Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
12 pending office actions • 1 client • 11 examiners • 4 art units • 0 of 12 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
DORITY & MANNING, PA & SOCIETE DES PRODUITS NESTLE has 10 pending office actions in Chemistry & Materials and 28426 career applications. The record reflects ongoing prosecution in a chemistry and materials setting, with a broader application history that may include compositions, formulations, processing methods, or material properties.
The resolved allowance rate is 88.25%, and the average is 3.38 office actions per allowance. These measures provide context for evaluating prosecution outcomes across the recorded application history, while the pending-action figure identifies current work requiring attention. The data supports a combined review of active docket management and historical examination activity.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 6 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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. 6 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 | 3 (25%) |
| §112 only | 1 (8%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 8 (67%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MERRIAM, ANDREW E | 2 | 28.3% | +33.9% |
| GWARTNEY, ELIZABETH A | 1 | 36.0% | +34.9% |
| WATTS, JENNA A | 1 | 48.6% | +54.0% |
| MCNEIL, JENNIFER C | 1 | 23.7% | +20.0% |
| LI, CHANGQING | 1 | 29.2% | +33.1% |
| NGUYEN, THANH H | 1 | 18.5% | +34.3% |
| TRAN, LIEN THUY | 1 | 28.7% | +26.5% |
| JACOBSON, MICHELE LYNN | 1 | 28.1% | +33.9% |
| YOO, HONG THI | 1 | 46.0% | +25.3% |
| KERSHAW, KELLY P | 1 | 17.7% | +16.0% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17999237 | FOAMING CREAMER | KERSHAW, KELLY P | 26d overdue |
| 16462808 | CREAMERS COMPOSITIONS | O'HERN, BRENT T | 9d overdue |
| 18545906 | AERATED CREAMERS, PACKAGED READY-TO-USE AERATED CREAMERS, AND METHODS OF MAKING AND USING SUCH CREAMERS | WATTS, JENNA A | 4d overdue |
| 18571885 | SOLUBLE COFFEE POWDER | MCNEIL, JENNIFER C | 12d |
| 18694891 | INCREASING HYDROLYSIS EFFICIENCY IN CEREAL PROCESS BY EMPLOYING LYTIC POLYSACCHARIDES MONOOXYGENEASE (LPMO) IN COMBINATION WITH PROTEASES | GWARTNEY, ELIZABETH A | 34d |
| 18255762 | FAT REDUCED GROUND MUCILAGINOUS SEEDS AS AFFORDABLE BINDER | TRAN, LIEN THUY | 68d |
| 18720344 | A CHOCOLATE PRODUCT COMPRISING A MILK ANALOGUE PRODUCT | MERRIAM, ANDREW E | — |
| 18565676 | FOOD OR BEVERAGE INGREDIENT COMPOSITION | LI, CHANGQING | — |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17999237 | FOAMING CREAMER | KERSHAW, KELLY P | 26d overdue |
| 18545906 | AERATED CREAMERS, PACKAGED READY-TO-USE AERATED CREAMERS, AND METHODS OF MAKING AND USING SUCH CREAMERS | WATTS, JENNA A | 4d overdue |
| 18571885 | SOLUBLE COFFEE POWDER | MCNEIL, JENNIFER C | 12d |
| 18694891 | INCREASING HYDROLYSIS EFFICIENCY IN CEREAL PROCESS BY EMPLOYING LYTIC POLYSACCHARIDES MONOOXYGENEASE (LPMO) IN COMBINATION WITH PROTEASES | GWARTNEY, ELIZABETH A | 34d |
| 18255762 | FAT REDUCED GROUND MUCILAGINOUS SEEDS AS AFFORDABLE BINDER | TRAN, LIEN THUY | 68d |
| 18720344 | A CHOCOLATE PRODUCT COMPRISING A MILK ANALOGUE PRODUCT | MERRIAM, ANDREW E | — |
| 18565676 | FOOD OR BEVERAGE INGREDIENT COMPOSITION | LI, CHANGQING | — |
| 18262634 | AERATED FREEZE-DRIED BABY-SNACK | NGUYEN, THANH H | — |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| Nestlé S.A. | 12 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1791 | 5 |
| 1793 | 4 |
| 1792 | 2 |
| 1759 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18720344 | A CHOCOLATE PRODUCT COMPRISING A MILK ANALOGUE PRODUCT | Société des Produits Nestlé S.A. | MERRIAM, ANDREW E | 1791 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 14, 2024 |
| 18694891 | INCREASING HYDROLYSIS EFFICIENCY IN CEREAL PROCESS BY EMPLOYING LYTIC POLYSACCHARIDES MONOOXYGENEASE (LPMO) IN COMBINATION WITH PROTEASES | Société des Produits Nestlé S.A. | GWARTNEY, ELIZABETH A | 1759 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 34d | Pending | Mar 22, 2024 |
| 18545906 | AERATED CREAMERS, PACKAGED READY-TO-USE AERATED CREAMERS, AND METHODS OF MAKING AND USING SUCH CREAMERS | Société des Produits Nestlé S.A. | WATTS, JENNA A | 1791 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 4d overdue | Pending | Dec 19, 2023 |
| 18571885 | SOLUBLE COFFEE POWDER | Société des Produits Nestlé S.A. | MCNEIL, JENNIFER C | 1793 | §112 | Final Rejection | 12d | Pending | Dec 19, 2023 |
| 18565676 | FOOD OR BEVERAGE INGREDIENT COMPOSITION | Société des Produits Nestlé S.A. | LI, CHANGQING | 1791 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 30, 2023 |
| 18262634 | AERATED FREEZE-DRIED BABY-SNACK | Société des Produits Nestlé S.A. | NGUYEN, THANH H | 1792 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 24, 2023 |
| 18255762 | FAT REDUCED GROUND MUCILAGINOUS SEEDS AS AFFORDABLE BINDER | Société des Produits Nestlé S.A. | TRAN, LIEN THUY | 1793 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 68d | Pending | Jun 02, 2023 |
| 18044658 | PLANT BASED SOFT SERVE FROZEN DESSERT COMPOSITION | Société des Produits Nestlé S.A. | MERRIAM, ANDREW E | 1791 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 09, 2023 |
| 18006613 | COFFEE BEVERAGE PRODUCT AND METHOD OF PREPARING THEREOF | Société des Produits Nestlé S.A. | JACOBSON, MICHELE LYNN | 1793 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 24, 2023 |
| 18002750 | FERMENTED BEVERAGE COMPOSITION | Société des Produits Nestlé S.A. | YOO, HONG THI | 1792 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 21, 2022 |
| 17999237 | FOAMING CREAMER | Société des Produits Nestlé S.A. | KERSHAW, KELLY P | 1791 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 26d overdue | Pending | Nov 18, 2022 |
| 16462808 | CREAMERS COMPOSITIONS | Société des Produits Nestlé S.A. | O'HERN, BRENT T | 1793 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 9d overdue | Pending | May 21, 2019 |
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Start Free Trial88.2% of resolved applications prosecuted by Dority & Manning, Pa & Societe Des Produits Nestle were allowed, across 28,426 applications in USPTO records.
3.38 office actions per allowed application on average.
12 pending office actions as of October 2026, for 1 client, before 11 examiners in 4 art units.
