Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Chemistry & Materials
12 pending office actions • 9 art units • 11 examiners • 0 of 12 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Ingredion Incorporated has 12 pending office actions in Chemistry & Materials. The matters involve 11 examiners and 10 art units, so the portfolio spans a broad examination footprint rather than a single recurring assignment.
BEKKER, KELLY JO handles 2 pending matters, making that examiner the busiest identified contact. Most matters therefore sit with examiners handling individual assignments, which supports a matter-specific response strategy and centralized tracking of deadlines.
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.
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.
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.
| Bucket | Cases |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 6 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 6 (50%) |
How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.
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.
| Examiner | Apps on this docket | Allow rate | Interview lift |
|---|---|---|---|
| BEKKER, KELLY JO | 2 | 16.8% | +35.1% |
| BOGGS, RUSSELL T | 1 | 73.2% | +15.2% |
| GALSTER, SAMUEL LEONARD | 1 | 52.1% | +42.2% |
| DRODGE, JOSEPH W | 1 | 78.3% | +38.0% |
| SILVERMAN, JANICE Y | 1 | 37.6% | +53.0% |
| GURTOWSKI, RICHARD C | 1 | 72.3% | +37.8% |
| DIVIESTI, KARLA ISOBEL | 1 | 3.2% | +16.7% |
| MORNHINWEG, JEFFREY P | 1 | 36.7% | +32.2% |
| HOLT, ANDRIAE M | 1 | 49.5% | +23.0% |
| FAY, ZOHREH ALEMZADEH | 1 | 52.1% | -6.2% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18732990 | HYBRID CORN PLANT AND SEED A5000 | BOGGS, RUSSELL T | 45d overdue |
| 17916072 | PLANT-BASED ANALOG MEAT COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS OF MANUFACTURE | DIVIESTI, KARLA ISOBEL | 56d |
| 18702544 | STARCH COMPOSITIONS MADE USING SATURATED STEAM | GALSTER, SAMUEL LEONARD | — |
| 18293553 | METHODS FOR THERMALLY INHIBITING STARCH | DRODGE, JOSEPH W | — |
| 18568399 | GELLING CITRUS FIBERS AND METHODS OF MANUFACTURE | SILVERMAN, JANICE Y | — |
| 18270312 | BEVERAGES COMPRISING REB A AND STEVIOL GLYCOSIDES | BEKKER, KELLY JO | — |
| 18270309 | BEVERAGES INCLUDING STEVIOL GLYCOSIDES AND A FOAM SUPPRESSING AGENT | BEKKER, KELLY JO | — |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17798097 | FLOW-AID COMPOSITIONS | HOLT, ANDRIAE M | 52d overdue |
| 18732990 | HYBRID CORN PLANT AND SEED A5000 | BOGGS, RUSSELL T | 45d overdue |
| 18561054 | AQUEOUS BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS WITH REDUCED PHOSPHATE LEVELS AND METHODS OF REDUCING PHOSPHATE LEVELS | GURTOWSKI, RICHARD C | 56d |
| 17916072 | PLANT-BASED ANALOG MEAT COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS OF MANUFACTURE | DIVIESTI, KARLA ISOBEL | 56d |
| 18702544 | STARCH COMPOSITIONS MADE USING SATURATED STEAM | GALSTER, SAMUEL LEONARD | — |
| 18293553 | METHODS FOR THERMALLY INHIBITING STARCH | DRODGE, JOSEPH W | — |
| 18568399 | GELLING CITRUS FIBERS AND METHODS OF MANUFACTURE | SILVERMAN, JANICE Y | — |
| 18270312 | BEVERAGES COMPRISING REB A AND STEVIOL GLYCOSIDES | BEKKER, KELLY JO | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1792 | 3 |
| 1773 | 2 |
| 1663 | 1 |
| 1693 | 1 |
| 1732 | 1 |
| 1793 | 1 |
| 1614 | 1 |
| 1617 | 1 |
| 1788 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18732990 | HYBRID CORN PLANT AND SEED A5000 | BOGGS, RUSSELL T | 1663 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 45d overdue | Pending | Jun 04, 2024 |
| 18702544 | STARCH COMPOSITIONS MADE USING SATURATED STEAM | GALSTER, SAMUEL LEONARD | 1693 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 18, 2024 |
| 18293553 | METHODS FOR THERMALLY INHIBITING STARCH | DRODGE, JOSEPH W | 1773 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 30, 2024 |
| 18568399 | GELLING CITRUS FIBERS AND METHODS OF MANUFACTURE | SILVERMAN, JANICE Y | 1732 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 08, 2023 |
| 18561054 | AQUEOUS BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS WITH REDUCED PHOSPHATE LEVELS AND METHODS OF REDUCING PHOSPHATE LEVELS | GURTOWSKI, RICHARD C | 1773 | §103 | Final Rejection | 56d | Pending | Nov 15, 2023 |
| 18270312 | BEVERAGES COMPRISING REB A AND STEVIOL GLYCOSIDES | BEKKER, KELLY JO | 1792 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 29, 2023 |
| 18270309 | BEVERAGES INCLUDING STEVIOL GLYCOSIDES AND A FOAM SUPPRESSING AGENT | BEKKER, KELLY JO | 1792 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 29, 2023 |
| 17916072 | PLANT-BASED ANALOG MEAT COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS OF MANUFACTURE | DIVIESTI, KARLA ISOBEL | 1792 | §103 | Final Rejection | 56d | Pending | Sep 30, 2022 |
| 17906103 | REBAUDIOSIDE M SWEETENER COMPOSITIONS | MORNHINWEG, JEFFREY P | 1793 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 12, 2022 |
| 17798097 | FLOW-AID COMPOSITIONS | HOLT, ANDRIAE M | 1614 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 52d overdue | Pending | Aug 08, 2022 |
| 17763010 | SEED COATING COMPOSITIONS | FAY, ZOHREH ALEMZADEH | 1617 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 98d overdue | Pending | Mar 23, 2022 |
| 17427320 | IMPROVED CORRUGATING ADHESIVES | DUCHENEAUX, FRANK D | 1788 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 30, 2021 |
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Start Free TrialIngredion Incorporated has 12 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 9 art units and 11 examiners.
Kelly Jo Bekker has the most, with 2 of Ingredion Incorporated's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
