Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 18, 2026

DuPont Nutrition Biosciences APS

15 pending office actions • 9 art units • 14 examiners • 0 of 15 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

15
Total Pending OAs
10
Non-Final OAs
5
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 5 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

2
Overdue
0
Due this week
0
Due this month
1
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. 5 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (2)Due ≤ 60 days (1)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.

7
Hard (47%)
7
Medium (47%)
1
Easy (7%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only6 (40%)
§112 only1 (7%)
Double-patenting + other1 (7%)
Multi-statute (no §101)7 (47%)

Industry Mix

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

13
Life Sciences
87% of docket
1
Information Tech
7% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
1
Mechanical / Eng
7% 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.

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
MUKHOPADHYAY, BHASKAR 2 27.9% +36.5%
SWIFT, CANDICE LEE 1 57.4% +36.7%
DEVI, SARVAMANGALA 1 65.3% +55.0%
MRABI, HASSAN 1 78.2% +32.5%
RUNCO, MADELINE IVY 1 77.0% +8.2%
PRAKASH, SUBBALAKSHMI 1 45.0% +37.1%
ZAHORIK, AMANDA MARY 1 57.5% +48.2%
HAWKINS, AMANDA SALATA 1 4.3% -4.8%
MCNEIL, JENNIFER C 1 22.1% +15.3%
DIVIESTI, KARLA ISOBEL 1 4.2% +25.0%

Hard Cases (10)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17440997 THICKENING COMPOSITION MUKHOPADHYAY, BHASKAR 51d overdue
17258067 USE OF GLUCOSYL TRANSFERASE TO PROVIDE IMPROVED TEXTURE IN FERMENTED MILK BASED PRODUCTS KERSHAW, KELLY P 4d overdue
18030441 FEED COMPOSITIONS FOR ANIMAL HEALTH DIVIESTI, KARLA ISOBEL 70d
18249139 FOOD INGREDIENT HAWKINS, AMANDA SALATA 71d
18549936 APPARATUS AND METHODS OF SEAWEED FARMING AND HARVESTING RUNCO, MADELINE IVY
18254476 BACTERIUM WITH REDUCED SENSITIVITY TO BACTERIOPHAGE ZAHORIK, AMANDA MARY
18248450 GELLING COMPOSITION FOR PLANT-BASED FOOD PRODUCT MCNEIL, JENNIFER C
17945293 PROBIOTICS FOR USE IN REDUCING THE INCIDENCE AND DURATION OF ILLNESS JONES-FOSTER, ERICA NICOLE

Interview Candidates (9)

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
17440997 THICKENING COMPOSITION MUKHOPADHYAY, BHASKAR 51d overdue
18261681 PROTEIN FREE VEGETABLE WHIPPING CREAM PRAKASH, SUBBALAKSHMI 55d
18030441 FEED COMPOSITIONS FOR ANIMAL HEALTH DIVIESTI, KARLA ISOBEL 70d
18690504 OVER EXPRESSION OF FOLDASES AND CHAPERONES IMPROVES PROTEIN PRODUCTION SWIFT, CANDICE LEE
18578106 BIFIDOBACTERIA FOR PREVENTING, REDUCING OR TREATING SKIN AGING DEVI, SARVAMANGALA
18285532 A METHOD FOR MEASURING GALACTOOLIGOSACCHARIDES MRABI, HASSAN
18254476 BACTERIUM WITH REDUCED SENSITIVITY TO BACTERIOPHAGE ZAHORIK, AMANDA MARY
18248450 GELLING COMPOSITION FOR PLANT-BASED FOOD PRODUCT MCNEIL, JENNIFER C

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1793 4
1792 3
1645 2
1657 1
2147 1
3671 1
1636 1
1656 1
1791 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18690504 OVER EXPRESSION OF FOLDASES AND CHAPERONES IMPROVES PROTEIN PRODUCTION SWIFT, CANDICE LEE 1657 §112 Final Rejection Pending Mar 08, 2024
18578106 BIFIDOBACTERIA FOR PREVENTING, REDUCING OR TREATING SKIN AGING DEVI, SARVAMANGALA 1645 §102§112DPOther Non-Final OA Pending Jan 10, 2024
18285532 A METHOD FOR MEASURING GALACTOOLIGOSACCHARIDES MRABI, HASSAN 2147 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Oct 04, 2023
18549936 APPARATUS AND METHODS OF SEAWEED FARMING AND HARVESTING RUNCO, MADELINE IVY 3671 §103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Sep 11, 2023
18261681 PROTEIN FREE VEGETABLE WHIPPING CREAM PRAKASH, SUBBALAKSHMI 1793 §103 Non-Final OA 55d Pending Jul 17, 2023
18254476 BACTERIUM WITH REDUCED SENSITIVITY TO BACTERIOPHAGE ZAHORIK, AMANDA MARY 1645 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA Pending May 25, 2023
18249139 FOOD INGREDIENT HAWKINS, AMANDA SALATA 1793 §103 Final Rejection 71d Pending Apr 14, 2023
18248450 GELLING COMPOSITION FOR PLANT-BASED FOOD PRODUCT MCNEIL, JENNIFER C 1793 §103§112 Final Rejection Pending Apr 10, 2023
18030441 FEED COMPOSITIONS FOR ANIMAL HEALTH DIVIESTI, KARLA ISOBEL 1792 §103§112 Final Rejection 70d Pending Apr 05, 2023
18050511 LACTIC ACID BACTERIA HAVING IMPROVED SUGAR METABOLISM SU-TOBON, QIWEN NMN 1636 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Oct 28, 2022
17945293 PROBIOTICS FOR USE IN REDUCING THE INCIDENCE AND DURATION OF ILLNESS JONES-FOSTER, ERICA NICOLE 1656 §103§112 Final Rejection Pending Sep 15, 2022
17801045 COMPOSITION FOR FERMENTED OR ACIDIFIED MILK PRODUCTS, ITS USE, PRODUCTS CONTAINING THE SAME AND PROCESS FOR THE PRODUCTION OF THESE PRODUCTS MORENO, LARK JULIA 1793 §103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Aug 19, 2022
17440997 THICKENING COMPOSITION MUKHOPADHYAY, BHASKAR 1792 §103 Non-Final OA 51d overdue Pending Sep 20, 2021
17431557 METHOD FOR REDUCING LACTOSE AT HIGH TEMPERATURES MUKHOPADHYAY, BHASKAR 1792 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Aug 17, 2021
17258067 USE OF GLUCOSYL TRANSFERASE TO PROVIDE IMPROVED TEXTURE IN FERMENTED MILK BASED PRODUCTS KERSHAW, KELLY P 1791 §103§112 Non-Final OA 4d overdue Pending Jan 05, 2021

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