Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
6 pending office actions • 3 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 21 patents granted in the last 365 days
Kraft Foods Group Brands LLC maintains 6 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials sector. These matters are distributed among 4 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units, showing a moderate level of concentration in the examination process. The presence of multiple examiners across several art units suggests that the company's food-related chemical patents are being scrutinized by a variety of technical experts.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is JACOBSON, MICHELE LYNN, who manages 2 busiest examiner pending office actions. This examiner handles a portion of the company's total pending workload, while the remaining actions are split among the other examiners. This concentration with a single examiner provides a degree of predictability for a part of the portfolio, though the majority of applications still require individualized attention.
With 3 distinct art units involved, the prosecution strategy must account for the specific guidelines and prior art databases used by different groups within the USPTO. The 6 pending office actions represent a significant active pipeline that is currently being funneled through a relatively small group of 4 examiners. This ratio suggests that the company may experience some overlap in examiner perspectives, even as they navigate different technical units.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 3 (50%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (17%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (17%) |
| No statute on record | 1 (17%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| JACOBSON, MICHELE LYNN | 2 | 28.0% | +32.9% |
| NGUYEN, THANH H | 2 | 18.5% | +34.3% |
| LIU, DEBORAH YANG-HAO | 1 | 8.9% | +12.3% |
| GERLA, STEPHANIE RAE | 1 | 16.7% | +33.0% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18563086 | PLANT-BASED CHEESE PRODUCT AND METHOD OF MAKING A PLANT-BASED CHEESE PRODUCT | JACOBSON, MICHELE LYNN | 97d 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 | — |
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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18563086 | PLANT-BASED CHEESE PRODUCT AND METHOD OF MAKING A PLANT-BASED CHEESE PRODUCT | JACOBSON, MICHELE LYNN | 97d 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 | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1791 | 2 |
| 1793 | 2 |
| 1792 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18698946 | PLANT-BASED CHEESE PRODUCT AND METHOD OF MAKING A PLANT-BASED CHEESE PRODUCT | LIU, DEBORAH YANG-HAO | 1791 | §103§112DP | 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 |
| 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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