Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 12, 2026

Conagra Foods RDM Inc.

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

Portfolio Summary

4
Total Pending OAs
1
Non-Final OAs
3
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

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.

2
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.

4
Hard (100%)
0
Medium (0%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
Multi-statute (no §101)4 (100%)

Industry Mix

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

3
Life Sciences
75% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
0
Mechanical / Eng
0% of docket
1
Business / Other
25% 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.

40 h
Manual time on pending OAs
8 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
14 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.3 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
ROBERTS, HERBERT K 1 68.1% +12.8%
SMITH, CHAIM A 1 39.5% +51.8%
THAKUR, VIREN A 1 13.5% +27.0%
LE, EMILY M 1 17.6% -3.1%

Hard Cases (4)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18366248 MICROWAVE FOOD PRODUCT WITH VENT FOR ROASTING SMITH, CHAIM A 71d overdue
18206872 FLUOROCHEMICAL-FREE MICROWAVE POPCORN PACKAGE AND PRODUCTION PROCESS THAKUR, VIREN A 2d overdue
18807441 SPROUTED POPCORN AND METHOD FOR MAKING SPROUTED POPCORN ROBERTS, HERBERT K
16891461 PLANT OIL BASED FAT SPREAD LE, EMILY M

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
18366248 MICROWAVE FOOD PRODUCT WITH VENT FOR ROASTING SMITH, CHAIM A 71d overdue
18206872 FLUOROCHEMICAL-FREE MICROWAVE POPCORN PACKAGE AND PRODUCTION PROCESS THAKUR, VIREN A 2d overdue
18807441 SPROUTED POPCORN AND METHOD FOR MAKING SPROUTED POPCORN ROBERTS, HERBERT K

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1791 1
1792 1
1793 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18807441 SPROUTED POPCORN AND METHOD FOR MAKING SPROUTED POPCORN ROBERTS, HERBERT K §103§112Other Non-Final OA Pending Aug 16, 2024
18366248 MICROWAVE FOOD PRODUCT WITH VENT FOR ROASTING SMITH, CHAIM A 1791 §102§103 Final Rejection 71d overdue Pending Aug 07, 2023
18206872 FLUOROCHEMICAL-FREE MICROWAVE POPCORN PACKAGE AND PRODUCTION PROCESS THAKUR, VIREN A 1792 §103§112 Final Rejection 2d overdue Pending Jun 07, 2023
16891461 PLANT OIL BASED FAT SPREAD LE, EMILY M 1793 §103§112 Final Rejection Pending Jun 03, 2020

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