Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Wholefiber Holding B V is currently active in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. The company's patent prosecution is focused on 1 pending office action, indicating a very specific stage of intellectual property development at the USPTO. This action is being reviewed by 1 distinct examiner, which simplifies the communication and response process for the applicant. Having only 1 active matter allows the company to concentrate its legal and technical resources on resolving the specific issues raised by this individual examiner.
The prosecution is localized within 1 distinct art unit, ensuring that the technical evaluation is conducted by a single specialized group of experts. GWARTNEY, ELIZABETH A is identified as the busiest examiner for the portfolio, with 1 busiest examiner pending action. For practitioners, this profile represents a concentrated prosecution effort where the main goal is to satisfy the requirements of 1 examiner within a specific technical niche. The strategy should focus on providing a precise response that meets the technical standards of the art unit and the specific concerns of the busiest examiner to move the application toward allowance.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GWARTNEY, ELIZABETH A | 1 | 36.0% | +34.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18708045 | METHOD FOR MAKING PARTICLES FROM CHICORY ROOT | GWARTNEY, ELIZABETH A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1791 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18708045 | METHOD FOR MAKING PARTICLES FROM CHICORY ROOT | GWARTNEY, ELIZABETH A | 1791 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 07, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialWholefiber Holding B V has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Elizabeth A Gwartney has the most, with 1 of Wholefiber Holding B V's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
