Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Papa John'S International Inc. maintains a company patent portfolio focused on the Chemistry & Materials technology area. The current prosecution landscape for this entity is highly concentrated, featuring 1 pending office action. This single matter is being handled by 1 distinct examiner within 1 distinct art unit, indicating a narrow focus for the company's active intellectual property efforts. Practitioners should note that such a centralized structure often results in a very specific examiner interaction pattern for the applicant.
The busiest examiner identified in the portfolio is TRAN, LIEN THUY. This examiner is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Because the total number of pending office actions is 1, this individual manages the entirety of the company's current workload before the patent office. The alignment of 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit suggests that the company's current legal strategy is focused on a specific technical niche. This concentration means that the outcome of the company's active prosecution is currently dependent on the review of this 1 official within the Chemistry & Materials sector.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 1 (100%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TRAN, LIEN THUY | 1 | 28.7% | +26.5% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17650454 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING TOPPINGS ON OPPOSITE SIDES OF A BAKED FOOD ITEM | TRAN, LIEN THUY | 7d |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17650454 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING TOPPINGS ON OPPOSITE SIDES OF A BAKED FOOD ITEM | TRAN, LIEN THUY | 7d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1793 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17650454 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING TOPPINGS ON OPPOSITE SIDES OF A BAKED FOOD ITEM | TRAN, LIEN THUY | 1793 | §103 | Final Rejection | 7d | Pending | Feb 09, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialPapa John'S International Inc. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Lien Thuy Tran has the most, with 1 of Papa John'S International Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
