Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Chemistry & Materials
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
House Foods Corporation has 3 pending office actions in Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals. The matters are assigned to 3 examiners and 3 art units, showing separate examination paths across the active docket.
STEINKE, SEAN JAMES is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. No examiner has a larger recorded allocation, so counsel should maintain application-specific tracking rather than rely on centralized examiner coordination.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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 |
|---|---|
| §102 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| STEINKE, SEAN JAMES | 1 | 12.5% | +42.9% |
| RODGERS, ARIEL M | 1 | 15.4% | +26.9% |
| WISTNER, SARAH CLINKSCALES | 1 | 26.7% | +73.0% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18028683 | EMULSIFIED COMPOSITION FOR SKIN | WISTNER, SARAH CLINKSCALES | 6d |
| 18730641 | EMULSIFIED COMPOSITION | STEINKE, SEAN JAMES | — |
| 18697189 | LIQUID EMULSION COMPOSITION | RODGERS, ARIEL M | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18028683 | EMULSIFIED COMPOSITION FOR SKIN | WISTNER, SARAH CLINKSCALES | 6d |
| 18730641 | EMULSIFIED COMPOSITION | STEINKE, SEAN JAMES | — |
| 18697189 | LIQUID EMULSION COMPOSITION | RODGERS, ARIEL M | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1613 | 1 |
| 1792 | 1 |
| 1616 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18730641 | EMULSIFIED COMPOSITION | STEINKE, SEAN JAMES | 1613 | §102§103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 19, 2024 |
| 18697189 | LIQUID EMULSION COMPOSITION | RODGERS, ARIEL M | 1792 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 29, 2024 |
| 18028683 | EMULSIFIED COMPOSITION FOR SKIN | WISTNER, SARAH CLINKSCALES | 1616 | §102§103§112Other | Non-Final OA | 6d | Pending | Mar 27, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialHouse Foods Corporation has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 3 examiners.
Sean James Steinke has the most, with 1 of House Foods Corporation's pending office actions.
Mostly Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals (USPTO Tech Center 1600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
