Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
6 pending office actions • 1 client • 5 examiners • 4 art units • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 5 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. 5 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 | 5 (83%) |
| No statute on record | 1 (17%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TRAN, LIEN THUY | 2 | 28.3% | +26.2% |
| GWARTNEY, ELIZABETH A | 1 | 36.2% | +34.9% |
| MERCHLINSKY, JOSEPH CULLEN | 1 | 8.3% | -9.1% |
| MERRIAM, ANDREW E | 1 | 23.0% | +31.4% |
| SILVERMAN, JANICE Y | 1 | 36.2% | +52.8% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17636504 | DEPOSITING METHOD AND DEPOSITOR PLATE | TRAN, LIEN THUY | 66d overdue |
| 18547796 | HIGH PH CO-EXTRACTION METHOD OF PREPARING A STABLE OIL BODY SOLUTION | MERCHLINSKY, JOSEPH CULLEN | 20d |
| 18255762 | FAT REDUCED GROUND MUCILAGINOUS SEEDS AS AFFORDABLE BINDER | TRAN, LIEN THUY | 68d |
| 18044658 | PLANT BASED SOFT SERVE FROZEN DESSERT COMPOSITION | MERRIAM, ANDREW E | — |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17636504 | DEPOSITING METHOD AND DEPOSITOR PLATE | TRAN, LIEN THUY | 66d overdue |
| 18002544 | METHOD FOR THE TREATMENT OF PROTEIN-CONTAINING COMPOSITIONS | SILVERMAN, JANICE Y | 30d overdue |
| 18694891 | INCREASING HYDROLYSIS EFFICIENCY IN CEREAL PROCESS BY EMPLOYING LYTIC POLYSACCHARIDES MONOOXYGENEASE (LPMO) IN COMBINATION WITH PROTEASES | GWARTNEY, ELIZABETH A | 34d |
| 18255762 | FAT REDUCED GROUND MUCILAGINOUS SEEDS AS AFFORDABLE BINDER | TRAN, LIEN THUY | 68d |
| 18044658 | PLANT BASED SOFT SERVE FROZEN DESSERT COMPOSITION | MERRIAM, ANDREW E | — |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| Nestle | 6 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1791 | 2 |
| 1793 | 2 |
| 1759 | 1 |
| 1792 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18694891 | INCREASING HYDROLYSIS EFFICIENCY IN CEREAL PROCESS BY EMPLOYING LYTIC POLYSACCHARIDES MONOOXYGENEASE (LPMO) IN COMBINATION WITH PROTEASES | Société des Produits Nestlé S.A. | GWARTNEY, ELIZABETH A | 1759 | §103 | Final Rejection | 34d | Pending | Mar 22, 2024 |
| 18547796 | HIGH PH CO-EXTRACTION METHOD OF PREPARING A STABLE OIL BODY SOLUTION | Société des Produits Nestlé S.A. | MERCHLINSKY, JOSEPH CULLEN | 1791 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 20d | Pending | Aug 24, 2023 |
| 18255762 | FAT REDUCED GROUND MUCILAGINOUS SEEDS AS AFFORDABLE BINDER | Société des Produits Nestlé S.A. | TRAN, LIEN THUY | 1793 | §103 | Final Rejection | 68d | Pending | Jun 02, 2023 |
| 18044658 | PLANT BASED SOFT SERVE FROZEN DESSERT COMPOSITION | Société des Produits Nestlé S.A. | MERRIAM, ANDREW E | 1791 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 09, 2023 |
| 18002544 | METHOD FOR THE TREATMENT OF PROTEIN-CONTAINING COMPOSITIONS | Société des Produits Nestlé S.A. | SILVERMAN, JANICE Y | 1792 | Other | Final Rejection | 30d overdue | Pending | Dec 20, 2022 |
| 17636504 | DEPOSITING METHOD AND DEPOSITOR PLATE | Société des Produits Nestlé S.A. | TRAN, LIEN THUY | 1793 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 66d overdue | Pending | Feb 18, 2022 |
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