Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Sargento Foods Inc. currently has 1 pending office action in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This 1 pending office action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, ARIELLA MACHNESS. The prosecution is localized within 1 distinct art unit, which indicates a focused technical classification for the company's current pending application.
ARIELLA MACHNESS is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, as she is responsible for the 1 pending office action currently active. Because there is only 1 distinct examiner involved, the entire progress of the company's pending intellectual property is dependent on this individual's assessment. The concentration of the workload into 1 distinct art unit means that the company's current chemistry innovation is being evaluated against a specific set of departmental standards.
For a practitioner, this data shows a concentrated prosecution environment with no opportunity to compare examiner behavior across different applications. The strategy for this portfolio is currently tied to the specific tendencies of 1 distinct examiner and the procedural norms of 1 distinct art unit. With only 1 pending office action, the company's immediate patent office activity is limited to this single point of contact.
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) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MACHNESS, ARIELLA | 1 | 61.5% | +27.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18191344 | Nozzle Height Adjustment Apparatus and Method for an Extruder Assembly | MACHNESS, ARIELLA | 16d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18191344 | Nozzle Height Adjustment Apparatus and Method for an Extruder Assembly | MACHNESS, ARIELLA | 16d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1743 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18191344 | Nozzle Height Adjustment Apparatus and Method for an Extruder Assembly | MACHNESS, ARIELLA | 1743 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 16d overdue | Pending | Mar 28, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialSargento Foods Inc. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Ariella Machness has the most, with 1 of Sargento Foods Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
