Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 8 patents granted in the last 365 days
Frito-Lay North America Inc. has 4 pending office actions in Chemistry & Materials. The matters are distributed across 4 examiners and 4 art units, with no repeated examiner or technical-unit assignment shown.
LUDWIG, PETER L is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. Matter-specific review is therefore more relevant than a strategy built around recurring examination assignments.
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 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (67%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MUKHOPADHYAY, BHASKAR | 1 | 28.2% | +37.0% |
| LIU, DEBORAH YANG-HAO | 1 | 8.9% | +12.3% |
| SONG, INJA | 1 | 66.5% | +47.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18891551 | Enzymatic Modification of Legume Rich Doughs to Produce Machinable Sheeted Snack Products | MUKHOPADHYAY, BHASKAR | — |
| 18581109 | Random Strand Vegetable Snack Product | LIU, DEBORAH YANG-HAO | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18891551 | Enzymatic Modification of Legume Rich Doughs to Produce Machinable Sheeted Snack Products | MUKHOPADHYAY, BHASKAR | — |
| 18581109 | Random Strand Vegetable Snack Product | LIU, DEBORAH YANG-HAO | — |
| 17494177 | COMMERCIAL SCALE 3D FOOD PRINTING | SONG, INJA | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1792 | 1 |
| 1791 | 1 |
| 1744 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18891551 | Enzymatic Modification of Legume Rich Doughs to Produce Machinable Sheeted Snack Products | MUKHOPADHYAY, BHASKAR | 1792 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 20, 2024 |
| 18581109 | Random Strand Vegetable Snack Product | LIU, DEBORAH YANG-HAO | 1791 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 19, 2024 |
| 17494177 | COMMERCIAL SCALE 3D FOOD PRINTING | SONG, INJA | 1744 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 05, 2021 |
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Start Free TrialFrito-Lay North America Inc. has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 3 examiners.
Bhaskar Mukhopadhyay has the most, with 1 of Frito-Lay North America Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
