Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals
4 pending office actions • 2 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 7 patents granted in the last 365 days
BASF Corporation currently has 4 pending office actions focused in the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. These matters are being reviewed by 4 distinct examiners, which indicates that different perspectives are being applied to the company's pending applications. The portfolio is situated within 2 distinct art units, showing that the filings are grouped within specific technical sub-groups of the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals field.
The busiest examiner for the portfolio is FAN, WEIHUA, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. This 1 pending office action is fewer than the 4 total pending office actions, as the workload is distributed among 4 distinct examiners. This distribution requires the company to navigate different examiner styles while remaining within the 2 distinct art units that define the current prosecution landscape. This strategy allows for a broad evaluation of the company's biotechnological assets.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 (25%) |
| §103 only | 1 (25%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (25%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FAN, WEIHUA | 1 | 83.4% | +12.6% |
| BUI, PHUONG T | 1 | 81.2% | +23.2% |
| BOGGS, RUSSELL T | 1 | 73.2% | +15.1% |
| KOVALENKO, MYKOLA V | 1 | 69.5% | +25.8% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18635710 | DUAL TRANSIT PEPTIDES FOR TARGETING POLYPEPTIDES | BUI, PHUONG T | 56d overdue |
| 18816820 | Plants Having Increased Tolerance to Herbicides | FAN, WEIHUA | 8d |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18419299 | PLANTS HAVING INCREASED TOLERANCE TO HERBICIDES | BOGGS, RUSSELL T | — |
| 18520215 | PLANTS HAVING INCREASED TOLERANCE TO HERBICIDES | KOVALENKO, MYKOLA V | — |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18635710 | DUAL TRANSIT PEPTIDES FOR TARGETING POLYPEPTIDES | BUI, PHUONG T | 56d overdue |
| 18816820 | Plants Having Increased Tolerance to Herbicides | FAN, WEIHUA | 8d |
| 18419299 | PLANTS HAVING INCREASED TOLERANCE TO HERBICIDES | BOGGS, RUSSELL T | — |
| 18520215 | PLANTS HAVING INCREASED TOLERANCE TO HERBICIDES | KOVALENKO, MYKOLA V | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1663 | 3 |
| 1662 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18816820 | Plants Having Increased Tolerance to Herbicides | FAN, WEIHUA | 1663 | DP | Final Rejection | 8d | Pending | Aug 27, 2024 |
| 18635710 | DUAL TRANSIT PEPTIDES FOR TARGETING POLYPEPTIDES | BUI, PHUONG T | 1663 | §103 | Final Rejection | 56d overdue | Pending | Apr 15, 2024 |
| 18419299 | PLANTS HAVING INCREASED TOLERANCE TO HERBICIDES | BOGGS, RUSSELL T | 1663 | §101§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 22, 2024 |
| 18520215 | PLANTS HAVING INCREASED TOLERANCE TO HERBICIDES | KOVALENKO, MYKOLA V | 1662 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 27, 2023 |
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