Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Tata Consumer Products Limited is addressing 2 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These matters are split between 2 distinct examiners and the same number of distinct art units. This indicates that the company's current patent applications are being evaluated by multiple specialized units within the patent office. This distribution requires the company to manage two separate prosecution tracks simultaneously.
Axtell, Ashley is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, with 1 pending office action. With 2 pending actions and two distinct examiners, the workload is evenly divided, with each examiner managing one action. This spread across different art units and examiners requires the company to adapt its strategy to the specific requirements of each technical group. Practitioners should monitor the distinct approaches of these examiners to identify any variations in prosecution style.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| AXTELL, ASHLEY | 1 | 13.2% | +25.7% |
| STULII, VERA | 1 | 32.7% | +24.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18688349 | METHODOLOGY FOR OBTAINING ROLLABLE AND SHELF STABLE PURE MILLET FLOUR | AXTELL, ASHLEY | — |
| 17435796 | METHOD FOR MAKING TEA CUBES USING MICRONIZED TEA AND TEA CUBES MADE BY THE METHOD | STULII, VERA | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18688349 | METHODOLOGY FOR OBTAINING ROLLABLE AND SHELF STABLE PURE MILLET FLOUR | AXTELL, ASHLEY | — |
| 17435796 | METHOD FOR MAKING TEA CUBES USING MICRONIZED TEA AND TEA CUBES MADE BY THE METHOD | STULII, VERA | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1792 | 1 |
| 1791 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18688349 | METHODOLOGY FOR OBTAINING ROLLABLE AND SHELF STABLE PURE MILLET FLOUR | AXTELL, ASHLEY | 1792 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 29, 2024 |
| 17435796 | METHOD FOR MAKING TEA CUBES USING MICRONIZED TEA AND TEA CUBES MADE BY THE METHOD | STULII, VERA | 1791 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 02, 2021 |
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Start Free TrialTata Consumer Products Limited has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Ashley Axtell has the most, with 1 of Tata Consumer Products Limited's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
