Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Vitamin Leaf LLC maintains a patent portfolio in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. There is currently 1 pending office action associated with this portfolio, which reflects a concentrated effort on a specific patent application. The prosecution is localized, involving 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, suggesting that the company is prioritizing a single technical development at this time.
SZUMIGALSKI, NICOLE ASHLEY is the busiest examiner for the company, with 1 pending office action. Given that there is only 1 distinct examiner for the pending workload, the company's immediate prosecution success is tied to the specific feedback of this single examiner. Practitioners should review the past allowance rates of SZUMIGALSKI, NICOLE ASHLEY to calibrate their expectations.
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 | 1 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SZUMIGALSKI, NICOLE ASHLEY | 1 | 56.5% | +23.8% |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17774852 | VAPE PEN AND VAPING FLUID DELIVERY CONTAINER PROTECTION DEVICE AND DECORATIVE COVER | SZUMIGALSKI, NICOLE ASHLEY | 161d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1755 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17774852 | VAPE PEN AND VAPING FLUID DELIVERY CONTAINER PROTECTION DEVICE AND DECORATIVE COVER | SZUMIGALSKI, NICOLE ASHLEY | 1755 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 161d overdue | Pending | May 05, 2022 |
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