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 • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Cas Center For Excellence In Molecular Plant Sciences operates within the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area, currently managing 4 pending office actions. These actions are distributed across 4 distinct examiners, showing that each examiner is responsible for a single matter. This distribution suggests that no single examiner holds the bulk of the company's active workload, as even the busiest examiner, SHEN, YANXIN NMN, is only responsible for 1 pending office action.
The portfolio's activity spans 2 distinct art units, which indicates technical diversity within its specialized field. Because the 4 pending office actions are spread across 4 distinct examiners, the company must navigate multiple individual examination styles simultaneously. The presence of 2 distinct art units further suggests that while the focus remains on Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals, the specific technical challenges vary across the active matters.
With SHEN, YANXIN NMN handling 1 pending office action, the workload is split among the 4 distinct examiners. This lack of concentration means that the overall prosecution strategy is not reliant on the tendencies of a single individual. Instead, the 4 pending office actions represent a decentralized set of interactions across the 2 distinct art units involved.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 4 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. 4 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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 1 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (50%) |
| No statute on record | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SHEN, YANXIN NMN | 1 | 90.0% | +22.5% |
| MEADOWS, CHRISTINA L | 1 | 76.1% | +23.2% |
| RADOSAVLJEVIC, ALEKSANDAR | 1 | 81.7% | +8.7% |
| BYRNES, DAVID R | 1 | 78.1% | +22.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17786645 | Application of EMBP1 Gene or Protein Thereof | RADOSAVLJEVIC, ALEKSANDAR | 16d overdue |
| 18288069 | Application of Phosphorus Starvation Response Factor PHR2 in Plant and Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Symbiosis and Improving Phosphorus Nutrition | SHEN, YANXIN NMN | 34d |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18001541 | Use of SHR-SCR in Leguminous Cortical Cell Fate Determination and Non-leguminous Cortical Cell Division Potential Modification | MEADOWS, CHRISTINA L | 9d overdue |
| 17050168 | REPEAT-MEDIATED PLANT SITE-SPECIFIC RECOMBINATION METHOD | BYRNES, DAVID R | 1d overdue |
| 18288069 | Application of Phosphorus Starvation Response Factor PHR2 in Plant and Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Symbiosis and Improving Phosphorus Nutrition | SHEN, YANXIN NMN | 34d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1663 | 2 |
| 1662 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18288069 | Application of Phosphorus Starvation Response Factor PHR2 in Plant and Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Symbiosis and Improving Phosphorus Nutrition | SHEN, YANXIN NMN | 1663 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 34d | Pending | Oct 24, 2023 |
| 18001541 | Use of SHR-SCR in Leguminous Cortical Cell Fate Determination and Non-leguminous Cortical Cell Division Potential Modification | MEADOWS, CHRISTINA L | 1663 | §103 | Final Rejection | 9d overdue | Pending | Jul 11, 2023 |
| 17786645 | Application of EMBP1 Gene or Protein Thereof | RADOSAVLJEVIC, ALEKSANDAR | 1662 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 16d overdue | Pending | Jun 17, 2022 |
| 17050168 | REPEAT-MEDIATED PLANT SITE-SPECIFIC RECOMBINATION METHOD | BYRNES, DAVID R | 1662 | — | Final Rejection | 1d overdue | Pending | Oct 23, 2020 |
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