Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
V. Mane Fils has 3 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are distributed among 3 distinct examiners, resulting in a unique examiner for every pending matter. The portfolio is active in 2 distinct art units, suggesting that the company's research in Chemistry & Materials covers multiple specialized technical areas.
Kevin Joyner is the busiest examiner for the company, currently managing 1 pending office action. With 3 pending office actions and 3 distinct examiners, the company interacts with a different reviewer for every pending matter. This requires the company to navigate 3 different individual approaches to patent examination across the 2 distinct art units involved.
Practitioners must manage 3 distinct examiners who each hold 1 pending office action. With the workload split across 2 distinct art units, the company must account for different examination cultures and technical standards. No single examiner or art unit has a dominant role in the 3 pending matters, necessitating a broad and coordinated prosecution strategy to ensure consistent results across the portfolio.
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 (33%) |
| §112 only | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| JOYNER, KEVIN | 1 | 68.3% | +23.6% |
| JONES, KOLTON ED | 1 | — | — |
| KIM, BRYAN | 1 | 28.4% | +36.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18576999 | FLAVORED CORE-SHELL CAPSULES FILM-COATED WITH POLYVINYLIDENE CHLORIDE | JONES, KOLTON ED | — |
| 17619298 | COLORED HYDROGEL MATERIALS AND METHOD MAKING SAME | KIM, BRYAN | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18728914 | VOLATILE SUBSTANCE DEVICE, USES AND METHODS RELATING TO SAME | JOYNER, KEVIN | — |
| 17619298 | COLORED HYDROGEL MATERIALS AND METHOD MAKING SAME | KIM, BRYAN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1755 | 1 |
| 1792 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18728914 | VOLATILE SUBSTANCE DEVICE, USES AND METHODS RELATING TO SAME | JOYNER, KEVIN | — | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 15, 2024 |
| 18576999 | FLAVORED CORE-SHELL CAPSULES FILM-COATED WITH POLYVINYLIDENE CHLORIDE | JONES, KOLTON ED | 1755 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 05, 2024 |
| 17619298 | COLORED HYDROGEL MATERIALS AND METHOD MAKING SAME | KIM, BRYAN | 1792 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 15, 2021 |
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