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
Tiger & Bean S L is currently managing 1 pending office action in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This indicates a targeted effort to secure its material science innovations. The company is focused on resolving this single outstanding matter to advance its intellectual property through the patent office.
The examination process involves 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. This structure shows that the company's technology is being evaluated within a specific technical department. For the practitioner, this concentration simplifies the prosecution landscape, as there is only one examiner and one set of art unit standards to address.
BEKKER, KELLY JO is the busiest examiner for this portfolio. This individual is currently overseeing the 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Because BEKKER, KELLY JO is responsible for the company's entire pending workload, the outcome of the current prosecution cycle depends on the interaction with this single examiner. Successfully navigating the 1 pending office action requires a clear understanding of the specific expectations held by BEKKER, KELLY JO.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BEKKER, KELLY JO | 1 | 16.7% | +35.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18263147 | PROCESS FOR THE PRODUCTION OF PLANT-BASED CRUMB | BEKKER, KELLY JO | 9d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18263147 | PROCESS FOR THE PRODUCTION OF PLANT-BASED CRUMB | BEKKER, KELLY JO | 9d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1792 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18263147 | PROCESS FOR THE PRODUCTION OF PLANT-BASED CRUMB | BEKKER, KELLY JO | 1792 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 9d | Pending | Jul 27, 2023 |
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