Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals
3 pending office actions • 1 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Agriculture Victoria Services Pty Ltd is currently dealing with 3 pending office actions in the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. These actions are distributed among 3 distinct examiners, yet they all fall within 1 distinct art unit. This suggests that while different individuals are reviewing the cases, they belong to the same technical group.
MARK HELLNER is the busiest examiner for the company, with 1 pending office action. The focus on a single art unit may allow for consistent technical arguments across the different examiners involved.
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.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HELLNER, MARK | 1 | 90.4% | +8.5% |
| STUBBS, JOHN THOMAS | 1 | — | — |
| MACH, ANDRE | 1 | 44.9% | +51.7% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18037211 | DEVICES, COMPOUNDS AND METHODS FOR INSECT CONTROL | MACH, ANDRE | 117d overdue |
| 18700474 | System and Method/Process for In-Field Measurements of Plant Crops | HELLNER, MARK | — |
| 18039356 | Selection Methods | STUBBS, JOHN THOMAS | — |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18037211 | DEVICES, COMPOUNDS AND METHODS FOR INSECT CONTROL | MACH, ANDRE | 117d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1615 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18700474 | System and Method/Process for In-Field Measurements of Plant Crops | HELLNER, MARK | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 11, 2024 |
| 18039356 | Selection Methods | STUBBS, JOHN THOMAS | — | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 30, 2023 |
| 18037211 | DEVICES, COMPOUNDS AND METHODS FOR INSECT CONTROL | MACH, ANDRE | 1615 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 117d overdue | Pending | May 16, 2023 |
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