Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Chemistry & Materials
5 pending office actions • 4 clients • 5 examiners • 5 art units • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
SDIP LLC operates in Chemistry & Materials, having handled 58 career applications. The firm maintains a resolved allowance rate pct of 85.71, showing a strong ability to secure patents in this technical field. This success rate suggests that the firm is effective at defining and defending chemical and material science claims, which often face rigorous scrutiny during the examination process.
The firm currently manages 4 pending office actions. An avg office actions per allowance of 4.6 indicates a more intensive prosecution cycle, requiring nearly five office actions on average to reach an allowance. This suggests that the firm's cases in chemistry and materials often involve complex and prolonged negotiations with examiners, requiring persistent advocacy and multiple rounds of technical responses to achieve a successful outcome.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 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. 3 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 | 1 (20%) |
| §112 only | 1 (20%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (60%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MEAH, MOHAMMAD Y | 1 | 70.7% | +42.8% |
| MUKHOPADHYAY, BHASKAR | 1 | 28.2% | +37.0% |
| SHELLHAMMER, JAMES PAUL | 1 | 10.0% | +18.8% |
| GERLA, STEPHANIE RAE | 1 | 16.3% | +30.6% |
| SAEED, ALI S | 1 | 31.6% | +33.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17093557 | MICROBIAL-BASED PROCESS FOR IMPROVED QUALITY PROTEIN CONCENTRATE | GERLA, STEPHANIE RAE | 45d overdue |
| 15159726 | METHOD FOR INCREASING THE UTILIZATION OF SOYBEAN PROTEIN BY SALMONID FISH | SAEED, ALI S | 16d |
| 18608400 | Microbial-Based Process for high Quality Protein Concentrate | MUKHOPADHYAY, BHASKAR | 54d |
| 18093889 | Microbial-Based Process for High Quality Protein Concentrate | SHELLHAMMER, JAMES PAUL | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17093557 | MICROBIAL-BASED PROCESS FOR IMPROVED QUALITY PROTEIN CONCENTRATE | GERLA, STEPHANIE RAE | 45d overdue |
| 15159726 | METHOD FOR INCREASING THE UTILIZATION OF SOYBEAN PROTEIN BY SALMONID FISH | SAEED, ALI S | 16d |
| 18608400 | Microbial-Based Process for high Quality Protein Concentrate | MUKHOPADHYAY, BHASKAR | 54d |
| 18984297 | MODIFIED BACTERIAL PROTEIN EXPRESSION SYSTEM | MEAH, MOHAMMAD Y | — |
| 18093889 | Microbial-Based Process for High Quality Protein Concentrate | SHELLHAMMER, JAMES PAUL | — |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| PRAIRIE AQUATECH LLC | 2 |
| Columbia University | 1 |
| The South Dakota Board Of Regents, AS Governing Board For South Dakota State University | 1 |
| Indiana Soybean Alliance, Inc. | 1 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1652 | 1 |
| 1792 | 1 |
| 1793 | 1 |
| 1791 | 1 |
| 1616 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18984297 | MODIFIED BACTERIAL PROTEIN EXPRESSION SYSTEM | The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York | MEAH, MOHAMMAD Y | 1652 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 17, 2024 |
| 18608400 | Microbial-Based Process for high Quality Protein Concentrate | The South Dakota Board Of Regents, AS Governing Board For South Dakota State University | MUKHOPADHYAY, BHASKAR | 1792 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 54d | Pending | Mar 18, 2024 |
| 18093889 | Microbial-Based Process for High Quality Protein Concentrate | Prairie Aquatech LLC | SHELLHAMMER, JAMES PAUL | 1793 | §103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 06, 2023 |
| 17093557 | MICROBIAL-BASED PROCESS FOR IMPROVED QUALITY PROTEIN CONCENTRATE | Prairie Aquatech LLC | GERLA, STEPHANIE RAE | 1791 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 45d overdue | Pending | Nov 09, 2020 |
| 15159726 | METHOD FOR INCREASING THE UTILIZATION OF SOYBEAN PROTEIN BY SALMONID FISH | Indiana Soybean Alliance, Inc. | SAEED, ALI S | 1616 | §103§112Other | Non-Final OA | 16d | Pending | May 19, 2016 |
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Start Free Trial85.7% of resolved applications prosecuted by Sdip LLC were allowed, across 58 applications in USPTO records.
4.60 office actions per allowed application on average.
5 pending office actions as of October 2026, for 4 clients, before 5 examiners in 5 art units.