Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 16, 2026

Archer Daniels Midland Company

8 pending office actions • 6 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 8 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 9 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

8
Total Pending OAs
4
Non-Final OAs
3
Final Rejections
1
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 6 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

4
Overdue
0
Due this week
0
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
2
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. 6 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (4)Due later (2)

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.

1
Hard (12%)
6
Medium (75%)
1
Easy (12%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only6 (75%)
§112 only1 (12%)
Multi-statute (no §101)1 (12%)

Industry Mix

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

8
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.

80 h
Manual time on pending OAs
16 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
28 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.7 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
LI, CHANGQING 2 29.6% +33.1%
SILVERMAN, JANICE Y 1 36.4% +53.4%
GERLA, STEPHANIE RAE 1 15.9% +31.1%
HAWKINS, AMANDA SALATA 1 4.3% -4.8%
BONAPARTE, AMY C 1 79.4% +23.0%
ROBINSON, HOPE A 1 67.6% +43.3%
GREGORIO, GUINEVER S 1 72.9% +18.7%

Hard Cases (4)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17997725 AQUATIC ANIMAL HEALTH AND WELLNESS FEED PRODUCT GERLA, STEPHANIE RAE 61d
18042981 METHODS OF PRODUCING DYES WITH VARIOUS HUE FROM HUITO FRUIT LI, CHANGQING 83d
18549097 METHODS OF BINDING INGREDIENTS OF MEAT ANALOG PRODUCTS LI, CHANGQING
17996902 LONG LASTING EDIBLE CHEW HAWKINS, AMANDA SALATA

Interview Candidates (7)

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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17280852 DIETARY FIBER PRODUCTION USING A GLYCOSYL-TRANSFERASE ROBINSON, HOPE A 91d overdue
16925102 POROUS SHAPED CARBON PRODUCTS GREGORIO, GUINEVER S 60d overdue
17907148 PROCESS SULFONATION TO PRODUCE TAURINE BONAPARTE, AMY C 50d overdue
18251054 NON-ANIMAL PROTEIN BASED CHEESE AND PROCESSES FOR PRODUCING SILVERMAN, JANICE Y 32d overdue
17997725 AQUATIC ANIMAL HEALTH AND WELLNESS FEED PRODUCT GERLA, STEPHANIE RAE 61d
18042981 METHODS OF PRODUCING DYES WITH VARIOUS HUE FROM HUITO FRUIT LI, CHANGQING 83d
18549097 METHODS OF BINDING INGREDIENTS OF MEAT ANALOG PRODUCTS LI, CHANGQING

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1791 3
1792 1
1793 1
1692 1
1652 1
1732 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18549097 METHODS OF BINDING INGREDIENTS OF MEAT ANALOG PRODUCTS LI, CHANGQING 1791 §103§112 Final Rejection Pending Sep 05, 2023
18251054 NON-ANIMAL PROTEIN BASED CHEESE AND PROCESSES FOR PRODUCING SILVERMAN, JANICE Y 1792 §103 Final Rejection 32d overdue Pending Apr 28, 2023
18042981 METHODS OF PRODUCING DYES WITH VARIOUS HUE FROM HUITO FRUIT LI, CHANGQING 1791 §103 Non-Final OA 83d Pending Feb 24, 2023
17997725 AQUATIC ANIMAL HEALTH AND WELLNESS FEED PRODUCT GERLA, STEPHANIE RAE 1791 §103 Final Rejection 61d Pending Nov 01, 2022
17996902 LONG LASTING EDIBLE CHEW HAWKINS, AMANDA SALATA 1793 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Oct 21, 2022
17907148 PROCESS SULFONATION TO PRODUCE TAURINE BONAPARTE, AMY C 1692 §103Other Non-Final OA 50d overdue Pending Sep 23, 2022
17280852 DIETARY FIBER PRODUCTION USING A GLYCOSYL-TRANSFERASE ROBINSON, HOPE A 1652 §112 Non-Final OA 91d overdue Pending Mar 26, 2021
16925102 POROUS SHAPED CARBON PRODUCTS GREGORIO, GUINEVER S 1732 §103 Non-Final OA 60d overdue Pending Jul 09, 2020

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