Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Sargento Cheese Inc. has 2 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. Both of these matters are assigned to 1 distinct examiner, STEPHANIE A KOHLER. This creates a high level of consistency in the examination process for the company's current filings. The portfolio is entirely contained within 1 distinct art unit, reinforcing the technical focus of the pending applications. KOHLER is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, holding 2 pending office actions.
For the practitioner, this concentration means that arguments and evidence presented in one case are likely to be highly relevant to the other. Having 2 pending office actions with a single examiner in 1 art unit allows for a more streamlined communication strategy. The applicant can focus on the specific examination style and technical understanding of STEPHANIE A KOHLER to advance both matters. This centralized prosecution profile reduces the need to adapt to multiple different examiner preferences. However, it also means that the company's current intellectual property success in this area is heavily dependent on the feedback from this one individual. The focus on the Chemistry & Materials sector within a single art unit suggests a very specific and consistent technical direction.
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.
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) | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KOHLER, STEPHANIE A | 2 | 32.3% | +31.4% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18658216 | Natural Cheese and Method for Making Natural Cheese with Specific Texture Attributes | KOHLER, STEPHANIE A | 26d |
| 18141032 | Natural Cheese and Method for Making Natural Cheese with Specific Texture Attributes | KOHLER, STEPHANIE 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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18658216 | Natural Cheese and Method for Making Natural Cheese with Specific Texture Attributes | KOHLER, STEPHANIE A | 26d |
| 18141032 | Natural Cheese and Method for Making Natural Cheese with Specific Texture Attributes | KOHLER, STEPHANIE A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1791 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18658216 | Natural Cheese and Method for Making Natural Cheese with Specific Texture Attributes | KOHLER, STEPHANIE A | 1791 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 26d | Pending | May 08, 2024 |
| 18141032 | Natural Cheese and Method for Making Natural Cheese with Specific Texture Attributes | KOHLER, STEPHANIE A | 1791 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 28, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialSargento Cheese Inc. has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Stephanie A Kohler has the most, with 2 of Sargento Cheese Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
