Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Hill'S Pet Nutrition Inc.

10 pending office actions • 9 art units • 9 examiners • 0 of 10 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

10
Total Pending OAs
9
Non-Final OAs
1
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 10 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

3
Overdue
0
Due this week
6
Due this month
1
Due in next 60 days
0
Due later

Deadline Fire Line

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. 10 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (3)Due ≤ 30 days (6)Due ≤ 60 days (1)

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.

1
Hard (10%)
5
Medium (50%)
2
Easy (20%)
2
Unknown (20%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only1 (10%)
§103 only5 (50%)
§112 only2 (20%)
No statute on record2 (20%)

Industry Mix

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

6
Life Sciences
60% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
4
Mechanical / Eng
40% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% 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.

100 h
Manual time on pending OAs
20 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
35 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.9 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
WHALEY, PABLO S 2 25.2% +21.2%
GO, JOHN PHILIP 1 34.3% +44.3%
PETERSON, ALANNA KAY 1 39.5% +29.2%
SHIAO, YIH-HORNG 1 72.6% +75.6%
ZILBERING, ASSAF 1 33.7% +27.0%
LI, CHANGQING 1 30.0% +34.0%
MCINTOSH III, TRAVISS C 1 73.3% +13.9%
SHELLHAMMER, JAMES PAUL 1 0.0% +0.0%
JOHANNSEN, DIANA B 1 53.2% +41.1%

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
18248791 Pet Food Compositions SHELLHAMMER, JAMES PAUL 31d overdue
18087426 Methods and Compositions for Diagnosis and Treatment of Disorders in Pets JOHANNSEN, DIANA B 13d
17388393 System and Method for Determining Caloric Requirements of an Animal WHALEY, PABLO S 22d
17383750 System and Method for Determining Caloric Requirements of an Animal Based on a Plurality of Durational Parameters WHALEY, PABLO S 33d

Interview Candidates (9)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18358596 Data Collection Device PETERSON, ALANNA KAY 26d overdue
18335194 Pet Food Compositions ZILBERING, ASSAF 4d overdue
18087426 Methods and Compositions for Diagnosis and Treatment of Disorders in Pets JOHANNSEN, DIANA B 13d
18321970 Pet Food Compositions LI, CHANGQING 20d
18268722 Pet Food Compositions SHIAO, YIH-HORNG 22d
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
18321563 Pet Food Compositions MCINTOSH III, TRAVISS C 28d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3619 2
3681 1
3642 1
1691 1
1792 1
1791 1
1693 1
1793 1
1682 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18800955 Machine Learning-Based Phenotypic Age and Phenotypic Age Acceleration/Deceleration Prediction Tool for Pets GO, JOHN PHILIP 3681 §112 Non-Final OA 27d Pending Aug 12, 2024
18358596 Data Collection Device PETERSON, ALANNA KAY 3642 §103 Non-Final OA 26d overdue Pending Jul 25, 2023
18268722 Pet Food Compositions SHIAO, YIH-HORNG 1691 §103 Non-Final OA 22d Pending Jun 21, 2023
18335194 Pet Food Compositions ZILBERING, ASSAF 1792 §103 Non-Final OA 4d overdue Pending Jun 15, 2023
18321970 Pet Food Compositions LI, CHANGQING 1791 §103 Non-Final OA 20d Pending May 23, 2023
18321563 Pet Food Compositions MCINTOSH III, TRAVISS C 1693 Other Non-Final OA 28d Pending May 22, 2023
18248791 Pet Food Compositions SHELLHAMMER, JAMES PAUL 1793 §103 Non-Final OA 31d overdue Pending Apr 12, 2023
18087426 Methods and Compositions for Diagnosis and Treatment of Disorders in Pets JOHANNSEN, DIANA B 1682 §101 Final Rejection 13d Pending Dec 22, 2022
17388393 System and Method for Determining Caloric Requirements of an Animal WHALEY, PABLO S 3619 §112 Non-Final OA 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 Other Non-Final OA 33d Pending Jul 23, 2021

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