Technology area: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals
12 pending office actions • 7 art units • 12 examiners • 0 of 12 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 17 patents granted in the last 365 days
Corteva Agriscience LLC has 13 pending office actions in Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals. The matters are distributed across 13 examiners and 8 art units. Every recorded action has a separate examiner assignment, while the smaller art-unit figure shows that several matters fall within the same broader technical groups.
JOHNSON, DANIELLE D is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. No examiner has more than that recorded assignment, so counsel should prioritize consistent portfolio controls and matter-specific responses rather than rely on repeated engagement with a common examiner.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (8%) |
| §103 only | 4 (33%) |
| §112 only | 1 (8%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (8%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 5 (42%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| JOHNSON, DANIELLE D | 1 | 45.0% | +13.2% |
| SCHLIENTZ, NATHAN W | 1 | 41.3% | -18.8% |
| ARMSTRONG, SUSANNAH SIPPLE | 1 | 30.0% | +53.1% |
| BELL, SARA ELIZABETH | 1 | 68.8% | +38.2% |
| TIEN, LUCY MINYU | 1 | 59.1% | +36.8% |
| TRUONG, QUANGLONG N | 1 | 78.6% | +23.3% |
| MURESAN, ANA Z | 1 | 75.0% | +31.2% |
| SULLIVAN, BRIAN JAMES | 1 | 76.5% | +14.9% |
| KOSAR, ANDREW D | 1 | 41.9% | +31.9% |
| MCWILLIAMS, KELSEY LYNN | 1 | 89.2% | +5.8% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18262233 | PROCESSES RELATED TO FORMATION OF N-(3-CHLORO-1-(PYRIDIN-3-YL)-1H-PYRAZOL-4-YL)-2-(METHYLSULFONYL)PROPANAMIDE | KOSAR, ANDREW D | 53d overdue |
| 18554687 | METHOD OF INHIBITING FLOWERING OF SUGARCANE | TIEN, LUCY MINYU | 4d overdue |
| 18650262 | PESTICIDAL COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS | ARMSTRONG, SUSANNAH SIPPLE | — |
| 18263801 | AUXINIC HERBICIDES AND METHODS OF USE THEREOF | MURESAN, ANA Z | — |
| 18355483 | SELECTION BASED ON OPTIMAL HAPLOID VALUE TO CREATE ELITE LINES | SULLIVAN, BRIAN JAMES | — |
| 18246899 | RAPID TRANSFORMATION OF MONOCOT LEAF EXPLANTS | MCWILLIAMS, KELSEY LYNN | — |
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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18262233 | PROCESSES RELATED TO FORMATION OF N-(3-CHLORO-1-(PYRIDIN-3-YL)-1H-PYRAZOL-4-YL)-2-(METHYLSULFONYL)PROPANAMIDE | KOSAR, ANDREW D | 53d overdue |
| 18554687 | METHOD OF INHIBITING FLOWERING OF SUGARCANE | TIEN, LUCY MINYU | 4d overdue |
| 19100410 | THE USE OF FLORPYRAUXIFEN-BENZYL AS A SOYBEAN HARVEST AID | JOHNSON, DANIELLE D | — |
| 18650262 | PESTICIDAL COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS | ARMSTRONG, SUSANNAH SIPPLE | — |
| 18294307 | POLYMORPHS HAVING PESTICIDAL ACTIVITY | BELL, SARA ELIZABETH | — |
| 18554691 | METHOD OF INCREASING SUGAR PRODUCTION FROM SUGARCANE | TRUONG, QUANGLONG N | — |
| 18263801 | AUXINIC HERBICIDES AND METHODS OF USE THEREOF | MURESAN, ANA Z | — |
| 18355483 | SELECTION BASED ON OPTIMAL HAPLOID VALUE TO CREATE ELITE LINES | SULLIVAN, BRIAN JAMES | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1616 | 3 |
| 1617 | 2 |
| 1625 | 2 |
| 1663 | 2 |
| 1612 | 1 |
| 1615 | 1 |
| 1692 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19100410 | THE USE OF FLORPYRAUXIFEN-BENZYL AS A SOYBEAN HARVEST AID | JOHNSON, DANIELLE D | 1617 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 31, 2025 |
| 18823970 | PICOLINAMIDE COMPOUNDS WITH FUNGICIDAL ACTIVITY | SCHLIENTZ, NATHAN W | 1616 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 04, 2024 |
| 18650262 | PESTICIDAL COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS | ARMSTRONG, SUSANNAH SIPPLE | 1616 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 30, 2024 |
| 18294307 | POLYMORPHS HAVING PESTICIDAL ACTIVITY | BELL, SARA ELIZABETH | 1625 | §112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 01, 2024 |
| 18554687 | METHOD OF INHIBITING FLOWERING OF SUGARCANE | TIEN, LUCY MINYU | 1612 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 4d overdue | Pending | Oct 10, 2023 |
| 18554691 | METHOD OF INCREASING SUGAR PRODUCTION FROM SUGARCANE | TRUONG, QUANGLONG N | 1615 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 10, 2023 |
| 18263801 | AUXINIC HERBICIDES AND METHODS OF USE THEREOF | MURESAN, ANA Z | 1692 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 01, 2023 |
| 18355483 | SELECTION BASED ON OPTIMAL HAPLOID VALUE TO CREATE ELITE LINES | SULLIVAN, BRIAN JAMES | 1663 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 20, 2023 |
| 18262233 | PROCESSES RELATED TO FORMATION OF N-(3-CHLORO-1-(PYRIDIN-3-YL)-1H-PYRAZOL-4-YL)-2-(METHYLSULFONYL)PROPANAMIDE | KOSAR, ANDREW D | 1625 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 53d overdue | Pending | Jul 20, 2023 |
| 18246899 | RAPID TRANSFORMATION OF MONOCOT LEAF EXPLANTS | MCWILLIAMS, KELSEY LYNN | 1663 | §101§103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 28, 2023 |
| 17759863 | COMPOSITIONS HAVING PESTICIDAL UTILITY AND PROCESSES RELATED THERETO | BROWE, DAVID | 1617 | §103 | Final Rejection | 9d | Pending | Aug 01, 2022 |
| 17289660 | COMPOSITIONS COMPRISING PYRIDINE CARBOXYLATE HERBICIDES WITH GLYPHOSATE OR GLUFOSINATE | SAEED, ALI S | 1616 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 28, 2021 |
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Start Free TrialCorteva Agriscience LLC has 12 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 7 art units and 12 examiners.
Danielle D Johnson has the most, with 1 of Corteva Agriscience LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals (USPTO Tech Center 1600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
