Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
10 pending office actions • 7 art units • 10 examiners • 0 of 10 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 56 patents granted in the last 365 days
PepsiCo Inc. is currently managing 10 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are distributed across 10 distinct examiners, showing a high level of diversification for the portfolio's personnel. The involvement of 7 distinct art units further indicates that the company's research is being evaluated across several specialized fields within the Chemistry & Materials sector. This distribution helps mitigate the risk associated with any single examiner's interpretation or departmental standard.
The busiest examiner, ZEROUAL, OMAR, is responsible for 1 pending office action, which is consistent with the decentralized nature of the 10 pending office actions currently active. This comparison between the 1 action handled by the busiest examiner and the 10 pending office actions total highlights that the portfolio is not concentrated in the hands of a few individuals. With 10 distinct examiners and 7 distinct art units engaged, the company is navigating a variety of technical standards. The busiest examiner's limited role ensures that the overall success of the Chemistry & Materials portfolio depends on a wide range of examiner reviews.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 7 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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. 7 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 | 8 (80%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (20%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ZEROUAL, OMAR | 1 | 33.6% | +39.6% |
| BYRD, UCHE SOWANDE | 1 | 22.7% | +26.1% |
| WAGGONER, TIMOTHY R | 1 | 71.7% | +7.6% |
| OJOFEITIMI, AYODEJI HARRY | 1 | 88.4% | -1.9% |
| SILVERMAN, JANICE Y | 1 | 37.6% | +53.0% |
| BEKKER, KELLY JO | 1 | 16.8% | +35.1% |
| LI, CHANGQING | 1 | 29.2% | +33.1% |
| HOPKINS, ROBERT A | 1 | 84.5% | +7.6% |
| KOHLER, STEPHANIE A | 1 | 32.3% | +31.4% |
| LIU, DEBORAH YANG-HAO | 1 | 8.9% | +12.3% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18359614 | AMBIENT FILLING SYSTEM AND METHOD | HOPKINS, ROBERT A | 9d |
| 18633732 | METHOD AND SYSTEM OF TOUCH-FREE VENDING | OJOFEITIMI, AYODEJI HARRY | 42d |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18479395 | MOUTHFEEL MODULATION IN REDUCED AND SUGAR-FREE BEVERAGES USING A BLEND OF PECTIN AND XANTHAN GUM | LI, CHANGQING | 2d overdue |
| 18194361 | METHODS OF MAKING SHELF STABLE AND READY TO DRINK PLANT PROTEIN BEVERAGES | LIU, DEBORAH YANG-HAO | 2d overdue |
| 18795942 | INTERNET OF THINGS DEVICE FOR PRODUCT DISTRIBUTION EQUIPMENT | BYRD, UCHE SOWANDE | — |
| 18429942 | CLEAR PROTEIN BEVERAGE ENHANCER | BEKKER, KELLY JO | — |
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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18590601 | STABILIZING SORBIC ACID IN BEVERAGE SYRUP | SILVERMAN, JANICE Y | 46d overdue |
| 18340546 | COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR IMPROVING TASTE OF NON-NUTRITIVE SWEETENERS | KOHLER, STEPHANIE A | 31d overdue |
| 18479395 | MOUTHFEEL MODULATION IN REDUCED AND SUGAR-FREE BEVERAGES USING A BLEND OF PECTIN AND XANTHAN GUM | LI, CHANGQING | 2d overdue |
| 18194361 | METHODS OF MAKING SHELF STABLE AND READY TO DRINK PLANT PROTEIN BEVERAGES | LIU, DEBORAH YANG-HAO | 2d overdue |
| 18951004 | AUTOMATED LOCAL DELIVERY CENTER | ZEROUAL, OMAR | 36d |
| 18795942 | INTERNET OF THINGS DEVICE FOR PRODUCT DISTRIBUTION EQUIPMENT | BYRD, UCHE SOWANDE | — |
| 18429942 | CLEAR PROTEIN BEVERAGE ENHANCER | BEKKER, KELLY JO | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1791 | 3 |
| 1792 | 2 |
| 3628 | 1 |
| 3624 | 1 |
| 3655 | 1 |
| 3651 | 1 |
| 1776 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18951004 | AUTOMATED LOCAL DELIVERY CENTER | ZEROUAL, OMAR | 3628 | §103 | Final Rejection | 36d | Pending | Nov 18, 2024 |
| 18795942 | INTERNET OF THINGS DEVICE FOR PRODUCT DISTRIBUTION EQUIPMENT | BYRD, UCHE SOWANDE | 3624 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 06, 2024 |
| 18734125 | BEVERAGE DISPENSING SYSTEM | WAGGONER, TIMOTHY R | 3655 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 05, 2024 |
| 18633732 | METHOD AND SYSTEM OF TOUCH-FREE VENDING | OJOFEITIMI, AYODEJI HARRY | 3651 | §103 | Final Rejection | 42d | Pending | Apr 12, 2024 |
| 18590601 | STABILIZING SORBIC ACID IN BEVERAGE SYRUP | SILVERMAN, JANICE Y | 1792 | §103 | Final Rejection | 46d overdue | Pending | Feb 28, 2024 |
| 18429942 | CLEAR PROTEIN BEVERAGE ENHANCER | BEKKER, KELLY JO | 1792 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 01, 2024 |
| 18479395 | MOUTHFEEL MODULATION IN REDUCED AND SUGAR-FREE BEVERAGES USING A BLEND OF PECTIN AND XANTHAN GUM | LI, CHANGQING | 1791 | §103 | Final Rejection | 2d overdue | Pending | Oct 02, 2023 |
| 18359614 | AMBIENT FILLING SYSTEM AND METHOD | HOPKINS, ROBERT A | 1776 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 9d | Pending | Jul 26, 2023 |
| 18340546 | COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR IMPROVING TASTE OF NON-NUTRITIVE SWEETENERS | KOHLER, STEPHANIE A | 1791 | §103 | Final Rejection | 31d overdue | Pending | Jun 23, 2023 |
| 18194361 | METHODS OF MAKING SHELF STABLE AND READY TO DRINK PLANT PROTEIN BEVERAGES | LIU, DEBORAH YANG-HAO | 1791 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 2d overdue | Pending | Mar 31, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialPepsiCo Inc. has 10 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 7 art units and 10 examiners.
Omar Zeroual has the most, with 1 of PepsiCo Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
