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
VISCOFAN, S.A. has 2 pending office actions currently active in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These matters are being handled by 2 distinct examiners and are located within 2 distinct art units. This arrangement indicates that the company's current prosecution efforts are spread across different technical silos, requiring the legal team to interface with 2 distinct art units simultaneously.
MCDONOUGH, JAMES E is identified as the busiest examiner, with 1 busiest examiner pending action under their review. Because there are 2 distinct examiners in total, the workload is divided, with each examiner responsible for 1 of the 2 pending office actions. This distribution across 2 distinct examiners suggests that the 2 pending office actions will proceed independently of one another.
The involvement of 2 distinct art units within the Chemistry & Materials field implies that the subject matter of the 2 pending office actions is diverse enough to trigger different classification standards. Practitioners must adapt their arguments to the specific preferences of the 2 distinct examiners involved. With 1 busiest examiner pending action assigned to MCDONOUGH, JAMES E, the portfolio maintains a low level of examiner-specific concentration.
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 | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (67%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SILVERMAN, JANICE Y | 1 | 36.7% | +53.8% |
| MCDONOUGH, JAMES E | 1 | 71.1% | +10.9% |
| SHELLHAMMER, JAMES PAUL | 1 | 10.0% | +18.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18246736 | DRY COLLAGEN POWDER WITH SATIATING PROPERTIES AND METHOD FOR ITS PREPARATION | SHELLHAMMER, JAMES PAUL | 6d |
| 18292589 | REVERSIBLE EDIBLE FILM, USES AND METHOD OF PRODUCTION | SILVERMAN, JANICE Y | 76d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18246736 | DRY COLLAGEN POWDER WITH SATIATING PROPERTIES AND METHOD FOR ITS PREPARATION | SHELLHAMMER, JAMES PAUL | 6d |
| 18247736 | COLLAGEN INK FOR 3D PRINTING | MCDONOUGH, JAMES E | 7d |
| 18292589 | REVERSIBLE EDIBLE FILM, USES AND METHOD OF PRODUCTION | SILVERMAN, JANICE Y | 76d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1792 | 1 |
| 1734 | 1 |
| 1793 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18292589 | REVERSIBLE EDIBLE FILM, USES AND METHOD OF PRODUCTION | SILVERMAN, JANICE Y | 1792 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 76d | Pending | Jan 26, 2024 |
| 18247736 | COLLAGEN INK FOR 3D PRINTING | MCDONOUGH, JAMES E | 1734 | §103 | Final Rejection | 7d | Pending | Apr 03, 2023 |
| 18246736 | DRY COLLAGEN POWDER WITH SATIATING PROPERTIES AND METHOD FOR ITS PREPARATION | SHELLHAMMER, JAMES PAUL | 1793 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 6d | Pending | Mar 27, 2023 |
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