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
VITALMELT LTD. currently manages 2 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are distributed across 2 distinct examiners, indicating that each pending matter is handled by a different individual. The portfolio involves 1 distinct art unit, suggesting a unified technical classification for these filings.
PACKARD, BENJAMIN J is identified as the busiest examiner for the company, currently overseeing 1 pending office action. This examiner is one of the 2 distinct examiners engaged with the portfolio. The 2 pending office actions are concentrated within 1 distinct art unit, which may streamline the prosecution strategy within Chemistry & Materials.
The involvement of 2 distinct examiners for 2 pending office actions means there is no overlap in personnel across the current cases. PACKARD, BENJAMIN J handles 1 pending office action, while the other action is assigned elsewhere. Practitioners can focus their analysis on the 1 distinct art unit to understand the specific standards applied to the company's Chemistry & Materials applications.
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 |
|---|---|
| Double-patenting + other | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PACKARD, BENJAMIN J | 1 | 66.7% | +15.6% |
| YOO, HONG THI | 1 | 45.8% | +26.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18271662 | FREEZE DRIED, READY TO CONSUME FOOD PRODUCTS AND PROCESSES FOR THEIR PREPARATION | YOO, HONG THI | 43d overdue |
| 18842039 | FREEZE DRIED, READY TO CONSUME NUTRICOSMETIC PRODUCTS AND PROCESSES FOR THEIR PREPARATION | PACKARD, BENJAMIN J | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1792 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18842039 | FREEZE DRIED, READY TO CONSUME NUTRICOSMETIC PRODUCTS AND PROCESSES FOR THEIR PREPARATION | PACKARD, BENJAMIN J | — | §103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 27, 2024 |
| 18271662 | FREEZE DRIED, READY TO CONSUME FOOD PRODUCTS AND PROCESSES FOR THEIR PREPARATION | YOO, HONG THI | 1792 | §103DP | Final Rejection | 43d overdue | Pending | Jul 10, 2023 |
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