Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Chemistry & Materials • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
14 pending office actions • 11 art units • 13 examiners • 0 of 14 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 10 patents granted in the last 365 days
Hill's Pet Nutrition Inc. has 13 pending office actions in Chemistry & Materials. The portfolio involves 12 distinct examiners and 9 distinct art units, showing broad examiner distribution with repeated assignments in some technical units.
WHALEY, PABLO S is the busiest examiner, with 2 pending matters. A focused review of those matters may reveal examiner-specific patterns, while the rest of the portfolio calls for art-unit-aware prosecution planning. Consistent treatment of formulation and materials terminology can support coordination across the assignments.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 5 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 5 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 | 4 (29%) |
| §103 only | 7 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (21%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WHALEY, PABLO S | 2 | 25.0% | +21.3% |
| EZEWOKO, MICHAEL I | 1 | 61.8% | +50.8% |
| GO, JOHN PHILIP | 1 | 33.9% | +43.3% |
| DUBOIS, PHILIP A | 1 | 25.6% | +26.3% |
| BASQUILL, SEAN M | 1 | 38.8% | +21.7% |
| MERRIAM, ANDREW E | 1 | 28.3% | +33.9% |
| NGUYEN, NAM V | 1 | 78.5% | +14.3% |
| PETERSON, ALANNA KAY | 1 | 41.1% | +27.6% |
| ROBERTS, LEZAH | 1 | 48.6% | +35.7% |
| BEKKER, KELLY JO | 1 | 16.8% | +35.1% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17388393 | System and Method for Determining Caloric Requirements of an Animal | WHALEY, PABLO S | 22d |
| 18800955 | Machine Learning-Based Phenotypic Age and Phenotypic Age Acceleration/Deceleration Prediction Tool for Pets | GO, JOHN PHILIP | 27d |
| 17383750 | System and Method for Determining Caloric Requirements of an Animal Based on a Plurality of Durational Parameters | WHALEY, PABLO S | 33d |
| 19137108 | Systems And Devices For Collecting Health Data And Methods Of Using Same | EZEWOKO, MICHAEL I | — |
| 18775891 | Pet Food Compositions and Methods for the Same | DUBOIS, PHILIP A | — |
| 18756828 | PET SHAMPOOS, PET FOOD COMPOSITIONS, AND REGIMENS AND/OR METHODS THEREOF | BASQUILL, SEAN M | — |
| 18720263 | Methods and Compositions for Improving the Health of Companion Animals | MERRIAM, ANDREW E | — |
| 18335201 | Pet Food Compositions | BEKKER, KELLY JO | — |
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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18358596 | Data Collection Device | PETERSON, ALANNA KAY | 26d overdue |
| 17388393 | System and Method for Determining Caloric Requirements of an Animal | WHALEY, PABLO S | 22d |
| 18800955 | Machine Learning-Based Phenotypic Age and Phenotypic Age Acceleration/Deceleration Prediction Tool for Pets | GO, JOHN PHILIP | 27d |
| 17383750 | System and Method for Determining Caloric Requirements of an Animal Based on a Plurality of Durational Parameters | WHALEY, PABLO S | 33d |
| 19137108 | Systems And Devices For Collecting Health Data And Methods Of Using Same | EZEWOKO, MICHAEL I | — |
| 18775891 | Pet Food Compositions and Methods for the Same | DUBOIS, PHILIP A | — |
| 18756828 | PET SHAMPOOS, PET FOOD COMPOSITIONS, AND REGIMENS AND/OR METHODS THEREOF | BASQUILL, SEAN M | — |
| 18720263 | Methods and Compositions for Improving the Health of Companion Animals | MERRIAM, ANDREW E | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1791 | 3 |
| 3619 | 2 |
| 3682 | 1 |
| 3681 | 1 |
| 1614 | 1 |
| 2685 | 1 |
| 3642 | 1 |
| 1612 | 1 |
| 1792 | 1 |
| 1617 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19137108 | Systems And Devices For Collecting Health Data And Methods Of Using Same | EZEWOKO, MICHAEL I | 3682 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 09, 2025 |
| 18800955 | Machine Learning-Based Phenotypic Age and Phenotypic Age Acceleration/Deceleration Prediction Tool for Pets | GO, JOHN PHILIP | 3681 | §101§112 | Final Rejection | 27d | Pending | Aug 12, 2024 |
| 18775891 | Pet Food Compositions and Methods for the Same | DUBOIS, PHILIP A | 1791 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 17, 2024 |
| 18756828 | PET SHAMPOOS, PET FOOD COMPOSITIONS, AND REGIMENS AND/OR METHODS THEREOF | BASQUILL, SEAN M | 1614 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 27, 2024 |
| 18720263 | Methods and Compositions for Improving the Health of Companion Animals | MERRIAM, ANDREW E | 1791 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 14, 2024 |
| 18601641 | ATTACHMENT FOR A WEARABLE COLLAR OF AN ANIMAL | NGUYEN, NAM V | 2685 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 11, 2024 |
| 18358596 | Data Collection Device | PETERSON, ALANNA KAY | 3642 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 26d overdue | Pending | Jul 25, 2023 |
| 18335208 | PET FOOD COMPOSITIONS | ROBERTS, LEZAH | 1612 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 15, 2023 |
| 18335201 | Pet Food Compositions | BEKKER, KELLY JO | 1792 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 15, 2023 |
| 18312757 | Pet Food Compositions | PALLAY, MICHAEL B | 1617 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 05, 2023 |
| 18248791 | Pet Food Compositions | SHELLHAMMER, JAMES PAUL | 1793 | §103 | Final Rejection | 31d overdue | Pending | Apr 12, 2023 |
| 17388393 | System and Method for Determining Caloric Requirements of an Animal | WHALEY, PABLO S | 3619 | §101§112 | Final Rejection | 22d | Pending | Jul 29, 2021 |
| 17383750 | System and Method for Determining Caloric Requirements of an Animal Based on a Plurality of Durational Parameters | WHALEY, PABLO S | 3619 | §101§112DP | Final Rejection | 33d | Pending | Jul 23, 2021 |
| 16067238 | Pet Food Compositions | LIU, DEBORAH YANG-HAO | 1791 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 29, 2018 |
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Start Free TrialHill's Pet Nutrition Inc. has 14 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 11 art units and 13 examiners.
Pablo S Whaley has the most, with 2 of Hill's Pet Nutrition Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
