Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
2 pending office actions • 0 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 8 patents granted in the last 365 days
Anhui Agricultural University currently has 2 pending office actions in its patent portfolio. These actions are split between 2 distinct examiners, showing that each examiner is currently reviewing a single application for the institution. This distribution prevents any single individual from controlling the entirety of the university's active prosecution. The busiest examiner, LANGEL, WAYNE A, is assigned 1 busiest examiner pending action. This accounts for 1 of the pending office actions total. With 2 distinct examiners involved, the university's legal strategy must account for the different perspectives of LANGEL, WAYNE A and the other assigned official.
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 (50%) |
| §112 only | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LANGEL, WAYNE A | 1 | 78.4% | +23.2% |
| SMITH, JENNIFER JOY | 1 | — | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18220800 | METHOD, APPARATUS, DEVICE AND MEDIUM FOR THE IDENTIFICATION OF CANDIDATE GENES THAT REGULATE THE SHAPE OF BACTERIA | SMITH, JENNIFER JOY | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18407310 | BREVUNDIMONAS AND USE THEREOF IN TEA PLANT PLANTING | LANGEL, WAYNE A | — |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18407310 | BREVUNDIMONAS AND USE THEREOF IN TEA PLANT PLANTING | LANGEL, WAYNE A | — | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 08, 2024 |
| 18220800 | METHOD, APPARATUS, DEVICE AND MEDIUM FOR THE IDENTIFICATION OF CANDIDATE GENES THAT REGULATE THE SHAPE OF BACTERIA | SMITH, JENNIFER JOY | — | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 11, 2023 |
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