Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

UPSIDE FOODS, INC.

7 pending office actions • 5 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

7
Total Pending OAs
7
Non-Final OAs
0
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 7 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

2
Overdue
1
Due this week
3
Due this month
1
Due in next 60 days
0
Due later

Deadline Fire Line

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. 7 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (2)Due ≤ 7 days (1)Due ≤ 30 days (3)Due ≤ 60 days (1)

Case Difficulty Mix

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.

0
Hard (0%)
5
Medium (71%)
0
Easy (0%)
2
Unknown (29%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only5 (71%)
No statute on record2 (29%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

7
Life Sciences
100% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
0
Mechanical / Eng
0% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

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.

70 h
Manual time on pending OAs
14 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
24 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.6 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
MIANO, JOSEPH PAUL 1 37.9% +63.3%
SHELLHAMMER, JAMES PAUL 1 0.0% +0.0%
MCNEIL, JENNIFER C 1 23.5% +13.2%
TAKENAKA, RISA 1 15.4% +100.0%
MOLOYE, TITILAYO 1 63.4% +47.1%
YAMASAKI, ROBERT J 1 67.5% +42.9%
ESPERON, NATHAN GREGORY 1 41.2% +25.4%

Hard Cases (3)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18069768 SCALING UP MYOGENIC TISSUE: LATE PASSAGE MYOGENICITY TAKENAKA, RISA 7d
18458564 PLANT BASE/ANIMAL CELL HYBRID MEAT SUBSTITUTE SHELLHAMMER, JAMES PAUL 26d
18298019 VACUUM DRYING A COMESTIBLE CELL-BASED MEAT PRODUCT MCNEIL, JENNIFER C 26d

Interview Candidates (6)

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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17658009 GENERATION OF CELL-BASED PRODUCTS FOR CONSUMPTION THAT COMPRISE PROTEINS FROM EXOTIC, ENDANGERED, AND EXTINCT SPECIES YAMASAKI, ROBERT J 49d overdue
17558243 APPARATUSES AND SYSTEMS FOR PREPARING A MEAT PRODUCT ESPERON, NATHAN GREGORY 44d overdue
18069768 SCALING UP MYOGENIC TISSUE: LATE PASSAGE MYOGENICITY TAKENAKA, RISA 7d
18298019 VACUUM DRYING A COMESTIBLE CELL-BASED MEAT PRODUCT MCNEIL, JENNIFER C 26d
19300583 HEAT SHOCK INDUCIBLE CELLS AND THEIR MANUFACTURE AND USE MIANO, JOSEPH PAUL 29d
18060322 SUBSTRATES AND BIOREACTORS FOR PREPARING A COMESTIBLE MEAT PRODUCT MOLOYE, TITILAYO 33d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1793 2
1632 2
1631 1
1657 1
1799 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19300583 HEAT SHOCK INDUCIBLE CELLS AND THEIR MANUFACTURE AND USE MIANO, JOSEPH PAUL 1631 §103 Non-Final OA 29d Pending Aug 14, 2025
18458564 PLANT BASE/ANIMAL CELL HYBRID MEAT SUBSTITUTE SHELLHAMMER, JAMES PAUL 1793 §103 Non-Final OA 26d Pending Aug 30, 2023
18298019 VACUUM DRYING A COMESTIBLE CELL-BASED MEAT PRODUCT MCNEIL, JENNIFER C 1793 §103 Non-Final OA 26d Pending Apr 10, 2023
18069768 SCALING UP MYOGENIC TISSUE: LATE PASSAGE MYOGENICITY TAKENAKA, RISA 1632 Other Non-Final OA 7d Pending Dec 21, 2022
18060322 SUBSTRATES AND BIOREACTORS FOR PREPARING A COMESTIBLE MEAT PRODUCT MOLOYE, TITILAYO 1632 Other Non-Final OA 33d Pending Nov 30, 2022
17658009 GENERATION OF CELL-BASED PRODUCTS FOR CONSUMPTION THAT COMPRISE PROTEINS FROM EXOTIC, ENDANGERED, AND EXTINCT SPECIES YAMASAKI, ROBERT J 1657 §103 Non-Final OA 49d overdue Pending Apr 05, 2022
17558243 APPARATUSES AND SYSTEMS FOR PREPARING A MEAT PRODUCT ESPERON, NATHAN GREGORY 1799 §103 Non-Final OA 44d overdue Pending Dec 21, 2021

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