Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Corn Products Development Inc.

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

Portfolio Summary

8
Total Pending OAs
3
Non-Final OAs
2
Final Rejections
3
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 8 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

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

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (4)Due ≤ 30 days (1)Due ≤ 60 days (3)

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%)
7
Medium (88%)
1
Easy (12%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only5 (62%)
§102 only2 (25%)
§112 only1 (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
BOGGS, RUSSELL T 1 72.8% +15.3%
WATTS, JENNA A 1 47.8% +55.0%
GURTOWSKI, RICHARD C 1 71.9% +38.9%
ZHANG SPIERING, DONGXIU 1 35.3% +85.7%
DIVIESTI, KARLA ISOBEL 1 4.5% +25.0%
HOLT, ANDRIAE M 1 48.7% +21.6%
OLSEN, KAELEIGH ELIZABETH 1 42.1% +68.8%
FAY, ZOHREH ALEMZADEH 1 51.8% -6.7%

Hard Cases (1)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17916072 PLANT-BASED ANALOG MEAT COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS OF MANUFACTURE DIVIESTI, KARLA ISOBEL 56d

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
17797472 COMPOSITIONS OF FREE FLOWING HYDROPHOBIC CARBOHYDRATE DERIVATIVES AND METHODS FOR USE OLSEN, KAELEIGH ELIZABETH 89d overdue
17798097 FLOW-AID COMPOSITIONS HOLT, ANDRIAE M 52d overdue
18732990 HYBRID CORN PLANT AND SEED A5000 BOGGS, RUSSELL T 45d overdue
18016693 METHOD OF MAKING FUNCTIONAL FIBER HAVING IMPROVED DEWATERING EFFICIENCY ZHANG SPIERING, DONGXIU 12d
18683890 DE-FLAVORED FAVA BEAN PROTEIN CONCENTRATES AND METHODS OF MANUFACTURE WATTS, JENNA A 39d
18561054 AQUEOUS BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS WITH REDUCED PHOSPHATE LEVELS AND METHODS OF REDUCING PHOSPHATE LEVELS GURTOWSKI, RICHARD C 56d
17916072 PLANT-BASED ANALOG MEAT COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS OF MANUFACTURE DIVIESTI, KARLA ISOBEL 56d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1663 1
1791 1
1773 1
1616 1
1792 1
1614 1
1619 1
1617 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18732990 HYBRID CORN PLANT AND SEED A5000 BOGGS, RUSSELL T 1663 §112 Non-Final OA 45d overdue Pending Jun 04, 2024
18683890 DE-FLAVORED FAVA BEAN PROTEIN CONCENTRATES AND METHODS OF MANUFACTURE WATTS, JENNA A 1791 §103 Non-Final OA 39d Pending Feb 15, 2024
18561054 AQUEOUS BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS WITH REDUCED PHOSPHATE LEVELS AND METHODS OF REDUCING PHOSPHATE LEVELS GURTOWSKI, RICHARD C 1773 §103 Non-Final OA 56d Pending Nov 15, 2023
18016693 METHOD OF MAKING FUNCTIONAL FIBER HAVING IMPROVED DEWATERING EFFICIENCY ZHANG SPIERING, DONGXIU 1616 §102 Non-Final OA 12d Pending Jan 18, 2023
17916072 PLANT-BASED ANALOG MEAT COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS OF MANUFACTURE DIVIESTI, KARLA ISOBEL 1792 §103 Final Rejection 56d Pending Sep 30, 2022
17798097 FLOW-AID COMPOSITIONS HOLT, ANDRIAE M 1614 §103 Final Rejection 52d overdue Pending Aug 08, 2022
17797472 COMPOSITIONS OF FREE FLOWING HYDROPHOBIC CARBOHYDRATE DERIVATIVES AND METHODS FOR USE OLSEN, KAELEIGH ELIZABETH 1619 §102 Non-Final OA 89d overdue Pending Aug 04, 2022
17763010 SEED COATING COMPOSITIONS FAY, ZOHREH ALEMZADEH 1617 §103 Non-Final OA 98d overdue Pending Mar 23, 2022

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