Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

N V Nutricia

14 pending office actions • 11 art units • 13 examiners • 0 of 14 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 7 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

14
Total Pending OAs
11
Non-Final OAs
3
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 13 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

6
Overdue
1
Due this week
4
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
2
Due later

Deadline Fire Line

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. 13 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (6)Due ≤ 7 days (1)Due ≤ 30 days (4)Due later (2)

Case Difficulty Mix

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.

0
Hard (0%)
12
Medium (86%)
1
Easy (7%)
1
Unknown (7%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only11 (79%)
§112 only1 (7%)
Double-patenting + other1 (7%)
No statute on record1 (7%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

13
Life Sciences
93% of docket
1
Information Tech
7% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
0
Mechanical / Eng
0% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

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.

140 h
Manual time on pending OAs
28 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
49 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.2 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
CRUM, MARY ABOU NADER 2 41.5% +65.0%
KELLEY, CHRISTOPHER S 1 24.4% +17.5%
MI, QIUWEN 1 68.2% +49.9%
JACOBSON, MICHELE LYNN 1 25.5% +31.8%
SCHACHERMEYER, SAMANTHA LYNN 1 36.7% +65.0%
BOWLES, DAVID PAUL 1 75.0% +17.5%
CREWS, JARET JAMES 1 44.3% +71.9%
GERLA, STEPHANIE RAE 1 11.1% +22.5%
MERRIAM, ANDREW E 1 23.0% +31.4%
D' AMBROSIO, THEA 1 55.6% +56.8%

Hard Cases (4)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18563390 INFANT FORMULA FOR FEEDING INFANTS RECEIVING INFANT FORMULA AND HUMAN BREAST MILK JACOBSON, MICHELE LYNN 32d overdue
18607598 ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING HUMAN HEIGHT USING NEURAL NETWORKS KELLEY, CHRISTOPHER S 28d overdue
17783023 PURIFIED NON-DAIRY VEGETABLE PROTEIN GERLA, STEPHANIE RAE 63d
17775890 INFANT FORMULA WITH SPECIAL LIPID ARCHITECTURE FOR IMPROVING POSTNATAL GROWTH OF INFANTS BORN TO OVERWEIGHT AND OBESE MOTHERS MERRIAM, ANDREW E

Interview Candidates (11)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
17290264 Native whey protein for improving intestinal maturation D' AMBROSIO, THEA 42d overdue
18563390 INFANT FORMULA FOR FEEDING INFANTS RECEIVING INFANT FORMULA AND HUMAN BREAST MILK JACOBSON, MICHELE LYNN 32d overdue
18607598 ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING HUMAN HEIGHT USING NEURAL NETWORKS KELLEY, CHRISTOPHER S 28d overdue
17283287 NUTRITIONAL COMPOSITION COMPRISING 2'FUCOSYLLACTOSE AND DIETARY BUTYRATE CRUM, MARY ABOU NADER 4d overdue
18549938 LIQUID NUTRITIONAL COMPOSITION SUITABLE FOR MUSCLE FUNCTION BOWLES, DAVID PAUL 5d
18557304 Galactooligosaccharides for improving immune response SCHACHERMEYER, SAMANTHA LYNN 13d
18256057 FIBRE MIXTURE FOR YOUNG CHILDREN CREWS, JARET JAMES 16d
18681081 NUTRITIONAL COMPOSITION FOR MUSCLE MASS, STRENGTH AND FUNCTION MI, QIUWEN 21d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1654 2
1791 2
1657 2
2482 1
1655 1
1793 1
1693 1
1691 1
1792 1
1759 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18607598 ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING HUMAN HEIGHT USING NEURAL NETWORKS KELLEY, CHRISTOPHER S 2482 §103 Non-Final OA 28d overdue Pending Mar 18, 2024
18681081 NUTRITIONAL COMPOSITION FOR MUSCLE MASS, STRENGTH AND FUNCTION MI, QIUWEN 1655 §103 Non-Final OA 21d Pending Feb 05, 2024
18563390 INFANT FORMULA FOR FEEDING INFANTS RECEIVING INFANT FORMULA AND HUMAN BREAST MILK JACOBSON, MICHELE LYNN 1793 §103 Non-Final OA 32d overdue Pending Nov 22, 2023
18557304 Galactooligosaccharides for improving immune response SCHACHERMEYER, SAMANTHA LYNN 1693 §103 Non-Final OA 13d Pending Oct 26, 2023
18549938 LIQUID NUTRITIONAL COMPOSITION SUITABLE FOR MUSCLE FUNCTION BOWLES, DAVID PAUL 1654 §103 Non-Final OA 5d Pending Sep 11, 2023
18256057 FIBRE MIXTURE FOR YOUNG CHILDREN CREWS, JARET JAMES 1691 §103 Final Rejection 16d Pending Jun 06, 2023
17783023 PURIFIED NON-DAIRY VEGETABLE PROTEIN GERLA, STEPHANIE RAE 1791 §103 Non-Final OA 63d Pending Jun 07, 2022
17775890 INFANT FORMULA WITH SPECIAL LIPID ARCHITECTURE FOR IMPROVING POSTNATAL GROWTH OF INFANTS BORN TO OVERWEIGHT AND OBESE MOTHERS MERRIAM, ANDREW E 1791 §103 Final Rejection Pending May 11, 2022
17290264 Native whey protein for improving intestinal maturation D' AMBROSIO, THEA 1654 §112 Non-Final OA 42d overdue Pending Apr 30, 2021
17289249 Nutritional composition comprising urea and non-digestible oligosaccharides KIM, BRYAN 1792 §103 Final Rejection 27d Pending Apr 28, 2021
17283265 Fermented formula with non-digestible oligosaccharides for use in rotavirus induced infection CRUM, MARY ABOU NADER 1657 DPOther Non-Final OA 62d Pending Apr 07, 2021
17283287 NUTRITIONAL COMPOSITION COMPRISING 2'FUCOSYLLACTOSE AND DIETARY BUTYRATE CRUM, MARY ABOU NADER 1657 Other Non-Final OA 4d overdue Pending Apr 07, 2021
17270928 Thickened composition for dysphagia patients GWARTNEY, ELIZABETH A 1759 §103 Non-Final OA 30d overdue Pending Feb 24, 2021
16339874 Normalization of the Intestinal Microbiota Composition in Infants or Toddlers Fed with an Amino Acid-Based Nutritional Composition FERNANDEZ, SUSAN EMILY 1651 §103 Non-Final OA 3d overdue Pending Apr 05, 2019

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