Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Fonterra Co-Operative Group Limited

5 pending office actions • 4 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

5
Total Pending OAs
5
Non-Final OAs
0
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.

3
Overdue
0
Due this week
1
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
1
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 (3)Due ≤ 30 days (1)Due later (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.

0
Hard (0%)
5
Medium (100%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only4 (80%)
§102 only1 (20%)

Industry Mix

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

5
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.

50 h
Manual time on pending OAs
10 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
18 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.4 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
WILLKEEN, GREGORY ALAN 1
MCNEIL, JENNIFER C 1 23.5% +13.2%
OGUNBIYI, OLUWATOSIN A 1 63.3% +42.1%
KRISHNAN, GANAPATHY 1 52.2% +0.0%
MILLER, DALE R 1 62.3% +16.5%

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
18564539 DAIRY PRODUCT AND PROCESS MCNEIL, JENNIFER C 12d

Interview Candidates (3)

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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17593529 COMPOSITIONS COMPRISING POLAR LIPIDS FOR MAINTAINING OR INCREASING MOBILITY AND VITALITY MILLER, DALE R 2d overdue
18564539 DAIRY PRODUCT AND PROCESS MCNEIL, JENNIFER C 12d
18258950 USE OF LACTIC ACID BACTERIA TO INHIBIT METHANOGEN GROWTH OR REDUCE METHANE EMISSIONS OGUNBIYI, OLUWATOSIN A 70d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1693 2
1651 1
1793 1
1645 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18543604 METHODS FOR INCREASING MENTAL WELL-BEING AND/OR HAPPINESS WILLKEEN, GREGORY ALAN 1651 §103 Non-Final OA 16d overdue Pending Dec 18, 2023
18564539 DAIRY PRODUCT AND PROCESS MCNEIL, JENNIFER C 1793 §103 Non-Final OA 12d Pending Nov 27, 2023
18258950 USE OF LACTIC ACID BACTERIA TO INHIBIT METHANOGEN GROWTH OR REDUCE METHANE EMISSIONS OGUNBIYI, OLUWATOSIN A 1645 §102 Non-Final OA 70d Pending Jun 22, 2023
18084954 METHODS OF MAINTAINING OR INCREASING GROWTH OR COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT KRISHNAN, GANAPATHY 1693 §103 Non-Final OA 51d overdue Pending Dec 20, 2022
17593529 COMPOSITIONS COMPRISING POLAR LIPIDS FOR MAINTAINING OR INCREASING MOBILITY AND VITALITY MILLER, DALE R 1693 §103 Non-Final OA 2d overdue Pending Sep 20, 2021

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