Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 04, 2026

Plantible Foods Inc.

Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Chemistry & Materials

2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready

Analysis

Plantible Foods Inc. currently maintains 2 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These matters are distributed among 2 distinct examiners, which introduces a variety of perspectives into the prosecution process. Furthermore, the company is active across 2 distinct art units, indicating that its pending intellectual property covers a broader technical range than a single-unit portfolio. This diversity requires the applicant to adapt to different examination environments simultaneously.

LIU, DEBORAH YANG-HAO is the busiest examiner for the company, overseeing 1 pending office action. This count of 1 is one of the 2 total pending actions for the firm. Because the workload is split across 2 different examiners and 2 different art units, the company must manage multiple prosecution tracks. This variety in examination requires a flexible strategy to address the unique requirements of each art unit and the individual preferences of the examiners involved in these 2 cases. Coordinating responses across these separate units is essential for maintaining portfolio consistency.

Written from this page's own data; every figure is computed from USPTO records and verified before publication.

Portfolio Summary

2
Total Pending OAs
1
Non-Final OAs
1
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

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.

0
Hard (0%)
2
Medium (100%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only2 (100%)

Industry Mix

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

2
Life Sciences
100% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
0
Mechanical / Eng
0% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% 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.

20 h
Manual time on pending OAs
4 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
7 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.2 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
LIU, DEBORAH YANG-HAO 1 8.9% +12.3%
REGLAS, GEORGIANA C 1 37.7% +36.1%

Hard Cases (1)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18121210 RIBULOSE-1,5-BISPHOSPHATE CARBOXYLATE-OXYGENASE (RUBISCO) PROTEIN ISOLATE COMPOSITIONS FOR PLANT-BASED EGG REPLACEMENT PRODUCTS AND PLANT-BASED MILK REPLACEMENT PRODUCTS LIU, DEBORAH YANG-HAO —

Interview Candidates (2)

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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18121210 RIBULOSE-1,5-BISPHOSPHATE CARBOXYLATE-OXYGENASE (RUBISCO) PROTEIN ISOLATE COMPOSITIONS FOR PLANT-BASED EGG REPLACEMENT PRODUCTS AND PLANT-BASED MILK REPLACEMENT PRODUCTS LIU, DEBORAH YANG-HAO —
17625468 PROCESS FOR ISOLATING A HIGH PURITY PROTEIN PREPARATION FROM PLANT MATERIAL AND PRODUCTS THEREOF REGLAS, GEORGIANA C —

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1791 1
1651 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18121210 RIBULOSE-1,5-BISPHOSPHATE CARBOXYLATE-OXYGENASE (RUBISCO) PROTEIN ISOLATE COMPOSITIONS FOR PLANT-BASED EGG REPLACEMENT PRODUCTS AND PLANT-BASED MILK REPLACEMENT PRODUCTS LIU, DEBORAH YANG-HAO 1791 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Mar 14, 2023
17625468 PROCESS FOR ISOLATING A HIGH PURITY PROTEIN PREPARATION FROM PLANT MATERIAL AND PRODUCTS THEREOF REGLAS, GEORGIANA C 1651 §103 Final Rejection — Pending Jan 07, 2022

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