Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 14, 2026

Corteva Agriscience LLC

15 pending office actions • 9 art units • 15 examiners • 0 of 15 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 18 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

15
Total Pending OAs
13
Non-Final OAs
1
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.

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

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (3)Due ≤ 7 days (1)Due ≤ 30 days (1)Due ≤ 60 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.

5
Hard (33%)
7
Medium (47%)
3
Easy (20%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 + other2 (13%)
§103 only6 (40%)
§102 only1 (7%)
§112 only1 (7%)
Double-patenting only2 (13%)
Multi-statute (no §101)3 (20%)

Industry Mix

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

13
Life Sciences
87% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
0
Mechanical / Eng
0% of docket
2
Business / Other
13% 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.

150 h
Manual time on pending OAs
30 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
52 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.3 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
SHEN, YANXIN NMN 1 83.3% +27.8%
SCHLIENTZ, NATHAN W 1 41.2% -19.1%
BOGGS, RUSSELL T 1 73.1% +15.4%
ARMSTRONG, SUSANNAH SIPPLE 1 32.1% +51.9%
KINGDON, CATHY 1 80.4% +2.3%
TIEN, LUCY MINYU 1 60.5% +37.0%
TRUONG, QUANGLONG N 1 78.8% +23.5%
MURESAN, ANA Z 1 74.9% +31.8%
PATEL, SAGAR S 1 76.0% +34.4%
KOSAR, ANDREW D 1 41.4% +31.8%

Quick Wins (2)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18598050 Regulatory Elements From Lamium Leaf Distortion Associated Virus (LLDAV) KINGDON, CATHY 21d
19210051 METHODS FOR PRODUCING A COMPLEX TRANSGENIC TRAIT LOCUS SHEN, YANXIN NMN

Hard Cases (5)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18765579 PLANT REGULATORY ELEMENTS AND METHODS OF USE THEREOF BOGGS, RUSSELL T 56d
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

Interview Candidates (8)

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 #TitleExaminerDue 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
18263227 CYCLOPROPYLAMIDE COMPOUNDS AGAINST PARASITES IN FISH PATEL, SAGAR S 5d overdue
18554687 METHOD OF INHIBITING FLOWERING OF SUGARCANE TIEN, LUCY MINYU 4d overdue
18765579 PLANT REGULATORY ELEMENTS AND METHODS OF USE THEREOF BOGGS, RUSSELL T 56d
19210051 METHODS FOR PRODUCING A COMPLEX TRANSGENIC TRAIT LOCUS SHEN, YANXIN NMN
18650262 PESTICIDAL COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS ARMSTRONG, SUSANNAH SIPPLE
18554691 METHOD OF INCREASING SUGAR PRODUCTION FROM SUGARCANE TRUONG, QUANGLONG N
18263801 AUXINIC HERBICIDES AND METHODS OF USE THEREOF MURESAN, ANA Z

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1663 4
1616 2
1612 1
1615 1
1692 1
1626 1
1625 1
1652 1
1662 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19210051 METHODS FOR PRODUCING A COMPLEX TRANSGENIC TRAIT LOCUS SHEN, YANXIN NMN §112 Non-Final OA Pending May 16, 2025
18823970 PICOLINAMIDE COMPOUNDS WITH FUNGICIDAL ACTIVITY SCHLIENTZ, NATHAN W DP Non-Final OA Pending Sep 04, 2024
18765579 PLANT REGULATORY ELEMENTS AND METHODS OF USE THEREOF BOGGS, RUSSELL T 1663 §101§102§112Other Non-Final OA 56d Pending Jul 08, 2024
18650262 PESTICIDAL COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS ARMSTRONG, SUSANNAH SIPPLE 1616 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Apr 30, 2024
18598050 Regulatory Elements From Lamium Leaf Distortion Associated Virus (LLDAV) KINGDON, CATHY 1663 §102Other Non-Final OA 21d Pending Mar 07, 2024
18554687 METHOD OF INHIBITING FLOWERING OF SUGARCANE TIEN, LUCY MINYU 1612 §103 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
18263227 CYCLOPROPYLAMIDE COMPOUNDS AGAINST PARASITES IN FISH PATEL, SAGAR S 1626 DP Final Rejection 5d overdue Pending Jul 27, 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 §103 Non-Final OA 53d overdue Pending Jul 20, 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
18246899 RAPID TRANSFORMATION OF MONOCOT LEAF EXPLANTS MCWILLIAMS, KELSEY LYNN 1663 §101§103§112DP Non-Final OA Pending Mar 28, 2023
17996640 PROCESSES RELATED TO FORMATION OF ARYLCYCLOPROPYL CARBOXYLIC ACIDS FRONDA, CHRISTIAN L 1652 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Oct 20, 2022
17442552 PLANT EXPLANT TRANSFORMATION BYRNES, DAVID R 1662 §103 Non-Final OA 6d Pending Sep 23, 2021
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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