Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Planet A Foods GmbH is managing 1 pending office action in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. The current prosecution activity is concentrated within a single technical and administrative path. This suggests that the company's intellectual property efforts are currently focused on a specific innovation rather than a diverse set of technologies.
ELIZABETH A GWARTNEY is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, overseeing 1 pending office action. This single action represents the total pending workload for the company. The presence of 1 distinct examiner and 1 pending action shows that the company's immediate patent office interactions are limited to one reviewer. Practitioners should focus on the specific examination style of this individual, as they currently control the entirety of the company's pending workload in the Chemistry & Materials sector.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GWARTNEY, ELIZABETH A | 1 | 36.0% | +34.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18579268 | FLAVOR COMPOSITION | GWARTNEY, ELIZABETH A | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18579268 | FLAVOR COMPOSITION | GWARTNEY, ELIZABETH A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1759 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18579268 | FLAVOR COMPOSITION | GWARTNEY, ELIZABETH A | 1759 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 12, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialPlanet A Foods GmbH has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Elizabeth A Gwartney has the most, with 1 of Planet A Foods GmbH's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
