Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
BARILLA G. E R. FRATELLI S.P.A. manages a company patent portfolio in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. The portfolio currently has 4 pending office actions. These actions are distributed among 4 distinct examiners, meaning that each pending matter is being handled by a different official. This provides a variety of perspectives on the company's applications within the patent office, requiring the practitioner to manage multiple examiner relationships simultaneously.
The prosecution is organized within 2 distinct art units, indicating that the applications are grouped into a few specialized technical divisions. Christopher R Demeree is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently managing 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Given that there are 4 actions and 4 examiners, the workload is perfectly distributed, with each examiner responsible for exactly one pending matter. This decentralized examiner landscape across a limited number of art units suggests that while the technical focus is narrow, the individual examiner perspectives will be diverse, necessitating tailored responses for each application.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 | 2 (67%) |
| §102 only | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DEMEREE, CHRISTOPHER R | 1 | 68.9% | +14.2% |
| HAWKINS, AMANDA SALATA | 1 | 15.4% | +40.9% |
| TURNER, FELICIA C | 1 | 26.2% | +30.2% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17758472 | EMULSIFIED FOOD FORMULATION | HAWKINS, AMANDA SALATA | 132d overdue |
| 17769239 | PROCESS FOR THE PRODUCTION OF A PASTA FOOD PRODUCT BY EXTRUSION THROUGH AN INSERT MADE OF POLYACETAL RESIN AND RELATED PRODUCT | TURNER, FELICIA C | 30d |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17758472 | EMULSIFIED FOOD FORMULATION | HAWKINS, AMANDA SALATA | 132d overdue |
| 17769239 | PROCESS FOR THE PRODUCTION OF A PASTA FOOD PRODUCT BY EXTRUSION THROUGH AN INSERT MADE OF POLYACETAL RESIN AND RELATED PRODUCT | TURNER, FELICIA C | 30d |
| 18736059 | FLEXIBLE PAPER-POLYMER MULTILAYER PACKAGE, PREFERABLY FOR DRIED FOOD PRODUCTS | DEMEREE, CHRISTOPHER R | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1793 | 2 |
| 3734 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18736059 | FLEXIBLE PAPER-POLYMER MULTILAYER PACKAGE, PREFERABLY FOR DRIED FOOD PRODUCTS | DEMEREE, CHRISTOPHER R | 3734 | §102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 06, 2024 |
| 17758472 | EMULSIFIED FOOD FORMULATION | HAWKINS, AMANDA SALATA | 1793 | §103 | Final Rejection | 132d overdue | Pending | Jul 07, 2022 |
| 17769239 | PROCESS FOR THE PRODUCTION OF A PASTA FOOD PRODUCT BY EXTRUSION THROUGH AN INSERT MADE OF POLYACETAL RESIN AND RELATED PRODUCT | TURNER, FELICIA C | 1793 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 30d | Pending | Apr 14, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialBARILLA G. E R. FRATELLI S.P.A. has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 3 examiners.
Christopher R Demeree has the most, with 1 of BARILLA G. E R. FRATELLI S.P.A.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
