Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Ralco Nutrition Inc.

7 pending office actions • 6 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

7
Total Pending OAs
4
Non-Final OAs
3
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 7 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

4
Overdue
1
Due this week
2
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
0
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. 7 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (4)Due ≤ 7 days (1)Due ≤ 30 days (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%)
5
Medium (71%)
1
Easy (14%)
1
Unknown (14%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only5 (71%)
§112 only1 (14%)
No statute on record1 (14%)

Industry Mix

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

7
Life Sciences
100% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% 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.

70 h
Manual time on pending OAs
14 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
24 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.6 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
COHEN, MICHAEL P 1 58.5% +27.6%
SAEED, ALI S 1 30.5% +34.8%
SHIN, MONICA A 1 50.3% +47.0%
BAEK, BONG-SOOK 1 41.3% +69.3%
GLIMM, CARRIE LYNN STOFFEL 1 24.3% +16.4%
JOHNSON, DANIELLE D 1 44.3% +12.6%
DUBOIS, PHILIP A 1 25.0% +25.4%

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
17185438 COMPOSITIONS BASED ON DIETARY FIBERS AND ESSENTIAL OILS GLIMM, CARRIE LYNN STOFFEL 97d overdue
16554535 FEED COMPOSITIONS AND FEED ADDITIVE COMPOSITIONS FOR AQUACULTURE SPECIES DUBOIS, PHILIP A 1d overdue

Interview Candidates (7)

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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17185438 COMPOSITIONS BASED ON DIETARY FIBERS AND ESSENTIAL OILS GLIMM, CARRIE LYNN STOFFEL 97d overdue
18138405 AGRICULTURE COMPOSITIONS AND APPLICATIONS UTILIZING MINERAL COMPOUNDS SHIN, MONICA A 44d overdue
18406327 ANTIVIRAL COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS COHEN, MICHAEL P 10d overdue
16554535 FEED COMPOSITIONS AND FEED ADDITIVE COMPOSITIONS FOR AQUACULTURE SPECIES DUBOIS, PHILIP A 1d overdue
17215677 FEED MITIGANT COMPOSITIONS FOR INACTIVATING SWINE VIRUSES AND RELATED METHODS BAEK, BONG-SOOK 6d
17106969 ORGANICALLY CHELATED MINERAL COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS THEREOF JOHNSON, DANIELLE D 9d
18208496 MACRONUTRIENT COMPOUNDS SAEED, ALI S 12d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1616 2
1612 1
1611 1
1793 1
1617 1
1791 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18406327 ANTIVIRAL COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS COHEN, MICHAEL P 1612 §103 Final Rejection 10d overdue Pending Jan 08, 2024
18208496 MACRONUTRIENT COMPOUNDS SAEED, ALI S 1616 §103 Non-Final OA 12d Pending Jun 12, 2023
18138405 AGRICULTURE COMPOSITIONS AND APPLICATIONS UTILIZING MINERAL COMPOUNDS SHIN, MONICA A 1616 §103 Final Rejection 44d overdue Pending Apr 24, 2023
17215677 FEED MITIGANT COMPOSITIONS FOR INACTIVATING SWINE VIRUSES AND RELATED METHODS BAEK, BONG-SOOK 1611 Other Non-Final OA 6d Pending Mar 29, 2021
17185438 COMPOSITIONS BASED ON DIETARY FIBERS AND ESSENTIAL OILS GLIMM, CARRIE LYNN STOFFEL 1793 §103 Final Rejection 97d overdue Pending Feb 25, 2021
17106969 ORGANICALLY CHELATED MINERAL COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS THEREOF JOHNSON, DANIELLE D 1617 §103 Non-Final OA 9d Pending Nov 30, 2020
16554535 FEED COMPOSITIONS AND FEED ADDITIVE COMPOSITIONS FOR AQUACULTURE SPECIES DUBOIS, PHILIP A 1791 §112 Non-Final OA 1d overdue Pending Aug 28, 2019

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