Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Bunge Loders Croklaan B V

4 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

4
Total Pending OAs
3
Non-Final OAs
1
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

3
Overdue
0
Due this week
1
Due this month
0
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. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (3)Due ≤ 30 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%)
2
Medium (50%)
2
Easy (50%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only2 (50%)
§112 only2 (50%)

Industry Mix

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

4
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.

40 h
Manual time on pending OAs
8 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
14 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.3 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
O'HERN, BRENT T 2 77.3% +20.4%
SHELLHAMMER, JAMES PAUL 1 0.0% +0.0%
DUBOIS, PHILIP A 1 25.0% +25.4%

Hard Cases (2)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
17778706 MEAT ANALOGUE PRODUCT AND METHOD SHELLHAMMER, JAMES PAUL 46d overdue
16499583 Emulsifier Composition Obtainable from Free Fatty Acids DUBOIS, PHILIP A 2d overdue

Interview Candidates (3)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
17794643 Aerated Fat Emulsion O'HERN, BRENT T 9d overdue
16499583 Emulsifier Composition Obtainable from Free Fatty Acids DUBOIS, PHILIP A 2d overdue
18001657 PROCESS OF PREPARING A FAT COMPOSITION O'HERN, BRENT T 14d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1793 3
1791 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18001657 PROCESS OF PREPARING A FAT COMPOSITION O'HERN, BRENT T 1793 §112 Non-Final OA 14d Pending Dec 13, 2022
17794643 Aerated Fat Emulsion O'HERN, BRENT T 1793 §112 Final Rejection 9d overdue Pending Jul 22, 2022
17778706 MEAT ANALOGUE PRODUCT AND METHOD SHELLHAMMER, JAMES PAUL 1793 §103 Non-Final OA 46d overdue Pending May 20, 2022
16499583 Emulsifier Composition Obtainable from Free Fatty Acids DUBOIS, PHILIP A 1791 §103 Non-Final OA 2d overdue Pending Sep 30, 2019

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