Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Kraft Foods Group Brands LLC

6 pending office actions • 2 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 20 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

6
Total Pending OAs
4
Non-Final OAs
2
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 6 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

4
Overdue
1
Due this week
1
Due this month
0
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. 6 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (4)Due ≤ 7 days (1)Due ≤ 30 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.

0
Hard (0%)
6
Medium (100%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only6 (100%)

Industry Mix

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

5
Life Sciences
83% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
1
Mechanical / Eng
17% 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.

60 h
Manual time on pending OAs
12 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
21 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.5 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
LIU, DEBORAH YANG-HAO 3 2.6% -3.2%
VOLZ, ELIZABETH J 1 66.6% +18.8%
STULII, VERA 1 32.5% +24.7%
GERLA, STEPHANIE RAE 1 11.1% +22.5%

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
17837632 Plant-Based Cream Cheese Product and Method of Making a Plant-Based Cream Cheese Product LIU, DEBORAH YANG-HAO 67d overdue
17733732 PLANT-BASED CHEESE PRODUCT AND METHOD OF MAKING A PLANT-BASED CHEESE PRODUCT LIU, DEBORAH YANG-HAO 15d overdue
18081189 Plant-Based Cream Cheese Product and Method of Making a Plant-Based Cream Cheese Product LIU, DEBORAH YANG-HAO 1d overdue
17094581 Low Water Coffee And Tea Beverage Concentrates And Methods For Making The Same GERLA, STEPHANIE RAE 6d

Interview Candidates (3)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18627953 Dry-Powdered Cheese Compositions with Naturally-Derived Color Blends, Method of Making and Cheese Product STULII, VERA 11d overdue
17094581 Low Water Coffee And Tea Beverage Concentrates And Methods For Making The Same GERLA, STEPHANIE RAE 6d
18907250 Container and Lid VOLZ, ELIZABETH J 28d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1791 5
3733 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18907250 Container and Lid VOLZ, ELIZABETH J 3733 §103 Non-Final OA 28d Pending Oct 04, 2024
18627953 Dry-Powdered Cheese Compositions with Naturally-Derived Color Blends, Method of Making and Cheese Product STULII, VERA 1791 §103 Non-Final OA 11d overdue Pending Apr 05, 2024
18081189 Plant-Based Cream Cheese Product and Method of Making a Plant-Based Cream Cheese Product LIU, DEBORAH YANG-HAO 1791 §103 Final Rejection 1d overdue Pending Dec 14, 2022
17837632 Plant-Based Cream Cheese Product and Method of Making a Plant-Based Cream Cheese Product LIU, DEBORAH YANG-HAO 1791 §103 Non-Final OA 67d overdue Pending Jun 10, 2022
17733732 PLANT-BASED CHEESE PRODUCT AND METHOD OF MAKING A PLANT-BASED CHEESE PRODUCT LIU, DEBORAH YANG-HAO 1791 §103 Final Rejection 15d overdue Pending Apr 29, 2022
17094581 Low Water Coffee And Tea Beverage Concentrates And Methods For Making The Same GERLA, STEPHANIE RAE 1791 §103 Non-Final OA 6d Pending Nov 10, 2020

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