Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Fmc Corporation

7 pending office actions • 5 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 10 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

7
Total Pending OAs
6
Non-Final OAs
1
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 7 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

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

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (5)Due ≤ 30 days (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%)
3
Medium (43%)
1
Easy (14%)
3
Unknown (43%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only2 (29%)
§102 only1 (14%)
§112 only1 (14%)
No statute on record3 (43%)

Industry Mix

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

7
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.

70 h
Manual time on pending OAs
14 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
24 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.6 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
HIRT, ERIN E 2 39.2% +23.3%
JARRELL, NOBLE E 1 81.3% +9.0%
PAK, JOHN D 1 51.9% +37.7%
WERTZ, ASHLEE ELIZABETH 1 45.7% +33.1%
JANOSKO, CHASITY PAIGE 1 15.4% +75.0%
IVANOVA, SVETLANA M 1 50.5% +51.9%

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
18286654 FUNGICIDAL PYRIDONES JARRELL, NOBLE E 4d overdue

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
18127373 SUBSTITUTED TOLYL FUNGICIDES JANOSKO, CHASITY PAIGE 42d overdue

Interview Candidates (6)

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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18566378 FUSED PYRIDINES FOR CONTROLLING INVERTEBRATE PESTS HIRT, ERIN E 112d overdue
17922624 SUBSTITUTED TOLYL FUNGICIDES AND THEIR MIXTURES IVANOVA, SVETLANA M 60d overdue
18267619 FUNGICIDAL OXADIAZOLES AND THEIR MIXTURES WERTZ, ASHLEE ELIZABETH 45d overdue
18127373 SUBSTITUTED TOLYL FUNGICIDES JANOSKO, CHASITY PAIGE 42d overdue
18419734 HERBICIDAL MIXTURE, COMPOSITION AND METHOD HIRT, ERIN E 27d
18277104 HERBICIDAL CYCLIC AMIDES N-SUBSTITUTED WITH A HALOALKYLSULFONYLANILIDE GROUP PAK, JOHN D 28d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1616 2
1699 2
1612 1
1613 1
1627 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18419734 HERBICIDAL MIXTURE, COMPOSITION AND METHOD HIRT, ERIN E 1616 §103 Non-Final OA 27d Pending Jan 23, 2024
18566378 FUSED PYRIDINES FOR CONTROLLING INVERTEBRATE PESTS HIRT, ERIN E 1616 Other Non-Final OA 112d overdue Pending Dec 01, 2023
18286654 FUNGICIDAL PYRIDONES JARRELL, NOBLE E 1699 §102 Non-Final OA 4d overdue Pending Oct 12, 2023
18277104 HERBICIDAL CYCLIC AMIDES N-SUBSTITUTED WITH A HALOALKYLSULFONYLANILIDE GROUP PAK, JOHN D 1699 §112 Non-Final OA 28d Pending Aug 14, 2023
18267619 FUNGICIDAL OXADIAZOLES AND THEIR MIXTURES WERTZ, ASHLEE ELIZABETH 1612 Other Non-Final OA 45d overdue Pending Jun 15, 2023
18127373 SUBSTITUTED TOLYL FUNGICIDES JANOSKO, CHASITY PAIGE 1613 §103 Final Rejection 42d overdue Pending Mar 28, 2023
17922624 SUBSTITUTED TOLYL FUNGICIDES AND THEIR MIXTURES IVANOVA, SVETLANA M 1627 Other Non-Final OA 60d overdue Pending Nov 01, 2022

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