Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 17, 2026

Kraft Foods Group Brands LLC

8 pending office actions • 3 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 8 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 22 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

8
Total Pending OAs
4
Non-Final OAs
4
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

2
Overdue
1
Due this week
0
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. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (2)Due ≤ 7 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 (12%)
4
Medium (50%)
2
Easy (25%)
1
Unknown (12%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only4 (50%)
Double-patenting only2 (25%)
Multi-statute (no §101)1 (12%)
No statute on record1 (12%)

Industry Mix

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

7
Life Sciences
88% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
0
Mechanical / Eng
0% of docket
1
Business / Other
12% 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.

80 h
Manual time on pending OAs
16 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
28 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.7 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
LIU, DEBORAH YANG-HAO 2 7.1% +15.0%
JACOBSON, MICHELE LYNN 2 26.6% +32.4%
NGUYEN, THANH H 2 18.4% +34.4%
MORNHINWEG, JEFFREY P 1 36.3% +33.5%
GERLA, STEPHANIE RAE 1 15.9% +31.1%

Hard Cases (7)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 7 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18563086 PLANT-BASED CHEESE PRODUCT AND METHOD OF MAKING A PLANT-BASED CHEESE PRODUCT JACOBSON, MICHELE LYNN 97d 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
18698946 PLANT-BASED CHEESE PRODUCT AND METHOD OF MAKING A PLANT-BASED CHEESE PRODUCT LIU, DEBORAH YANG-HAO
18087552 Plant-Based Cheese Product And Method Of Making A Plant-Based Cheese Product JACOBSON, MICHELE LYNN
17504820 PACKAGED FOOD PRODUCT AND PROCESS AND PACKAGING THEREFOR NGUYEN, THANH H
16690713 Container for Dispensing Multiple Doses of a Concentrated Liquid NGUYEN, THANH H

Interview Candidates (8)

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
18563086 PLANT-BASED CHEESE PRODUCT AND METHOD OF MAKING A PLANT-BASED CHEESE PRODUCT JACOBSON, MICHELE LYNN 97d 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
18892147 Processed Cheese With Cultured Dairy Components And Method Of Manufacturing MORNHINWEG, JEFFREY P
18698946 PLANT-BASED CHEESE PRODUCT AND METHOD OF MAKING A PLANT-BASED CHEESE PRODUCT LIU, DEBORAH YANG-HAO
18087552 Plant-Based Cheese Product And Method Of Making A Plant-Based Cheese Product JACOBSON, MICHELE LYNN
17504820 PACKAGED FOOD PRODUCT AND PROCESS AND PACKAGING THEREFOR NGUYEN, THANH H
16690713 Container for Dispensing Multiple Doses of a Concentrated Liquid NGUYEN, THANH H

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1791 3
1793 2
1792 2

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18892147 Processed Cheese With Cultured Dairy Components And Method Of Manufacturing MORNHINWEG, JEFFREY P DP Non-Final OA Pending Sep 20, 2024
18698946 PLANT-BASED CHEESE PRODUCT AND METHOD OF MAKING A PLANT-BASED CHEESE PRODUCT LIU, DEBORAH YANG-HAO 1791 DP Non-Final OA Pending Apr 05, 2024
18563086 PLANT-BASED CHEESE PRODUCT AND METHOD OF MAKING A PLANT-BASED CHEESE PRODUCT JACOBSON, MICHELE LYNN 1793 §103 Final Rejection 97d overdue Pending Nov 21, 2023
18087552 Plant-Based Cheese Product And Method Of Making A Plant-Based Cheese Product JACOBSON, MICHELE LYNN 1793 §103 Final Rejection Pending Dec 22, 2022
18081189 Plant-Based Cream Cheese Product and Method of Making a Plant-Based Cream Cheese Product LIU, DEBORAH YANG-HAO 1791 §103Other Final Rejection 1d overdue Pending Dec 14, 2022
17504820 PACKAGED FOOD PRODUCT AND PROCESS AND PACKAGING THEREFOR NGUYEN, THANH H 1792 §103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Oct 19, 2021
17094581 Low Water Coffee And Tea Beverage Concentrates And Methods For Making The Same GERLA, STEPHANIE RAE 1791 §103 Final Rejection 6d Pending Nov 10, 2020
16690713 Container for Dispensing Multiple Doses of a Concentrated Liquid NGUYEN, THANH H 1792 Other Non-Final OA Pending Nov 21, 2019

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