Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
VALIO OY currently manages 2 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are distributed across 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units, showing that the company's current filings are being reviewed in multiple technical contexts. This distribution suggests that the company is pursuing different chemical or material innovations that fall under separate classifications.
The busiest examiner for the portfolio is MERRIAM, ANDREW E, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. Because the 2 pending office actions are split between different examiners, the company must navigate two separate sets of examiner expectations. This variety in the prosecution environment means that the company's overall success is not dependent on a single examiner's interpretation within the 2 distinct art units. For the applicant, this provides a broader perspective on how their chemical technologies are viewed by the patent office.
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 | 2 (67%) |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GWARTNEY, ELIZABETH A | 1 | 36.0% | +34.8% |
| MERRIAM, ANDREW E | 1 | 26.8% | +32.4% |
| MCCLAIN, TYNESHA L. | 1 | 15.8% | +24.2% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18009786 | A METHOD FOR IMPROVING THE PROTEINACEOUS FIBRE STRUCTURE OF A TEXTURED VEGETABLE PROTEIN PRODUCT, METHODS OF CONTROLLING THE MOUTHFEEL OF A TEXTURED PROTEIN, AND TEXTURED VEGETABLE PROTEIN PRODUCTS | MERRIAM, ANDREW E | 7d |
| 18258115 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING A FORMED MEAT-REPLACEMENT FOOD PRODUCT AND A FORMED MEAT-REPLACEMENT FOOD PRODUCT COMPRISING A PLANT BASED PROTEINACEOUS BINDER INGREDIENT, A PLANT BASED PROTEINACEOUS BINDER INGREDIENT AND A METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING A PLANT-BASED PROTEINACEOUS BINDER INGREDIENT | GWARTNEY, ELIZABETH A | 29d |
| 16604243 | TEXTURIZED PROTEIN PRODUCT | MCCLAIN, TYNESHA L. | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18009786 | A METHOD FOR IMPROVING THE PROTEINACEOUS FIBRE STRUCTURE OF A TEXTURED VEGETABLE PROTEIN PRODUCT, METHODS OF CONTROLLING THE MOUTHFEEL OF A TEXTURED PROTEIN, AND TEXTURED VEGETABLE PROTEIN PRODUCTS | MERRIAM, ANDREW E | 7d |
| 18258115 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING A FORMED MEAT-REPLACEMENT FOOD PRODUCT AND A FORMED MEAT-REPLACEMENT FOOD PRODUCT COMPRISING A PLANT BASED PROTEINACEOUS BINDER INGREDIENT, A PLANT BASED PROTEINACEOUS BINDER INGREDIENT AND A METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING A PLANT-BASED PROTEINACEOUS BINDER INGREDIENT | GWARTNEY, ELIZABETH A | 29d |
| 16604243 | TEXTURIZED PROTEIN PRODUCT | MCCLAIN, TYNESHA L. | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1759 | 1 |
| 1791 | 1 |
| 1793 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18258115 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING A FORMED MEAT-REPLACEMENT FOOD PRODUCT AND A FORMED MEAT-REPLACEMENT FOOD PRODUCT COMPRISING A PLANT BASED PROTEINACEOUS BINDER INGREDIENT, A PLANT BASED PROTEINACEOUS BINDER INGREDIENT AND A METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING A PLANT-BASED PROTEINACEOUS BINDER INGREDIENT | GWARTNEY, ELIZABETH A | 1759 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 29d | Pending | Jun 16, 2023 |
| 18009786 | A METHOD FOR IMPROVING THE PROTEINACEOUS FIBRE STRUCTURE OF A TEXTURED VEGETABLE PROTEIN PRODUCT, METHODS OF CONTROLLING THE MOUTHFEEL OF A TEXTURED PROTEIN, AND TEXTURED VEGETABLE PROTEIN PRODUCTS | MERRIAM, ANDREW E | 1791 | §103 | Final Rejection | 7d | Pending | Dec 12, 2022 |
| 16604243 | TEXTURIZED PROTEIN PRODUCT | MCCLAIN, TYNESHA L. | 1793 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 10, 2019 |
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