Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 02, 2026

Caravan Ingredients Inc.

Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems

3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready

Analysis

Caravan Ingredients Inc. is currently navigating 3 pending office actions within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These actions are distributed among 3 distinct examiners, indicating that each pending matter is being reviewed by a different individual. This distribution suggests a variety of perspectives are being applied to the portfolio's current applications. The workload spans 2 distinct art units, showing some technical breadth within the broader technology area.

MA, LISA is identified as the busiest examiner, though she is responsible for only 1 busiest examiner pending office action. This means that the 3 pending office actions are spread evenly, with no single examiner holding a majority of the cases. For the practitioner, this implies that strategies must be tailored to the different examiners across the 2 distinct art units. The presence of 3 distinct examiners highlights a lack of examiner concentration, requiring a broader approach to prosecution management compared to a more centralized portfolio.

Written from this page's own data; every figure is computed from USPTO records and verified before publication.

Portfolio Summary

3
Total Pending OAs
1
Non-Final OAs
2
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

1
Overdue
0
Due this week
0
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
0
Due later

Case Difficulty Mix

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.

3
Hard (100%)
0
Medium (0%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only1 (33%)
Multi-statute (no §101)2 (67%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

1
Life Sciences
33% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
1
Mechanical / Eng
33% of docket
1
Business / Other
33% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

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.

30 h
Manual time on pending OAs
6 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
10 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.3 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
MA, LISA 1 47.7% +44.8%
MUKHOPADHYAY, BHASKAR 1 28.2% +37.0%
TRAN, LIEN THUY 1 28.6% +26.5%

Hard Cases (3)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18019394 WHEAT-CONTAINING FLOUR AND DOUGH WITH PEA PROTEIN TRAN, LIEN THUY 97d overdue
18960086 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GENERATING AND MANAGING INTERACTIVE VALUES OF ONLINE CONTENT IN ONLINE INTERACTIVE MEDIA DATA FEEDS MA, LISA —
18812302 SUGAR-PRODUCING AND TEXTURE-IMPROVING BAKERY METHODS AND PRODUCTS FORMED THEREFROM MUKHOPADHYAY, BHASKAR —

Interview Candidates (3)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18019394 WHEAT-CONTAINING FLOUR AND DOUGH WITH PEA PROTEIN TRAN, LIEN THUY 97d overdue
18960086 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GENERATING AND MANAGING INTERACTIVE VALUES OF ONLINE CONTENT IN ONLINE INTERACTIVE MEDIA DATA FEEDS MA, LISA —
18812302 SUGAR-PRODUCING AND TEXTURE-IMPROVING BAKERY METHODS AND PRODUCTS FORMED THEREFROM MUKHOPADHYAY, BHASKAR —

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3628 1
1793 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18960086 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GENERATING AND MANAGING INTERACTIVE VALUES OF ONLINE CONTENT IN ONLINE INTERACTIVE MEDIA DATA FEEDS MA, LISA 3628 §101 Final Rejection — Pending Nov 26, 2024
18812302 SUGAR-PRODUCING AND TEXTURE-IMPROVING BAKERY METHODS AND PRODUCTS FORMED THEREFROM MUKHOPADHYAY, BHASKAR — §103§112Other Non-Final OA — Pending Aug 22, 2024
18019394 WHEAT-CONTAINING FLOUR AND DOUGH WITH PEA PROTEIN TRAN, LIEN THUY 1793 §102§103§112 Final Rejection 97d overdue Pending Feb 02, 2023

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