Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
8 pending office actions • 1 client • 8 examiners • 3 art units • 0 of 8 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
DORITY & MANNING, PA & SOCIETE DES PRODUITS NESTLE handles Chemistry & Materials. The firm has 28235 career applications and an 88.31 percent resolved allowance rate. There are 11 pending office actions. The firm averages 3.39 office actions per allowance.
The 11 pending office actions for Nestle are part of the firm's 28235 career applications. The 88.31 percent allowance rate indicates the success level for these Chemistry & Materials applications, which typically require 3.39 office actions per allowance.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 6 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. 6 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 | 2 (25%) |
| §112 only | 1 (12%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 5 (62%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MERRIAM, ANDREW E | 1 | 26.8% | +32.4% |
| WATTS, JENNA A | 1 | 48.6% | +53.9% |
| MCNEIL, JENNIFER C | 1 | 23.9% | +19.1% |
| PRAKASH, SUBBALAKSHMI | 1 | 45.7% | +36.1% |
| MERCHLINSKY, JOSEPH CULLEN | 1 | 5.9% | -6.3% |
| NGUYEN, THANH H | 1 | 18.5% | +34.3% |
| TRAN, LIEN THUY | 1 | 28.6% | +26.5% |
| O'HERN, BRENT T | 1 | 78.5% | +19.8% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16462808 | CREAMERS COMPOSITIONS | O'HERN, BRENT T | 9d overdue |
| 18545906 | AERATED CREAMERS, PACKAGED READY-TO-USE AERATED CREAMERS, AND METHODS OF MAKING AND USING SUCH CREAMERS | WATTS, JENNA A | 4d overdue |
| 18571885 | SOLUBLE COFFEE POWDER | MCNEIL, JENNIFER C | 12d |
| 18547796 | HIGH PH CO-EXTRACTION METHOD OF PREPARING A STABLE OIL BODY SOLUTION | MERCHLINSKY, JOSEPH CULLEN | 20d |
| 18568065 | ROASTED COFFEE | PRAKASH, SUBBALAKSHMI | 40d |
| 18255762 | FAT REDUCED GROUND MUCILAGINOUS SEEDS AS AFFORDABLE BINDER | TRAN, LIEN THUY | 68d |
| 18720344 | A CHOCOLATE PRODUCT COMPRISING A MILK ANALOGUE PRODUCT | MERRIAM, ANDREW E | — |
| 18262634 | AERATED FREEZE-DRIED BABY-SNACK | NGUYEN, THANH H | — |
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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16462808 | CREAMERS COMPOSITIONS | O'HERN, BRENT T | 9d overdue |
| 18545906 | AERATED CREAMERS, PACKAGED READY-TO-USE AERATED CREAMERS, AND METHODS OF MAKING AND USING SUCH CREAMERS | WATTS, JENNA A | 4d overdue |
| 18571885 | SOLUBLE COFFEE POWDER | MCNEIL, JENNIFER C | 12d |
| 18568065 | ROASTED COFFEE | PRAKASH, SUBBALAKSHMI | 40d |
| 18255762 | FAT REDUCED GROUND MUCILAGINOUS SEEDS AS AFFORDABLE BINDER | TRAN, LIEN THUY | 68d |
| 18720344 | A CHOCOLATE PRODUCT COMPRISING A MILK ANALOGUE PRODUCT | MERRIAM, ANDREW E | — |
| 18262634 | AERATED FREEZE-DRIED BABY-SNACK | NGUYEN, THANH H | — |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| Nestlé S.A. | 8 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1793 | 4 |
| 1791 | 3 |
| 1792 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18720344 | A CHOCOLATE PRODUCT COMPRISING A MILK ANALOGUE PRODUCT | Société des Produits Nestlé S.A. | MERRIAM, ANDREW E | 1791 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 14, 2024 |
| 18545906 | AERATED CREAMERS, PACKAGED READY-TO-USE AERATED CREAMERS, AND METHODS OF MAKING AND USING SUCH CREAMERS | Société des Produits Nestlé S.A. | WATTS, JENNA A | 1791 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 4d overdue | Pending | Dec 19, 2023 |
| 18571885 | SOLUBLE COFFEE POWDER | Société des Produits Nestlé S.A. | MCNEIL, JENNIFER C | 1793 | §112 | Final Rejection | 12d | Pending | Dec 19, 2023 |
| 18568065 | ROASTED COFFEE | Société des Produits Nestlé S.A. | PRAKASH, SUBBALAKSHMI | 1793 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 40d | Pending | Dec 07, 2023 |
| 18547796 | HIGH PH CO-EXTRACTION METHOD OF PREPARING A STABLE OIL BODY SOLUTION | Société des Produits Nestlé S.A. | MERCHLINSKY, JOSEPH CULLEN | 1791 | §103 | Final Rejection | 20d | Pending | Aug 24, 2023 |
| 18262634 | AERATED FREEZE-DRIED BABY-SNACK | Société des Produits Nestlé S.A. | NGUYEN, THANH H | 1792 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 24, 2023 |
| 18255762 | FAT REDUCED GROUND MUCILAGINOUS SEEDS AS AFFORDABLE BINDER | Société des Produits Nestlé S.A. | TRAN, LIEN THUY | 1793 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 68d | Pending | Jun 02, 2023 |
| 16462808 | CREAMERS COMPOSITIONS | Société des Produits Nestlé S.A. | O'HERN, BRENT T | 1793 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 9d overdue | Pending | May 21, 2019 |
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