Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 14, 2026

Planted Foods AG

5 pending office actions • 3 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready

Portfolio Summary

5
Total Pending OAs
5
Non-Final OAs
0
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

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.

0
Overdue
0
Due this week
1
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
0
Due later

Case Difficulty Mix

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.

2
Hard (40%)
3
Medium (60%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only2 (40%)
§102 only1 (20%)
Multi-statute (no §101)2 (40%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

4
Life Sciences
80% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
0
Mechanical / Eng
0% of docket
1
Business / Other
20% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

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.

50 h
Manual time on pending OAs
10 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
18 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.4 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
O'HERN, BRENT T 1 78.2% +20.1%
GWARTNEY, ELIZABETH A 1 36.1% +35.0%
LEBLANC, KATHERINE DEGUIRE 1 34.5% +36.1%
LIU, DEBORAH YANG-HAO 1 7.1% +15.0%
DIVIESTI, KARLA ISOBEL 1 4.2% +25.0%

Hard Cases (3)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17910067 Method for Producing a Food Product DIVIESTI, KARLA ISOBEL 26d
18863061 APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING PLANT-BASED PROTEINACEOUS FOOD ITEMS, SET OF FOOD ITEMS AND METHOD OF PROCESSING O'HERN, BRENT T
18441338 FOODSTUFFS AND METHODS FOR MAKING THE SAME LIU, DEBORAH YANG-HAO

Interview Candidates (5)

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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17910067 Method for Producing a Food Product DIVIESTI, KARLA ISOBEL 26d
18863061 APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING PLANT-BASED PROTEINACEOUS FOOD ITEMS, SET OF FOOD ITEMS AND METHOD OF PROCESSING O'HERN, BRENT T
18713848 METHOD OF MAKING A FIBROUS FUNGUS-CONTAINING FOOD PRODUCT AND PRODUCTS THEREOF GWARTNEY, ELIZABETH A
18700150 FREEZE STRUCTURED AND ENZYMATICALLY CROSSLINKED FOOD MATERIALS LEBLANC, KATHERINE DEGUIRE
18441338 FOODSTUFFS AND METHODS FOR MAKING THE SAME LIU, DEBORAH YANG-HAO

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1791 2
1759 1
1792 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18863061 APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING PLANT-BASED PROTEINACEOUS FOOD ITEMS, SET OF FOOD ITEMS AND METHOD OF PROCESSING O'HERN, BRENT T §102§103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Nov 05, 2024
18713848 METHOD OF MAKING A FIBROUS FUNGUS-CONTAINING FOOD PRODUCT AND PRODUCTS THEREOF GWARTNEY, ELIZABETH A 1759 §103 Non-Final OA Pending May 28, 2024
18700150 FREEZE STRUCTURED AND ENZYMATICALLY CROSSLINKED FOOD MATERIALS LEBLANC, KATHERINE DEGUIRE 1791 §102 Non-Final OA Pending Apr 10, 2024
18441338 FOODSTUFFS AND METHODS FOR MAKING THE SAME LIU, DEBORAH YANG-HAO 1791 §103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Feb 14, 2024
17910067 Method for Producing a Food Product DIVIESTI, KARLA ISOBEL 1792 §103 Non-Final OA 26d Pending Sep 08, 2022

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