Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals
17 pending office actions • 12 art units • 16 examiners • 0 of 17 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 8 patents granted in the last 365 days
ADAMA Agricultural Solutions Ltd. manages 18 pending office actions in the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. These actions are assigned to 17 distinct examiners, showing that nearly every pending matter is being reviewed by a different official. This distribution of 17 distinct examiners for 18 pending office actions requires the company to address a variety of examiner styles and technical interpretations. Practitioners must be prepared to navigate these different perspectives across the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals portfolio.
The workload is spread across 12 distinct art units, reflecting the technical diversity of the company's agricultural and pharmaceutical innovations. Dongxiu Zhang Spiering is the busiest examiner, currently overseeing 2 pending office actions. This makes her the examiner responsible for 2 of the 18 total pending matters. The presence of 12 distinct art units indicates that the company's research falls into many different specialized administrative categories within the USPTO.
With 17 distinct examiners and 12 distinct art units, the prosecution environment is decentralized. The company must coordinate its strategy across 12 different administrative divisions to ensure consistency. The presence of 18 pending office actions across such an array of examiners and units highlights the complexity of managing this portfolio. Applicants should focus on the specific requirements of each of the 12 distinct art units while addressing the feedback from the 17 distinct examiners involved in the 18 pending office actions. The 2 actions under Dongxiu Zhang Spiering provide a rare point of overlap.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 8 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. 8 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 | 4 (24%) |
| §102 only | 1 (6%) |
| §112 only | 2 (12%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 3 (18%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 7 (41%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ZHANG SPIERING, DONGXIU | 2 | 45.2% | +70.9% |
| WELLS, LAUREN QUINLAN | 1 | 48.4% | +60.3% |
| OTTON, ALICIA L | 1 | 64.9% | +9.4% |
| KIM, DANIELLE A | 1 | 37.1% | +56.3% |
| LEWIS, PATRICK T | 1 | 74.0% | +14.5% |
| STEINKE, SEAN JAMES | 1 | 12.5% | +42.9% |
| YOO, SUN JAE | 1 | 71.1% | +0.3% |
| SHIM, DAVID M. | 1 | 58.3% | +58.3% |
| SEAMAN, D MARGARET M | 1 | 76.5% | +8.0% |
| LIPPERT, JOHN WILLIAM | 1 | 58.2% | +40.0% |
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 |
| 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 | — |
| 18255502 | DITHIOCARBAMATE FUNGICIDE COMPOSITION | ZHANG SPIERING, DONGXIU | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18553658 | PESTICIDAL MIXTURES | LIPPERT, JOHN WILLIAM | 23d overdue |
| 18570401 | NOVALURON SOLID COMPOSITION | ZHANG SPIERING, DONGXIU | 49d |
| 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 | — |
| 18578908 | METHOD OF PREPARING OF ARTHROPODICIDAL OXADIAZINE INTERMEDIATE | SHIM, DAVID M. | — |
| 18255502 | DITHIOCARBAMATE FUNGICIDE COMPOSITION | ZHANG SPIERING, DONGXIU | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1616 | 3 |
| 1629 | 1 |
| 1613 | 1 |
| 1619 | 1 |
| 1626 | 1 |
| 1625 | 1 |
| 1615 | 1 |
| 1621 | 1 |
| 1612 | 1 |
| 1617 | 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 | — | §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 | — | §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 | — | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 10, 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 |
| 18551665 | SPIROTETRAMAT COMPOSITIONS COMPRISING ADJUVANTS | SCHLIENTZ, NATHAN W | 1616 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 21, 2023 |
| 18255502 | DITHIOCARBAMATE FUNGICIDE COMPOSITION | ZHANG SPIERING, DONGXIU | 1616 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 09, 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 |
| 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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