Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
4 pending office actions • 3 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Conagra Foods RDM Inc. currently manages 4 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are spread across 4 distinct examiners, meaning each pending case is under the review of a different official. The portfolio is active in 3 distinct art units, which indicates that the company's innovations in Chemistry & Materials are diverse enough to be classified into several different technical categories. This spread across 3 art units suggests that the company must maintain a broad prosecution strategy to address various technical standards.
TRAN, LIEN THUY is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, currently handling 1 of the pending office actions. Because there are 4 pending office actions in total, the workload is distributed among the 4 distinct examiners. The presence of 3 distinct art units for only 4 pending actions shows a relatively high degree of technical variety in the company's current filings. Practitioners should be prepared to navigate 4 different examiner styles across these 3 art units. Successfully resolving the 4 pending office actions will require a tailored approach for each examiner, including TRAN, LIEN THUY, within their respective art units.
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 (50%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (25%) |
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 | 1 | 28.7% | +26.5% |
| VAN, QUANG T | 1 | 74.3% | +8.3% |
| TAWFIK, SAMEH | 1 | 63.1% | +31.5% |
| LE, EMILY M | 1 | 17.9% | -3.7% |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18769652 | WATER ABSORBERS AND SEPARATION MECHANISMS FOR APPLICATION TO HIGH MOISTURE FOODSTUFFS | TRAN, LIEN THUY | — |
| 18530834 | MICROWAVE COOKING PACKAGE | VAN, QUANG T | — |
| 16891461 | PLANT OIL BASED FAT SPREAD | LE, EMILY M | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18769652 | WATER ABSORBERS AND SEPARATION MECHANISMS FOR APPLICATION TO HIGH MOISTURE FOODSTUFFS | TRAN, LIEN THUY | — |
| 18206883 | FLUOROCHEMICAL-FREE MICROWAVE POPCORN PACKAGE AND PRODUCTION PROCESS | TAWFIK, SAMEH | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1793 | 2 |
| 3761 | 1 |
| 3731 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18769652 | WATER ABSORBERS AND SEPARATION MECHANISMS FOR APPLICATION TO HIGH MOISTURE FOODSTUFFS | TRAN, LIEN THUY | 1793 | §103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 11, 2024 |
| 18530834 | MICROWAVE COOKING PACKAGE | VAN, QUANG T | 3761 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 06, 2023 |
| 18206883 | FLUOROCHEMICAL-FREE MICROWAVE POPCORN PACKAGE AND PRODUCTION PROCESS | TAWFIK, SAMEH | 3731 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 07, 2023 |
| 16891461 | PLANT OIL BASED FAT SPREAD | LE, EMILY M | 1793 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 03, 2020 |
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Start Free TrialConagra Foods RDM Inc. has 4 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 4 examiners.
Lien Thuy Tran has the most, with 1 of Conagra Foods RDM Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
