Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 9 patents granted in the last 365 days
Vita-Mix Management Corporation is managing a company patent portfolio in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. The portfolio currently has 2 pending office actions, which points to an active phase of intellectual property development. This suggests that the company is focusing on multiple innovations within the chemistry and materials fields and is working to move these applications through the patent office.
The prosecution involves 2 distinct examiners but is concentrated within 1 distinct art unit. This means that while the company is dealing with two different individuals, they both belong to the same administrative group. This structure provides some diversity in examiner perspective while ensuring that the technical standards and prior art focus remain consistent within a single art unit. Managing 2 distinct examiners within one art unit requires a strategy that accounts for individual examiner styles while adhering to the unit's general norms.
INSLER, ELIZABETH is the busiest examiner, currently handling 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Since there are 2 pending office actions in total, this examiner is responsible for half of the company's current pending workload. Practitioners should focus on the specific requirements of both examiners to effectively resolve the 2 pending office actions.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| INSLER, ELIZABETH | 1 | 66.9% | +25.4% |
| MCCARTY, PATRICK M | 1 | 62.3% | +23.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17396342 | CONTAINER FOR IMMERSION BLENDER | MCCARTY, PATRICK M | 19d overdue |
| 18538513 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND APPARATUSES FOR INSTITUTING A QUIET BLENDING MODE | INSLER, ELIZABETH | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1774 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18538513 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND APPARATUSES FOR INSTITUTING A QUIET BLENDING MODE | INSLER, ELIZABETH | — | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 13, 2023 |
| 17396342 | CONTAINER FOR IMMERSION BLENDER | MCCARTY, PATRICK M | 1774 | §103 | Final Rejection | 19d overdue | Pending | Aug 06, 2021 |
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