Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 06, 2026

Neogen Food Safety US Holdco Corporation

6 pending office actions • 5 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 8 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

6
Total Pending OAs
2
Non-Final OAs
4
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

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.

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

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.

2
Hard (33%)
3
Medium (50%)
1
Easy (17%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only1 (17%)
§101 + other1 (17%)
§103 only3 (50%)
§112 only1 (17%)

Industry Mix

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

4
Life Sciences
67% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
2
Mechanical / Eng
33% 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.

60 h
Manual time on pending OAs
12 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
21 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.5 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
COUNTS, GARY W 1 59.1% +29.7%
MISIASZEK, AMBER ALTSCHUL 1 47.0% +24.5%
BRAZIN, JACQUELINE 1 66.1% +53.1%
XU, QING 1 50.7% +54.7%
STRACHAN, KATE ELIZABETH 1 45.5% +30.9%
KWAK, DEAN P 1 58.8% +37.2%

Hard Cases (2)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17904860 HYGIENE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, HYGIENE MANAGEMENT METHOD, AND HYGIENE MANAGEMENT PROGRAM MISIASZEK, AMBER ALTSCHUL 19d
17790527 DEACTIVATION SOLUTION USEABLE FOR MICROORGANISM DETECTION XU, QING

Interview Candidates (6)

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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17904860 HYGIENE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, HYGIENE MANAGEMENT METHOD, AND HYGIENE MANAGEMENT PROGRAM MISIASZEK, AMBER ALTSCHUL 19d
18551159 Compositions and Methods of Detecting Analytes COUNTS, GARY W
17758719 CULTURE DEVICE CONTAINING OXYGEN SENSITIVE LUMINOPHORE AND METHODS OF USING BRAZIN, JACQUELINE
17790527 DEACTIVATION SOLUTION USEABLE FOR MICROORGANISM DETECTION XU, QING
17634476 ARTICLE USEABLE FOR SAMPLING SURFACES FOR MICROORGANISMS AND METHODS OF USE STRACHAN, KATE ELIZABETH
17610670 DEVICE FOR GROWING MICROORGANISMS KWAK, DEAN P

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1798 2
1678 1
3682 1
1656 1
3781 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18551159 Compositions and Methods of Detecting Analytes COUNTS, GARY W 1678 §112 Non-Final OA Pending Sep 18, 2023
17904860 HYGIENE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, HYGIENE MANAGEMENT METHOD, AND HYGIENE MANAGEMENT PROGRAM MISIASZEK, AMBER ALTSCHUL 3682 §101 Final Rejection 19d Pending Aug 23, 2022
17758719 CULTURE DEVICE CONTAINING OXYGEN SENSITIVE LUMINOPHORE AND METHODS OF USING BRAZIN, JACQUELINE 1798 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Jul 13, 2022
17790527 DEACTIVATION SOLUTION USEABLE FOR MICROORGANISM DETECTION XU, QING 1656 §101§103§112 Final Rejection Pending Jul 01, 2022
17634476 ARTICLE USEABLE FOR SAMPLING SURFACES FOR MICROORGANISMS AND METHODS OF USE STRACHAN, KATE ELIZABETH 3781 §103 Final Rejection Pending Feb 10, 2022
17610670 DEVICE FOR GROWING MICROORGANISMS KWAK, DEAN P 1798 §103 Final Rejection Pending Nov 11, 2021

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