Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
54 pending office actions • 17 art units • 39 examiners • 0 of 54 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 23 patents granted in the last 365 days
Suntory Holdings Limited has 57 pending office actions in Chemistry & Materials. The portfolio spans 39 distinct examiners and 16 distinct art units, reflecting broad distribution across examination personnel and technical groups. That structure can create varied procedural and substantive issues across related filings.
STULII, VERA is the busiest examiner, with 5 pending matters. The leading examiner therefore represents only one part of a much wider prosecution network. Counsel may benefit from centralized claim-position guidance, supported by matter-level adjustments for the different examiners and art units involved.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 15 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 15 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 9 (17%) |
| §103 only | 23 (43%) |
| §102 only | 1 (2%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 3 (6%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 18 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| STULII, VERA | 5 | 32.7% | +24.9% |
| MERRIAM, ANDREW E | 3 | 28.3% | +33.9% |
| YOO, HONG THI | 3 | 46.0% | +25.3% |
| LIU, DEBORAH YANG-HAO | 3 | 8.9% | +12.3% |
| KOHLER, STEPHANIE A | 2 | 32.3% | +31.4% |
| LACHICA, ERICSON M | 2 | 29.8% | +35.2% |
| MORENO, LARK JULIA | 2 | 0.0% | +0.0% |
| MORNHINWEG, JEFFREY P | 2 | 36.7% | +32.2% |
| HAWKINS, AMANDA SALATA | 2 | 15.4% | +40.9% |
| WOODWORTH, II, ALLAN J | 1 | 38.5% | +39.7% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18287123 | BLOOD SUGAR CONSTITUTION DETERMINATION DEVICE, BLOOD SUGAR CONSTITUTION DETERMINATION METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM | LAM, ELIZA ANNE | 111d overdue |
| 18022888 | BEER-FLAVORED BEVERAGE | LIU, DEBORAH YANG-HAO | 73d overdue |
| 18265546 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM | LAGOY, KYRA RAND | 3d overdue |
| 18631814 | FUNCTIONAL COMPONENT-CONTAINING BEVERAGE FILLED IN SPRAYING CONTAINER | MORENO, LARK JULIA | 8d |
| 18567883 | SWEETENER COMPOSITION | MORNHINWEG, JEFFREY P | 8d |
| 18029279 | CONTAINER-PACKED CARBONATED BEVERAGE | YOO, HONG THI | 8d |
| 17800460 | METHOD FOR EXTRACTING MINERAL FROM ACTIVATED CARBON IN PLANT-DERIVED RAW MATERIAL | HAWKINS, AMANDA SALATA | 23d |
| 18037501 | NON-ALCOHOLIC BEER-TASTE BEVERAGE | LIU, DEBORAH YANG-HAO | 26d |
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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17919828 | BEER-TASTE BEVERAGE | STULII, VERA | 147d overdue |
| 18022888 | BEER-FLAVORED BEVERAGE | LIU, DEBORAH YANG-HAO | 73d overdue |
| 18567883 | SWEETENER COMPOSITION | MORNHINWEG, JEFFREY P | 8d |
| 18029279 | CONTAINER-PACKED CARBONATED BEVERAGE | YOO, HONG THI | 8d |
| 18270096 | ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE CONTAINING FRUIT JUICE | STULII, VERA | 14d |
| 17800460 | METHOD FOR EXTRACTING MINERAL FROM ACTIVATED CARBON IN PLANT-DERIVED RAW MATERIAL | HAWKINS, AMANDA SALATA | 23d |
| 18037501 | NON-ALCOHOLIC BEER-TASTE BEVERAGE | LIU, DEBORAH YANG-HAO | 26d |
| 18710341 | BEER-FLAVORED BEVERAGE | MORNHINWEG, JEFFREY P | 36d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1791 | 17 |
| 1793 | 10 |
| 1792 | 10 |
| 3791 | 2 |
| 3622 | 1 |
| 3686 | 1 |
| 3792 | 1 |
| 2426 | 1 |
| 3625 | 1 |
| 1663 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19123460 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM | WOODWORTH, II, ALLAN J | 3622 | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 23, 2025 |
| 19123471 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM | COVINGTON, AMANDA R | 3686 | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 23, 2025 |
| 19122826 | BIOSIGNAL MEASUREMENT DEVICE | HUSSAINI, ATTIYA SAYYADA | 3792 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 21, 2025 |
| 19116003 | STREAMING APPARATUS, STREAMING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM | FAN, HUA | 2426 | §101§102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 27, 2025 |
| 19100243 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM | TORRES CHANZA, GABRIEL JOSE | 3625 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 31, 2025 |
| 18875621 | METHOD OF SCREENING FOR STEVIA PLANT | MEADOWS, CHRISTINA L | 1663 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 16, 2024 |
| 18872386 | SOUND RECORDING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, SOUND RECORDING METHOD, AND PROGRAM | FERNANDES, PATRICK M | 3791 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 06, 2024 |
| 18871973 | PRINTING SYSTEM AND PRINTING METHOD | MCMILLION, TRACEY M | 2853 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 05, 2024 |
| 18870048 | BEER-TASTE BEVERAGE | KOHLER, STEPHANIE A | 1791 | §103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 27, 2024 |
| 18870067 | BEER-TASTE BEVERAGE | KOHLER, STEPHANIE A | 1791 | §103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 27, 2024 |
| 18852842 | PACKAGE IN WHICH AQUEOUS ASCORBIC ACID SOLUTION IS CONTAINED | KIM, SUN U | 1772 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 30, 2024 |
| 18852025 | BEER TASTE BEVERAGE | KERSHAW, KELLY P | 1791 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 27, 2024 |
| 18846002 | BEER-FLAVORED BEVERAGE | O'HERN, BRENT T | 1793 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 11, 2024 |
| 18841497 | BEVERAGE CONTAINING ERIOCITRIN AND JUICE | SILVERMAN, JANICE Y | 1792 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 26, 2024 |
| 17768633 | NON-ALCOHOLIC BEER-LIKE BEVERAGE | JACOBSON, MICHELE LYNN | 1793 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 22, 2024 |
| 18730561 | W/O/W EMULSION CONTAINING INOSITOL AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME | JUSTICE, GINA CHIEUN YU | 1617 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 19, 2024 |
| 18727439 | BEVERAGE CONTAINING COMPONENT DERIVED FROM WOODEN CONTAINER | LACHICA, ERICSON M | 1792 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 09, 2024 |
| 18724717 | LOW SWEETNESS ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE CONTAINING GIN | MERRIAM, ANDREW E | 1791 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 27, 2024 |
| 18724793 | PACKAGED CARBONATED ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE CONTAINING GIN AND PRODUCTION METHOD THEREFOR | GWARTNEY, ELIZABETH A | — | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 27, 2024 |
| 18724454 | BEVERAGE CONTAINING STEVIOL GLYCOSIDES | WATTS, JENNA A | — | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 26, 2024 |
| 18723971 | LOW-BRIX WINE-FLAVOURED BEVERAGE | MERRIAM, ANDREW E | 1791 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 25, 2024 |
| 18721314 | BEER-FLAVORED BEVERAGE | MORENO, LARK JULIA | 1793 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 18, 2024 |
| 18720113 | WINE-FLAVOURED BEVERAGE | MERRIAM, ANDREW E | 1791 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 14, 2024 |
| 18719427 | BEER-TASTE BEVERAGE | SHELLHAMMER, JAMES PAUL | 1793 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 13, 2024 |
| 18712966 | ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE CONTAINING ETHYL PALMITATE | BEKKER, KELLY JO | 1792 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 23, 2024 |
| 18710341 | BEER-FLAVORED BEVERAGE | MORNHINWEG, JEFFREY P | 1793 | §103 | Final Rejection | 36d | Pending | May 15, 2024 |
| 18708426 | COMPOSITION FOR INHIBITING HISTAMINE-N-METHYLTRANSFERASE | HSU, GRACE CHING | 1627 | §102DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 08, 2024 |
| 18631814 | FUNCTIONAL COMPONENT-CONTAINING BEVERAGE FILLED IN SPRAYING CONTAINER | MORENO, LARK JULIA | 1793 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 8d | Pending | Apr 10, 2024 |
| 18699069 | COMPOSITION CONTAINING SESAMIN AND ERGOTHIONEINE OR SALT THEREOF | MOU, LIYUAN | 1628 | §101§103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 05, 2024 |
| 18691270 | COFFEE BEANS AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING COFFEE BEANS | YOO, HONG THI | 1792 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 12, 2024 |
| 18294355 | COFFEE BEAN EXTRACT WITH IMPROVED FLAVOR, FOOD OR BEVERAGE, PACKAGED BEVERAGE AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING COFFEE BEAN EXTRACT | CHAWLA, JYOTI | 1791 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 01, 2024 |
| 18572421 | METHOD OF PRODUCING PROCESSED FOOD | LIU, DEBORAH YANG-HAO | 1791 | §103 | Final Rejection | 56d | Pending | Dec 20, 2023 |
| 18572400 | PROCESSED FOOD PRODUCT | ZILBERING, ASSAF | 1792 | §102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 20, 2023 |
| 18567883 | SWEETENER COMPOSITION | MORNHINWEG, JEFFREY P | 1793 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 8d | Pending | Dec 07, 2023 |
| 18557605 | BEVERAGES | GERLA, STEPHANIE RAE | 1791 | §103 | Final Rejection | 16d | Pending | Oct 27, 2023 |
| 18287123 | BLOOD SUGAR CONSTITUTION DETERMINATION DEVICE, BLOOD SUGAR CONSTITUTION DETERMINATION METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM | LAM, ELIZA ANNE | 3681 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | 111d overdue | Pending | Oct 16, 2023 |
| 18270096 | ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE CONTAINING FRUIT JUICE | STULII, VERA | 1791 | §103 | Final Rejection | 14d | Pending | Jun 28, 2023 |
| 18269352 | FRUIT JUICE-CONTAINING UNDILUTED SAKE | STULII, VERA | 1791 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 23, 2023 |
| 18268512 | BEVERAGE CONTAINING QUASSIN | STULII, VERA | 1791 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 20, 2023 |
| 18265551 | MENSTRUATION-RELATED INFORMATION OUTPUT APPARATUS, LEARNING APPARATUS, LEARNING INFORMATION PRODUCING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM | GOMES, SRISTI DIVINA | 3791 | §101§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 06, 2023 |
| 18265546 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM | LAGOY, KYRA RAND | 3685 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | 3d overdue | Pending | Jun 06, 2023 |
| 18037501 | NON-ALCOHOLIC BEER-TASTE BEVERAGE | LIU, DEBORAH YANG-HAO | 1791 | §103 | Final Rejection | 26d | Pending | May 17, 2023 |
| 18029279 | CONTAINER-PACKED CARBONATED BEVERAGE | YOO, HONG THI | 1792 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 8d | Pending | Mar 29, 2023 |
| 18022888 | BEER-FLAVORED BEVERAGE | LIU, DEBORAH YANG-HAO | 1791 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 73d overdue | Pending | Feb 23, 2023 |
| 18012475 | NON-ALCOHOLIC BEER-FLAVORED BEVERAGE | STULII, VERA | 1791 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 22, 2022 |
| 18010688 | BEER-TASTE BEVERAGE | MCCLAIN, TYNESHA L. | 1793 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 15, 2022 |
| 18010352 | BEER-FLAVORED BEVERAGE | LACHICA, ERICSON M | 1792 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 14, 2022 |
| 17925729 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING ALCOHOL-CONTAINING GREEN COFFEE BEANS | YOO, HONG THI | 1792 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 16, 2022 |
| 17919828 | BEER-TASTE BEVERAGE | STULII, VERA | 1791 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 147d overdue | Pending | Oct 19, 2022 |
| 17916934 | TEA-FRAGRANCE-IMPARTING LIQUID COMPOSITION HAVING GREEN LAVER SCENT | NGUYEN, THANH H | 1792 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 04, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialSuntory Holdings Limited has 54 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 17 art units and 39 examiners.
Vera Stulii has the most, with 5 of Suntory Holdings Limited's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
