Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Chemistry & Materials
13 pending office actions • 10 art units • 12 examiners • 0 of 13 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Ingredion Incorporated has 12 pending office actions situated in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These matters are distributed across 11 distinct examiners and 9 distinct art units, which indicates that most actions are being reviewed by different officials. This distribution shows that the company is engaging with a variety of patent office personnel across the 9 distinct art units within the Chemistry & Materials field. The 12 pending office actions require a broad management strategy.
The busiest examiner, BEKKER, KELLY JO, is managing 2 pending office actions. While this examiner has the highest individual count, these 2 pending actions represent a small part of the total workload, highlighting that the company's legal strategy involves 11 distinct examiners simultaneously. The company must address the varied requirements of the different examiners currently examining its applications in the Chemistry & Materials field.
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.
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.
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 (46%) |
| §102 only | 1 (8%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 6 (46%) |
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 | 16.7% | +35.4% |
| BOGGS, RUSSELL T | 1 | 73.2% | +15.1% |
| WATTS, JENNA A | 1 | 48.6% | +53.9% |
| SILVERMAN, JANICE Y | 1 | 36.7% | +53.8% |
| GURTOWSKI, RICHARD C | 1 | 72.3% | +37.7% |
| KOHLER, STEPHANIE A | 1 | 31.9% | +31.1% |
| ZHANG SPIERING, DONGXIU | 1 | 45.2% | +70.9% |
| DIVIESTI, KARLA ISOBEL | 1 | 3.4% | +20.0% |
| MORNHINWEG, JEFFREY P | 1 | 36.3% | +32.1% |
| HOLT, ANDRIAE M | 1 | 49.3% | +22.9% |
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 |
| 18683890 | DE-FLAVORED FAVA BEAN PROTEIN CONCENTRATES AND METHODS OF MANUFACTURE | WATTS, JENNA A | 39d |
| 17916072 | PLANT-BASED ANALOG MEAT COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS OF MANUFACTURE | DIVIESTI, KARLA ISOBEL | 56d |
| 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 | — |
| 17906103 | REBAUDIOSIDE M SWEETENER COMPOSITIONS | MORNHINWEG, JEFFREY P | — |
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 |
| 18016693 | METHOD OF MAKING FUNCTIONAL FIBER HAVING IMPROVED DEWATERING EFFICIENCY | ZHANG SPIERING, DONGXIU | 12d |
| 18683890 | DE-FLAVORED FAVA BEAN PROTEIN CONCENTRATES AND METHODS OF MANUFACTURE | WATTS, JENNA A | 39d |
| 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 |
| 18568399 | GELLING CITRUS FIBERS AND METHODS OF MANUFACTURE | SILVERMAN, JANICE Y | — |
| 18552984 | ALGINATE-FREE BAKERY CREAMS COMPRISING COLD WATER SWELLABLE STARCH | KOHLER, STEPHANIE A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1792 | 3 |
| 1791 | 2 |
| 1663 | 1 |
| 1732 | 1 |
| 1773 | 1 |
| 1616 | 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 |
| 18683890 | DE-FLAVORED FAVA BEAN PROTEIN CONCENTRATES AND METHODS OF MANUFACTURE | WATTS, JENNA A | 1791 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 39d | Pending | Feb 15, 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 |
| 18552984 | ALGINATE-FREE BAKERY CREAMS COMPRISING COLD WATER SWELLABLE STARCH | KOHLER, STEPHANIE A | 1791 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 28, 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 |
| 18016693 | METHOD OF MAKING FUNCTIONAL FIBER HAVING IMPROVED DEWATERING EFFICIENCY | ZHANG SPIERING, DONGXIU | 1616 | §102 | Non-Final OA | 12d | Pending | Jan 18, 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§112 | 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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