Technology area: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals
18 pending office actions • 15 art units • 17 examiners • 0 of 18 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 7 patents granted in the last 365 days
ADAMA Agricultural Solutions Ltd. has 18 pending office actions in Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals. Those matters involve 17 distinct examiners and 16 distinct art units, demonstrating broad distribution across the examining corps and technical organization.
STEINKE, SEAN JAMES is the busiest examiner, with 2 pending matters. The modest concentration around that examiner contrasts with the wider spread across 16 art units. Prosecution management should emphasize centralized tracking of recurring scientific and claim issues, while allowing responses to reflect the different examination contexts.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 10 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. 10 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 | 5 (28%) |
| §112 only | 2 (11%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 4 (22%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 7 (39%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| STEINKE, SEAN JAMES | 2 | 12.5% | +42.9% |
| WELLS, LAUREN QUINLAN | 1 | 49.4% | +59.7% |
| OTTON, ALICIA L | 1 | 65.0% | +9.3% |
| KIM, DANIELLE A | 1 | 36.6% | +51.9% |
| LEWIS, PATRICK T | 1 | 74.0% | +14.5% |
| YOO, SUN JAE | 1 | 71.2% | +0.3% |
| WIECZOREK, MICHAEL P | 1 | 55.4% | +16.8% |
| RAO, PADMAJA S | 1 | 70.7% | +36.8% |
| SHIM, DAVID M. | 1 | 58.8% | +58.5% |
| SEAMAN, D MARGARET M | 1 | 76.6% | +8.1% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17789896 | Insecticidal Mixtures | LOVE, TREVOR M | 31d overdue |
| 18009066 | SOLID STATE FORMS OF CYANTRANILIPROLE | STEINKE, SEAN JAMES | 9d |
| 18004603 | FUNGICIDAL MIXTURES | AZPURU, CARLOS A | 13d |
| 18570401 | NOVALURON SOLID COMPOSITION | ZHANG SPIERING, DONGXIU | 49d |
| 18870951 | METHOD OF CONTROLLING NEMATODES | OTTON, ALICIA L | — |
| 18717827 | COMPOSITION CONTAINING A MACROLIDE INSECTICIDAL COMPOUND AND POLYCATIONIC RHEOLOGY MODIFIER | LEWIS, PATRICK T | — |
| 18709409 | DITHIOCARBAMATE FUNGICIDE COMBINATIONS AND COMPOSITIONS THEREOF | STEINKE, SEAN JAMES | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18009066 | SOLID STATE FORMS OF CYANTRANILIPROLE | STEINKE, SEAN JAMES | 9d |
| 18704436 | METHOD AND COMPOSITION FOR REDUCING SOLVENT RELEASE FROM, AND REDUCING ODOR OF, AGROCHEMICAL FORMULATIONS | WIECZOREK, MICHAEL P | 29d |
| 18879103 | INSECTICIDE FORMULATIONS WITH BUILT-IN ADJUVANTS | WELLS, LAUREN QUINLAN | — |
| 18725336 | COMBINATION OF COPPER-BASED FUNGICIDE AND AZOLE FUNGICIDE | KIM, DANIELLE A | — |
| 18717827 | COMPOSITION CONTAINING A MACROLIDE INSECTICIDAL COMPOUND AND POLYCATIONIC RHEOLOGY MODIFIER | LEWIS, PATRICK T | — |
| 18709409 | DITHIOCARBAMATE FUNGICIDE COMBINATIONS AND COMPOSITIONS THEREOF | STEINKE, SEAN JAMES | — |
| 18692018 | PROCESS FOR PREPARING 5-FLUORO-4-IMINO-3-METHYL-1-(TOLUENE-4- SULFONYL)-3,4-DIHYDRO-1H-PYRIMIDIN-2-ONE | RAO, PADMAJA S | — |
| 18578908 | METHOD OF PREPARING OF ARTHROPODICIDAL OXADIAZINE INTERMEDIATE | SHIM, DAVID M. | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1629 | 2 |
| 1619 | 2 |
| 1621 | 2 |
| 1613 | 1 |
| 1691 | 1 |
| 1712 | 1 |
| 1627 | 1 |
| 1626 | 1 |
| 1625 | 1 |
| 1616 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18879103 | INSECTICIDE FORMULATIONS WITH BUILT-IN ADJUVANTS | WELLS, LAUREN QUINLAN | 1629 | §102§103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 26, 2024 |
| 18870951 | METHOD OF CONTROLLING NEMATODES | OTTON, ALICIA L | 1629 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 02, 2024 |
| 18725336 | COMBINATION OF COPPER-BASED FUNGICIDE AND AZOLE FUNGICIDE | KIM, DANIELLE A | 1613 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 28, 2024 |
| 18717827 | COMPOSITION CONTAINING A MACROLIDE INSECTICIDAL COMPOUND AND POLYCATIONIC RHEOLOGY MODIFIER | LEWIS, PATRICK T | 1691 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 07, 2024 |
| 18709409 | DITHIOCARBAMATE FUNGICIDE COMBINATIONS AND COMPOSITIONS THEREOF | STEINKE, SEAN JAMES | 1619 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 10, 2024 |
| 18709372 | PROCESS AND INTERMEDIATES FOR PREPARATION OF ISOFETAMID | YOO, SUN JAE | 1621 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 10, 2024 |
| 18704436 | METHOD AND COMPOSITION FOR REDUCING SOLVENT RELEASE FROM, AND REDUCING ODOR OF, AGROCHEMICAL FORMULATIONS | WIECZOREK, MICHAEL P | 1712 | §103 | Final Rejection | 29d | Pending | Apr 24, 2024 |
| 18692018 | PROCESS FOR PREPARING 5-FLUORO-4-IMINO-3-METHYL-1-(TOLUENE-4- SULFONYL)-3,4-DIHYDRO-1H-PYRIMIDIN-2-ONE | RAO, PADMAJA S | 1627 | §102§103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 14, 2024 |
| 18578908 | METHOD OF PREPARING OF ARTHROPODICIDAL OXADIAZINE INTERMEDIATE | SHIM, DAVID M. | 1626 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 12, 2024 |
| 18576580 | FUNGICIDAL USE | SEAMAN, D MARGARET M | 1625 | §102§103DP | Final Rejection | 30d | Pending | Jan 04, 2024 |
| 18570401 | NOVALURON SOLID COMPOSITION | ZHANG SPIERING, DONGXIU | 1616 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 49d | Pending | Dec 14, 2023 |
| 18553658 | PESTICIDAL MIXTURES | LIPPERT, JOHN WILLIAM | 1615 | §103 | Final Rejection | 23d overdue | Pending | Oct 02, 2023 |
| 18254936 | STABILIZED COMPOSITIONS CONTAINING STROBILURIN FUNGICIDES AND POLYHYDRIC ALCOHOLS | KIM, SEONG JONG | 1621 | §103 | Final Rejection | 14d | Pending | May 30, 2023 |
| 18253814 | TAU-FLUVALINATE COMPOSITIONS | WELLES, COLMAN THOMAS | 1612 | §103§112DP | Non-Final OA | 4d overdue | Pending | May 22, 2023 |
| 18004603 | FUNGICIDAL MIXTURES | AZPURU, CARLOS A | 1617 | §102§112 | Final Rejection | 13d | Pending | Jan 06, 2023 |
| 18009066 | SOLID STATE FORMS OF CYANTRANILIPROLE | STEINKE, SEAN JAMES | 1619 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 9d | Pending | Dec 08, 2022 |
| 17780621 | Packaging For Water-Soluble Unit | JACKSON, MONIQUE R | 1787 | §103 | Final Rejection | 26d | Pending | Dec 08, 2022 |
| 17789896 | Insecticidal Mixtures | LOVE, TREVOR M | 1611 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 31d overdue | Pending | Jun 29, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialADAMA Agricultural Solutions Ltd. has 18 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 15 art units and 17 examiners.
Sean James Steinke has the most, with 2 of ADAMA Agricultural Solutions Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals (USPTO Tech Center 1600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
