Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
10 pending office actions • 8 art units • 10 examiners • 0 of 10 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 58 patents granted in the last 365 days
PepsiCo Inc. currently has 10 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are spread across 8 distinct art units, reflecting a wide-ranging technical scope within the company's chemical and material science innovations. This high number of art units indicates that PepsiCo's filings are subject to a diverse array of examination standards and technical classifications.
The prosecution is handled by 10 distinct examiners, meaning every 1 of the 10 pending office actions is under the review of a different individual. ZEROUAL, OMAR is the busiest examiner, managing 1 pending office action. This degree of distribution, where each action has its own examiner, suggests that PepsiCo's patent strategy involves navigating a complex and fragmented landscape at the patent office. Practitioners must be prepared to coordinate 10 separate prosecution tracks, each with its own examiner preferences and art unit requirements. The breadth of this activity within the Chemistry & Materials sector underscores the importance of a comprehensive and adaptable legal strategy to ensure consistency across such a large and diverse set of pending applications.
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.
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.
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 | 33.5% | +39.7% |
| BYRD, UCHE SOWANDE | 1 | 22.6% | +26.7% |
| WAGGONER, TIMOTHY R | 1 | 71.6% | +7.7% |
| OJOFEITIMI, AYODEJI HARRY | 1 | 89.2% | +3.9% |
| SILVERMAN, JANICE Y | 1 | 36.7% | +53.8% |
| BEKKER, KELLY JO | 1 | 16.7% | +35.4% |
| LI, CHANGQING | 1 | 29.3% | +33.6% |
| HOPKINS, ROBERT A | 1 | 84.5% | +7.5% |
| KOHLER, STEPHANIE A | 1 | 31.9% | +31.1% |
| WUNDERLICH, ERWIN J | 1 | 42.3% | +40.2% |
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 |
| 18795942 | INTERNET OF THINGS DEVICE FOR PRODUCT DISTRIBUTION EQUIPMENT | BYRD, UCHE SOWANDE | — |
| 18429942 | CLEAR PROTEIN BEVERAGE ENHANCER | BEKKER, KELLY JO | — |
| 17804044 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR UV TREATMENT OF A VISCOUS FLUID | WUNDERLICH, ERWIN J | — |
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 |
| 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 | — |
| 17804044 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR UV TREATMENT OF A VISCOUS FLUID | WUNDERLICH, ERWIN J | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1792 | 2 |
| 1791 | 2 |
| 3628 | 1 |
| 3624 | 1 |
| 3655 | 1 |
| 3651 | 1 |
| 1776 | 1 |
| 3761 | 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 |
| 17804044 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR UV TREATMENT OF A VISCOUS FLUID | WUNDERLICH, ERWIN J | 3761 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 25, 2022 |
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