES | YAMASAKI, ROBERT J | 49d overdue |
| 18458564 | PLANT BASE/ANIMAL CELL HYBRID MEAT SUBSTITUTE | SHELLHAMMER, JAMES PAUL | 26d |
| 18298019 | VACUUM DRYING A COMESTIBLE CELL-BASED MEAT PRODUCT | MCNEIL, JENNIFER C | 26d |
| 18741412 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR STERILIZING BIOREACTOR SYSTEMS WITH SUPERHEATED WATER | HENSEL, BRENDAN A | — |
| 18731343 | NUTRIENT MEDIA FOR THE PRODUCTION OF SLAUGHTER-FREE MEAT | MONTANARI, DAVID A | — |
| 18334250 | SUSPENSION BASED CHICKEN PRODUCT FORMULATION | DIVIESTI, KARLA ISOBEL | — |
| 18146541 | METHOD FOR WASHING AND FINISHING A GROWN CELL MASS | SCHUBERG, LAURA J | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1793 | 2 |
| 1792 | 1 |
| 1631 | 1 |
| 1657 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18741412 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR STERILIZING BIOREACTOR SYSTEMS WITH SUPERHEATED WATER | HENSEL, BRENDAN A | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 12, 2024 |
| 18731343 | NUTRIENT MEDIA FOR THE PRODUCTION OF SLAUGHTER-FREE MEAT | MONTANARI, DAVID A | — | §101§102§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 02, 2024 |
| 18458564 | PLANT BASE/ANIMAL CELL HYBRID MEAT SUBSTITUTE | SHELLHAMMER, JAMES PAUL | 1793 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 26d | Pending | Aug 30, 2023 |
| 18334250 | SUSPENSION BASED CHICKEN PRODUCT FORMULATION | DIVIESTI, KARLA ISOBEL | 1792 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 13, 2023 |
| 18298019 | VACUUM DRYING A COMESTIBLE CELL-BASED MEAT PRODUCT | MCNEIL, JENNIFER C | 1793 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 26d | Pending | Apr 10, 2023 |
| 18146541 | METHOD FOR WASHING AND FINISHING A GROWN CELL MASS | SCHUBERG, LAURA J | 1631 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 27, 2022 |
| 17658009 | GENERATION OF CELL-BASED PRODUCTS FOR CONSUMPTION THAT COMPRISE PROTEINS FROM EXOTIC, ENDANGERED, AND EXTINCT SPECIES | YAMASAKI, ROBERT J | 1657 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 49d overdue | Pending | Apr 05, 2022 |
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