Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Steuben Foods, Inc. has 2 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are assigned to 2 distinct examiners across 2 distinct art units. This one-to-one ratio of examiners to art units suggests that each pending matter is being evaluated in a different specialized environment. For the practitioner, this means that the prosecution of the 2 pending office actions must be managed as two separate technical tracks.
RODGERS, ARIEL M is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, with 1 pending office action. Given that there are 2 pending office actions and 2 distinct examiners, each examiner is responsible for exactly one action. This distribution requires the company to manage two separate prosecution strategies simultaneously within the chemistry field. The presence of 2 distinct art units further confirms that the subject matter is being reviewed by different specialized groups. Practitioners must be careful to maintain consistency across the 2 distinct examiners while addressing the specific technical requirements of each art unit. This structure indicates a diversified materials portfolio where each pending action faces a unique examination path.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (67%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SMALLEY, JAMES N | 1 | 70.7% | -9.8% |
| RODGERS, ARIEL M | 1 | 15.4% | +26.9% |
| LI, CHANGQING | 1 | 29.2% | +33.1% |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18402707 | HYDROLYSATE COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR PRODUCING THEREOF | RODGERS, ARIEL M | 43d overdue |
| 17551163 | NATIVE EDESTIN PROTEIN ISOLATE AND USE AS A TEXTURIZING INGREDIENT | LI, CHANGQING | 26d overdue |
| 19410737 | TWO-PART PLUG ASSEMBLY FOR A SPOUT | SMALLEY, JAMES N | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18402707 | HYDROLYSATE COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR PRODUCING THEREOF | RODGERS, ARIEL M | 43d overdue |
| 17551163 | NATIVE EDESTIN PROTEIN ISOLATE AND USE AS A TEXTURIZING INGREDIENT | LI, CHANGQING | 26d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3733 | 1 |
| 1792 | 1 |
| 1791 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19410737 | TWO-PART PLUG ASSEMBLY FOR A SPOUT | SMALLEY, JAMES N | 3733 | §102§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 05, 2025 |
| 18402707 | HYDROLYSATE COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR PRODUCING THEREOF | RODGERS, ARIEL M | 1792 | §103 | Final Rejection | 43d overdue | Pending | Jan 02, 2024 |
| 17551163 | NATIVE EDESTIN PROTEIN ISOLATE AND USE AS A TEXTURIZING INGREDIENT | LI, CHANGQING | 1791 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 26d overdue | Pending | Dec 14, 2021 |
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Start Free TrialSteuben Foods, Inc. has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 3 examiners.
James N Smalley has the most, with 1 of Steuben Foods, Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
