Technology area: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Bunge Növényolajipari Zártköruen Muködo Részvénytársaság manages 1 pending office action within the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. This prosecution involves 1 distinct examiner and is situated within 1 distinct art unit. The narrow scope of current activity suggests a focused patenting effort in this specific technical field, with all current examination concentrated in one area. This allows the company to dedicate its resources to a single technical conversation with the patent office.
ARMSTRONG, SUSANNAH SIPPLE is the busiest examiner for the company, currently handling 1 pending office action. This action constitutes the entirety of the pending workload for the portfolio. Because the activity is limited to 1 distinct art unit, the prosecution is currently confined to a single specialized group within the patent office. This concentration allows the company to focus its prosecution resources on the specific requirements and trends of this individual examiner and art unit. Practitioners should note that such a focused portfolio requires a deep understanding of the specific art unit's precedents to successfully navigate the 1 pending office action.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (100%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ARMSTRONG, SUSANNAH SIPPLE | 1 | 30.0% | +53.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18571557 | PROCESS FOR PREPARING A GEL COMPOSITION | ARMSTRONG, SUSANNAH SIPPLE | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18571557 | PROCESS FOR PREPARING A GEL COMPOSITION | ARMSTRONG, SUSANNAH SIPPLE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1616 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18571557 | PROCESS FOR PREPARING A GEL COMPOSITION | ARMSTRONG, SUSANNAH SIPPLE | 1616 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 18, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialBunge Növényolajipari Zártköruen Muködo Részvénytársaság has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Susannah Sipple Armstrong has the most, with 1 of Bunge Növényolajipari Zártköruen Muködo Részvénytársaság's pending office actions.
Mostly Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals (USPTO Tech Center 1600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
