Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 8 patents granted in the last 365 days
Frito-Lay North America Inc. currently has 2 pending office actions within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These 2 actions are being reviewed by 2 distinct examiners, meaning each case is handled by a different individual. The portfolio is distributed across 2 distinct art units, indicating that each pending matter falls into a different technical classification at the USPTO.
The busiest examiner, LUDWIG, PETER L, is responsible for 1 pending case. This matches the overall distribution where 2 distinct examiners handle 2 pending office actions. For a practitioner, this means there is no concentration of cases under a single examiner. Each of the 2 actions must be prosecuted as an independent matter, requiring a unique strategy for each of the 2 distinct examiners involved.
The involvement of 2 distinct art units suggests that the company's technology is reviewed by more than one technical group. While the portfolio is small with only 2 pending office actions, the practitioner must still account for the different examination standards of 2 distinct art units. Because each of the 2 distinct examiners only has 1 pending case, the practitioner cannot leverage a single relationship to resolve multiple pending matters for the company in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems area.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (50%) |
| §103 only | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LUDWIG, PETER L | 1 | 35.1% | +22.7% |
| SONG, INJA | 1 | 66.4% | +48.8% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19194698 | PLANOGRAM VOID DETECTION AND AUTOMATED RESOLUTION | LUDWIG, PETER L | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19194698 | PLANOGRAM VOID DETECTION AND AUTOMATED RESOLUTION | LUDWIG, PETER L | — |
| 17494177 | COMMERCIAL SCALE 3D FOOD PRINTING | SONG, INJA | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3627 | 1 |
| 1744 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19194698 | PLANOGRAM VOID DETECTION AND AUTOMATED RESOLUTION | LUDWIG, PETER L | 3627 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 30, 2025 |
| 17494177 | COMMERCIAL SCALE 3D FOOD PRINTING | SONG, INJA | 1744 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 05, 2021 |
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