Prosecution Insights
Last updated: April 19, 2026

Mars Incorporated

29 pending office actions

Portfolio Summary

29
Total Pending OAs
15
Final Rejections
14
Non-Final OAs

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatusFiled
19212496 CACAO PLANT NAMED 'ISC-1' MCCORMICK EWOLDT, SUSAN BETH 1661 Final Rejection May 19, 2025
19212429 CACAO PLANT NAMED 'ISC-2' ROBINSON, KEITH O NEAL 1661 Final Rejection May 19, 2025
19199300 FLAVOR COMPOSITIONS AND SCREENING METHODS FOR IDENTIFYING THE SAME GWARTNEY, ELIZABETH A 1759 Final Rejection May 05, 2025
18868033 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AGRICULTURAL RISK MANAGEMENT ULLAH, ARIF 3625 Non-Final OA Nov 21, 2024
18858819 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR RECOMMENDING A FOOD PRODUCT BASED ON CHARACTERISTICS OF AN ANIMAL PALAVECINO, KATHLEEN GAGE 3688 Non-Final OA Oct 22, 2024
18635200 PET FOOD TURNER, FELICIA C 1793 Final Rejection Apr 15, 2024
18691661 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETERMINING A CUTANEOUS LESION SCORE OF A COMPANION ANIMAL CHEN, HUO LONG 2682 Non-Final OA Mar 13, 2024
18554897 FOOD PRODUCT BEKKER, KELLY JO 1792 Final Rejection Oct 11, 2023
18371238 PET FOOD RODGERS, ARIEL M 1792 Final Rejection Sep 21, 2023
18467939 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETERMINING PERSISTENT DECIDUOUS TEETH RISK HOLCOMB, MARK 3685 Final Rejection Sep 15, 2023
18107845 HEAT RESISTANT CHOCOLATE AXTELL, ASHLEY 1792 Final Rejection Feb 09, 2023
17999791 PROCESS FOR PREPARING PET FOOD AND PET FOOD OBTAINABLE THEREBY LACHICA, ERICSON M 1792 Non-Final OA Nov 23, 2022
18046980 FLAVOUR ADDITIVES SHELLHAMMER, JAMES PAUL 1793 Non-Final OA Oct 17, 2022
18046963 FLAVOUR ADDITIVES SHELLHAMMER, JAMES PAUL 1793 Non-Final OA Oct 17, 2022
17908758 THE PROCESS FOR PRODUCTION OF A MEAT ANALOGUE, AND MEAT ANALOGUE PREPARED THEREBY DIVIESTI, KARLA ISOBEL 1792 Final Rejection Sep 01, 2022
17798016 EXPANDED DRY PRODUCT FOR CALORIC RESTRICTION AND SATIETOGENIC EFFECT, USES AND PROCESS FOR MANUFACTURE THEREOF LEBLANC, KATHERINE DEGUIRE 1791 Final Rejection Aug 05, 2022
17864895 FOOD PRODUCT FOR REGULATING LIPID METABOLITES AND METHODS GERLA, STEPHANIE RAE 1791 Non-Final OA Jul 14, 2022
17864465 HEAT RESISTANT CONFECTIONS ZILBERING, ASSAF 1792 Final Rejection Jul 14, 2022
17632491 SPRAY DRIED CACAO PULP MERRIAM, ANDREW E 1791 Non-Final OA Feb 02, 2022
17616916 MODULATION OF ORAL MICROBIOTA MEJIAS, SAMANTHA LEE 1618 Non-Final OA Dec 06, 2021
17482985 METHODS FOR TREATING DILATED CARDIOMYOPATHY PHAN, DOAN THI-THUC 1613 Final Rejection Sep 23, 2021
17423774 METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR TREATING INTESTINAL DYSBIOSIS KERSHAW, KELLY P 1791 Non-Final OA Jul 16, 2021
17299546 METHODS FOR PRODUCING PROTEINACEOUS FOOD PRODUCT INGREDIENTS, A PET FOOD COMPRISING SAID INGREDIENT AND A METHOD OF REMOVING MALODORS FROM, AND/OR INCREASING THE PALATABILITY OF, SAID INGREDIENT SWEENEY, MAURA ELIZABETH 1791 Non-Final OA Jun 03, 2021
17274284 COMPOSITIONS CONTAINING LINOLEIC ACID CABRAL, ROBERT S 1614 Final Rejection Mar 08, 2021
17177059 SAMPLE CARTRIDGES NGUYEN, HENRY H 1758 Final Rejection Feb 16, 2021
17250389 BIOMARKERS AND TEST MODELS FOR CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE VASSELL, MEREDITH ABBOTT 1687 Final Rejection Jan 14, 2021
16963093 BIOMARKERS AND CLASSIFICATION ALGORITHMS FOR CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE IN CATS STRIEGEL, THEODORE CHARLES 1685 Non-Final OA Jul 17, 2020
16613186 METHODS FOR PRODUCING FEATHER-BASED FOOD PRODUCTS TURNER, FELICIA C 1793 Non-Final OA Nov 13, 2019
16093025 COMPOUNDS THAT MODULATE CALCIUM-SENSING RECEPTOR ACTIVITY FOR MODULATING KOKUMI TASTE AND PET FOOD PRODUCTS CONTAINING THE SAME MORNHINWEG, JEFFREY P 1793 Non-Final OA Oct 11, 2018

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