Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Land O'Lakes Inc. maintains a presence in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. The company currently has 1 pending office action. This action is assigned to 1 distinct art unit. KELLY JO BEKKER is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, handling the 1 pending action. There is only 1 distinct examiner involved in the company's pending matters.
This concentration means that the prosecution of the action is confined to a single art unit and a single examiner. In the Chemistry & Materials field, the pending action represents the entirety of the company's current office action workload. Having the action, the distinct examiner, and the art unit creates a very focused prosecution environment.
Practitioners should tailor their approach to the specific preferences of KELLY JO BEKKER within the art unit. This concentration of the action under the examiner means that the company's current patent goals are tied to a single individual's review.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (100%) |
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 | 1 | 16.8% | +35.1% |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18755076 | FOOD PRODUCTS AND SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF MAKING SAME | 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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18755076 | FOOD PRODUCTS AND SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF MAKING SAME | BEKKER, KELLY JO | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1792 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18755076 | FOOD PRODUCTS AND SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF MAKING SAME | BEKKER, KELLY JO | 1792 | §103§112Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 26, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialLand O'Lakes Inc. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Kelly Jo Bekker has the most, with 1 of Land O'Lakes Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
