Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

DUPONT NUTRITION BIOSCIENCES APS

17 pending office actions • 8 art units • 15 examiners • 0 of 17 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

17
Total Pending OAs
10
Non-Final OAs
7
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 17 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

10
Overdue
0
Due this week
2
Due this month
3
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. 17 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (10)Due ≤ 30 days (2)Due ≤ 60 days (3)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.

0
Hard (0%)
14
Medium (82%)
0
Easy (0%)
3
Unknown (18%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only14 (82%)
No statute on record3 (18%)

Industry Mix

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

17
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.

170 h
Manual time on pending OAs
34 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
59 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.5 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
TRAN, LIEN THUY 2 28.3% +26.2%
DEVI, SARVAMANGALA 2 65.4% +55.0%
GERLA, STEPHANIE RAE 1 11.1% +22.5%
CHHAY, BONIRATH 1 100.0% +0.0%
PRAKASH, SUBBALAKSHMI 1 45.0% +37.2%
JONES-FOSTER, ERICA NICOLE 1 49.3% +45.3%
MARTIN, PAUL C 1 42.0% +21.7%
OLADAPO, TAIWO 1 53.0% +11.3%
HAWKINS, AMANDA SALATA 1 0.0% +0.0%
DIVIESTI, KARLA ISOBEL 1 4.5% +25.0%

Quick Wins (1)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18553229 COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR TREATING AND PREVENTING GASTROINTESTINAL INFLAMMATION CHHAY, BONIRATH 3d overdue

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
17997381 INGREDIENT SYSTEM FOR BAKERY PRODUCTS TRAN, LIEN THUY 112d overdue
18354742 COMPOSITION COMPRISING POWDERED FATTY ACID GLYCERIDE TRAN, LIEN THUY 74d overdue
18580967 COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR PRODUCING FERMENTED DAIRY COMPOSITIONS HAVING CREAM FLAVOR GERLA, STEPHANIE RAE 56d
18030441 FEED COMPOSITIONS FOR ANIMAL HEALTH DIVIESTI, KARLA ISOBEL 70d
18249139 FOOD INGREDIENT HAWKINS, AMANDA SALATA 71d

Interview Candidates (10)

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
18311438 ADDITIVE OLADAPO, TAIWO 119d overdue
17997381 INGREDIENT SYSTEM FOR BAKERY PRODUCTS TRAN, LIEN THUY 112d overdue
18317443 BIFIDOBACTERIA FOR REDUCING FOOD, ENERGY AND/OR FAT INTAKE MARTIN, PAUL C 111d overdue
18354742 COMPOSITION COMPRISING POWDERED FATTY ACID GLYCERIDE TRAN, LIEN THUY 74d overdue
18351069 ENZYMATIC MODIFICATION OF PHOSPHOLIPIDS IN FOOD JONES-FOSTER, ERICA NICOLE 23d overdue
18257603 BIOPROCESSING OF PROTEIN WITH PROBIOTIC BACTERIA TO IMPROVE AMINO ACID AND PEPTIDE AVAILABILITY DEVI, SARVAMANGALA 28d
18257612 IMPROVING PROTEIN DIGESTION AND AMINO ACID BIOAVAILABILITY BY PROBIOTIC STRAINS DEVI, SARVAMANGALA 29d
18261681 PROTEIN FREE VEGETABLE WHIPPING CREAM PRAKASH, SUBBALAKSHMI 55d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1793 4
1645 3
1792 3
1791 2
1653 2
1656 1
1771 1
1652 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18580967 COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR PRODUCING FERMENTED DAIRY COMPOSITIONS HAVING CREAM FLAVOR GERLA, STEPHANIE RAE 1791 §103 Non-Final OA 56d Pending Jan 19, 2024
18553229 COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR TREATING AND PREVENTING GASTROINTESTINAL INFLAMMATION CHHAY, BONIRATH 1645 §103 Non-Final OA 3d overdue Pending Sep 29, 2023
18354742 COMPOSITION COMPRISING POWDERED FATTY ACID GLYCERIDE TRAN, LIEN THUY 1793 §103 Non-Final OA 74d overdue Pending Jul 19, 2023
18261681 PROTEIN FREE VEGETABLE WHIPPING CREAM PRAKASH, SUBBALAKSHMI 1793 §103 Non-Final OA 55d Pending Jul 17, 2023
18351069 ENZYMATIC MODIFICATION OF PHOSPHOLIPIDS IN FOOD JONES-FOSTER, ERICA NICOLE 1656 Other Non-Final OA 23d overdue Pending Jul 12, 2023
18257612 IMPROVING PROTEIN DIGESTION AND AMINO ACID BIOAVAILABILITY BY PROBIOTIC STRAINS DEVI, SARVAMANGALA 1645 Final Rejection 29d Pending Jun 15, 2023
18257603 BIOPROCESSING OF PROTEIN WITH PROBIOTIC BACTERIA TO IMPROVE AMINO ACID AND PEPTIDE AVAILABILITY DEVI, SARVAMANGALA 1645 Final Rejection 28d Pending Jun 15, 2023
18317443 BIFIDOBACTERIA FOR REDUCING FOOD, ENERGY AND/OR FAT INTAKE MARTIN, PAUL C 1653 §103 Final Rejection 111d overdue Pending May 15, 2023
18311438 ADDITIVE OLADAPO, TAIWO 1771 §103 Non-Final OA 119d overdue Pending May 03, 2023
18249139 FOOD INGREDIENT HAWKINS, AMANDA SALATA 1793 §103 Final Rejection 71d Pending Apr 14, 2023
18030441 FEED COMPOSITIONS FOR ANIMAL HEALTH DIVIESTI, KARLA ISOBEL 1792 §103 Non-Final OA 70d Pending Apr 05, 2023
17997932 PECTIN EXTRACTION PROCESS ROBINSON, HOPE A 1652 §103 Final Rejection 34d Pending Nov 04, 2022
17997381 INGREDIENT SYSTEM FOR BAKERY PRODUCTS TRAN, LIEN THUY 1793 §103 Non-Final OA 112d overdue Pending Oct 28, 2022
17777939 THERMOSTABLE PHYTASE VARIANTS IANNUZO, NATALIE NMN 1653 §103 Non-Final OA 53d overdue Pending May 18, 2022
17440997 THICKENING COMPOSITION MUKHOPADHYAY, BHASKAR 1792 §103 Final Rejection 51d overdue Pending Sep 20, 2021
17441016 A PROCESS FOR PREPARING A READILY DISPERSIBLE HYDROCOLLOID COMPOSITION DIOU BERDECIA, LUIS EUGENIO 1792 §103 Final Rejection 10d overdue Pending Sep 20, 2021
17258067 USE OF GLUCOSYL TRANSFERASE TO PROVIDE IMPROVED TEXTURE IN FERMENTED MILK BASED PRODUCTS KERSHAW, KELLY P 1791 §103 Non-Final OA 4d overdue Pending Jan 05, 2021

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