Technology area: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
LANTMÄNNEN FUNCTIONAL FOODS AB operates a company patent portfolio in the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. Currently, the portfolio has 1 pending office action, reflecting a targeted stage of its intellectual property development. This action is being handled by 1 distinct examiner, concentrating the company's current USPTO engagement on a single point of review. The portfolio's activity is also limited to 1 distinct art unit, indicating that the pending matter falls within a specific technical niche of the biotechnology field.
The busiest examiner for LANTMÄNNEN FUNCTIONAL FOODS AB is FIEBIG, RUSSELL G, who is currently overseeing the 1 pending office action. As the only examiner with an active case, FIEBIG, RUSSELL G holds a critical role in determining the outcome of the company's current patenting efforts. For a practitioner, the fact that there is 1 busiest examiner pending case simplifies the management of the portfolio but increases the importance of this specific interaction. The concentration in 1 distinct art unit suggests that the company is not currently facing the challenge of navigating multiple different examination standards across the USPTO.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FIEBIG, RUSSELL G | 1 | 62.6% | +25.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17910175 | A Consumable Product Comprising Malted Cereals for Promoting Recovery at Physical Activity | FIEBIG, RUSSELL G | 35d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1655 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17910175 | A Consumable Product Comprising Malted Cereals for Promoting Recovery at Physical Activity | FIEBIG, RUSSELL G | 1655 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 35d overdue | Pending | Sep 08, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialLANTMÄNNEN FUNCTIONAL FOODS AB has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Russell G Fiebig has the most, with 1 of LANTMÄNNEN FUNCTIONAL FOODS AB's pending office actions.
Mostly Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals (USPTO Tech Center 1600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
