Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
VALIO OY maintains 3 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are handled by 3 distinct examiners across 3 distinct art units. GWARTNEY, ELIZABETH A is the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action, reflecting an even distribution of the workload across the 3 examiners and 3 art units.
The distribution of 3 pending office actions among 3 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units suggests that the company's filings are being reviewed independently. Each of the 3 distinct examiners is responsible for 1 pending office action, so no single individual dominates the prosecution workload. The involvement of 3 distinct art units indicates that the applications fall into different specialized categories within the Chemistry & Materials field.
Practitioners must manage different examination styles across 3 distinct art units to resolve the 3 pending office actions. Since GWARTNEY, ELIZABETH A is the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action, the strategy should be tailored to the specific expectations of each of the 3 distinct examiners. This balanced workload across 3 art units ensures that the company's intellectual property pursuit is not limited to a single examination group.
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 | 3 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GWARTNEY, ELIZABETH A | 1 | 36.0% | +34.9% |
| MERRIAM, ANDREW E | 1 | 28.3% | +33.9% |
| MCCLAIN, TYNESHA L. | 1 | 15.7% | +24.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18009786 | A METHOD FOR IMPROVING THE PROTEINACEOUS FIBRE STRUCTURE OF A TEXTURED VEGETABLE PROTEIN PRODUCT, METHODS OF CONTROLLING THE MOUTHFEEL OF A TEXTURED PROTEIN, AND TEXTURED VEGETABLE PROTEIN PRODUCTS | MERRIAM, ANDREW E | 7d |
| 16604243 | TEXTURIZED PROTEIN PRODUCT | MCCLAIN, TYNESHA L. | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18009786 | A METHOD FOR IMPROVING THE PROTEINACEOUS FIBRE STRUCTURE OF A TEXTURED VEGETABLE PROTEIN PRODUCT, METHODS OF CONTROLLING THE MOUTHFEEL OF A TEXTURED PROTEIN, AND TEXTURED VEGETABLE PROTEIN PRODUCTS | MERRIAM, ANDREW E | 7d |
| 18258115 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING A FORMED MEAT-REPLACEMENT FOOD PRODUCT AND A FORMED MEAT-REPLACEMENT FOOD PRODUCT COMPRISING A PLANT BASED PROTEINACEOUS BINDER INGREDIENT, A PLANT BASED PROTEINACEOUS BINDER INGREDIENT AND A METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING A PLANT-BASED PROTEINACEOUS BINDER INGREDIENT | GWARTNEY, ELIZABETH A | 29d |
| 16604243 | TEXTURIZED PROTEIN PRODUCT | MCCLAIN, TYNESHA L. | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1759 | 1 |
| 1791 | 1 |
| 1793 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18258115 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING A FORMED MEAT-REPLACEMENT FOOD PRODUCT AND A FORMED MEAT-REPLACEMENT FOOD PRODUCT COMPRISING A PLANT BASED PROTEINACEOUS BINDER INGREDIENT, A PLANT BASED PROTEINACEOUS BINDER INGREDIENT AND A METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING A PLANT-BASED PROTEINACEOUS BINDER INGREDIENT | GWARTNEY, ELIZABETH A | 1759 | §103 | Final Rejection | 29d | Pending | Jun 16, 2023 |
| 18009786 | A METHOD FOR IMPROVING THE PROTEINACEOUS FIBRE STRUCTURE OF A TEXTURED VEGETABLE PROTEIN PRODUCT, METHODS OF CONTROLLING THE MOUTHFEEL OF A TEXTURED PROTEIN, AND TEXTURED VEGETABLE PROTEIN PRODUCTS | MERRIAM, ANDREW E | 1791 | §103 | Final Rejection | 7d | Pending | Dec 12, 2022 |
| 16604243 | TEXTURIZED PROTEIN PRODUCT | MCCLAIN, TYNESHA L. | 1793 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 10, 2019 |
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Start Free TrialVALIO OY has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 3 examiners.
Elizabeth A Gwartney has the most, with 1 of VALIO OY's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
