Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Computing & Software • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
10 pending office actions • 8 art units • 9 examiners • 0 of 10 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
BASF Corporation is currently managing 10 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These 10 actions are distributed among 9 distinct examiners, indicating a very broad and fragmented prosecution landscape. MOHAMMAD K ISLAM is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, holding 2 pending office actions, while the remaining 8 actions are each handled by a different examiner.
The 10 pending office actions are spread across 8 distinct art units, which shows an exceptionally high level of technical diversity within the portfolio. With 9 examiners and 8 art units involved in 10 pending actions, the company must navigate many different sets of examiner expectations and technical standards simultaneously. This profile suggests a complex prosecution environment where almost every pending matter requires a unique approach tailored to a specific examiner and art unit.
Practitioners should note that MOHAMMAD K ISLAM is the only examiner with more than one pending office action, holding 2 of the 10 total. The high number of 8 art units for only 10 actions means that technical precedents from one case may not apply to others. Managing this portfolio requires a highly individualized strategy for each of the 10 pending office actions to account for the wide variety of examiners and technical groups.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 6 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. 6 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 |
|---|---|
| §101 only | 1 (10%) |
| §101 + other | 5 (50%) |
| §103 only | 3 (30%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (10%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ISLAM, MOHAMMAD K | 2 | 82.9% | +17.2% |
| BUTLER, RODNEY ALLEN | 1 | 88.2% | +10.9% |
| ALIZADA, OMEED | 1 | 77.4% | +32.7% |
| RUSS, COREY V | 1 | 27.1% | +38.6% |
| AKHAVANNIK, HADI | 1 | 85.9% | +13.1% |
| HUTCHENS, CHRISTOPHER D. | 1 | 65.5% | +11.6% |
| KAKARLA, BHASKAR | 1 | 33.3% | +0.0% |
| XIA, XUYANG | 1 | 72.5% | +52.3% |
| OCHOA, JUAN CARLOS | 1 | 67.3% | +22.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18994290 | SMART SPRAYER LOGGING | BUTLER, RODNEY ALLEN | 30d |
| 18832403 | PLANT DISEASE DETECTION AT ONSET STAGE | AKHAVANNIK, HADI | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18283633 | COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED METHOD FOR PROVIDING CORRECTED PLANT-RELATED INDEX DATA | ISLAM, MOHAMMAD K | 6d |
| 17910073 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING A PLANT PROTECTION TREATMENT PLAN OF AN AGRICULTURAL PLANT | OCHOA, JUAN CARLOS | 6d |
| 18855154 | COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED METHOD FOR CROSS-ACCOUNT MODEL DEPLOYMENT, COMPUTER PROGRAM ELEMENT AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM | RUSS, COREY V | 14d |
| 18571523 | TARGETED TREATMENT OF SPECIFIC WEED SPECIES WITH MULTIPLE TREATMENT DEVICES | KAKARLA, BHASKAR | 26d |
| 18703091 | MONITORING THE TREATMENT OF AN AGRICULTURAL FIELD | HUTCHENS, CHRISTOPHER D. | 42d |
| 18873189 | PULSE WIDTH MODULATION FOR DOSE RATE ADAPTION | ALIZADA, OMEED | — |
| 18721585 | A COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED METHOD FOR GENERATING A SOIL PROPERTY MAP OF AN AGRICULTURAL FIELD | ISLAM, MOHAMMAD K | — |
| 18561022 | METHOD FOR GENERATING A ZONE SPECIFIC APPLICATION MAP FOR TREATING AN AGRICULTURAL FIELD WITH PRODUCTS | XIA, XUYANG | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18283633 | COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED METHOD FOR PROVIDING CORRECTED PLANT-RELATED INDEX DATA | ISLAM, MOHAMMAD K | 6d |
| 17910073 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING A PLANT PROTECTION TREATMENT PLAN OF AN AGRICULTURAL PLANT | OCHOA, JUAN CARLOS | 6d |
| 18855154 | COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED METHOD FOR CROSS-ACCOUNT MODEL DEPLOYMENT, COMPUTER PROGRAM ELEMENT AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM | RUSS, COREY V | 14d |
| 18994290 | SMART SPRAYER LOGGING | BUTLER, RODNEY ALLEN | 30d |
| 18703091 | MONITORING THE TREATMENT OF AN AGRICULTURAL FIELD | HUTCHENS, CHRISTOPHER D. | 42d |
| 18873189 | PULSE WIDTH MODULATION FOR DOSE RATE ADAPTION | ALIZADA, OMEED | — |
| 18832403 | PLANT DISEASE DETECTION AT ONSET STAGE | AKHAVANNIK, HADI | — |
| 18721585 | A COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED METHOD FOR GENERATING A SOIL PROPERTY MAP OF AN AGRICULTURAL FIELD | ISLAM, MOHAMMAD K | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3666 | 1 |
| 3643 | 1 |
| 3629 | 1 |
| 2676 | 1 |
| 3647 | 1 |
| 2116 | 1 |
| 2857 | 1 |
| 2186 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18994290 | SMART SPRAYER LOGGING | BUTLER, RODNEY ALLEN | 3666 | §103 | Final Rejection | 30d | Pending | Jan 14, 2025 |
| 18873189 | PULSE WIDTH MODULATION FOR DOSE RATE ADAPTION | ALIZADA, OMEED | 3643 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 09, 2024 |
| 18855154 | COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED METHOD FOR CROSS-ACCOUNT MODEL DEPLOYMENT, COMPUTER PROGRAM ELEMENT AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM | RUSS, COREY V | 3629 | §103 | Final Rejection | 14d | Pending | Oct 08, 2024 |
| 18832403 | PLANT DISEASE DETECTION AT ONSET STAGE | AKHAVANNIK, HADI | 2676 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 23, 2024 |
| 18721585 | A COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED METHOD FOR GENERATING A SOIL PROPERTY MAP OF AN AGRICULTURAL FIELD | ISLAM, MOHAMMAD K | — | §101§102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 18, 2024 |
| 18703091 | MONITORING THE TREATMENT OF AN AGRICULTURAL FIELD | HUTCHENS, CHRISTOPHER D. | 3647 | §102§112 | Final Rejection | 42d | Pending | Apr 19, 2024 |
| 18571523 | TARGETED TREATMENT OF SPECIFIC WEED SPECIES WITH MULTIPLE TREATMENT DEVICES | KAKARLA, BHASKAR | 2116 | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 26d | Pending | Dec 18, 2023 |
| 18561022 | METHOD FOR GENERATING A ZONE SPECIFIC APPLICATION MAP FOR TREATING AN AGRICULTURAL FIELD WITH PRODUCTS | XIA, XUYANG | — | §101§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 15, 2023 |
| 18283633 | COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED METHOD FOR PROVIDING CORRECTED PLANT-RELATED INDEX DATA | ISLAM, MOHAMMAD K | 2857 | §101§102§103 | Final Rejection | 6d | Pending | Sep 22, 2023 |
| 17910073 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING A PLANT PROTECTION TREATMENT PLAN OF AN AGRICULTURAL PLANT | OCHOA, JUAN CARLOS | 2186 | §101 | Final Rejection | 6d | Pending | Sep 08, 2022 |
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