Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

China Agricultural University

10 pending office actions • 9 art units • 9 examiners • 0 of 10 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 21 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

10
Total Pending OAs
6
Non-Final OAs
2
Final Rejections
2
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 10 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

7
Overdue
0
Due this week
2
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
1
Due later

Deadline Fire Line

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. 10 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (7)Due ≤ 30 days (2)Due later (1)

Case Difficulty Mix

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.

1
Hard (10%)
6
Medium (60%)
1
Easy (10%)
2
Unknown (20%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only1 (10%)
§103 only5 (50%)
§102 only1 (10%)
§112 only1 (10%)
No statute on record2 (20%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

9
Life Sciences
90% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
1
Semiconductors
10% of docket
0
Mechanical / Eng
0% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

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.

100 h
Manual time on pending OAs
20 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
35 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.9 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
SMITH, JENNIFER A 2 61.6% +25.7%
LIU, DEBORAH YANG-HAO 1 2.6% -3.2%
FRONDA, CHRISTIAN L 1 82.4% +14.1%
WOITACH, JOSEPH T 1 49.1% +27.5%
IBRAHIM, MEDINA AHMED 1 87.6% +11.8%
SWIFT, CANDICE LEE 1 58.3% +38.5%
FAYE, MAMADOU 1 78.3% +7.1%
BRANDSEN, BENJAMIN MICHAEL 1 61.5% +17.0%
KARUNASENA, ENUSHA 1

Quick Wins (1)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18990889 Novel CRISPR-Cas delta enzyme and system FRONDA, CHRISTIAN L 59d overdue

Hard Cases (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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18935641 10K LIQUID-PHASE CHIP FOR PIGS BASED ON MULTIPLE SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISMS WOITACH, JOSEPH T 293d overdue
19075760 PROCESSING METHOD OF LACTIC ACID FERMENTED FOOD LIU, DEBORAH YANG-HAO 17d overdue

Interview Candidates (7)

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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18935641 10K LIQUID-PHASE CHIP FOR PIGS BASED ON MULTIPLE SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISMS WOITACH, JOSEPH T 293d overdue
18041468 FERTILIZER COMPOSITION CONTAINING CARBOHYDRATE AND PHOSPHORUS, PREPARATION METHOD AND USE THEREOF SMITH, JENNIFER A 70d overdue
18990889 Novel CRISPR-Cas delta enzyme and system FRONDA, CHRISTIAN L 59d overdue
18031525 NOVEL SUGAR- AND PHOSPHORUS-CONTAINING FERTILIZER SMITH, JENNIFER A 16d overdue
18797940 ZMWAK-RLK PROTEIN RELATED TO GRAY LEAF SPOT RESISTANCE, AND ENCODING GENE AND APPLICATION THEREOF IBRAHIM, MEDINA AHMED 9d
18393145 Preparation Method and Enrichment Method for Cyanidin-3-Diglucoside-5-Glucoside SWIFT, CANDICE LEE 22d
18449727 COMPOSITE SOLUTION FOR ENHANCING INDUCED DISEASE RESISTANCE OF LENTINAN (LNT) TO PLANT, PREPARATION METHOD OF COMPOSITE SOLUTION, AND METHOD FOR ENHANCING INDUCED DISEASE RESISTANCE OF LNT TO PLANT BRANDSEN, BENJAMIN MICHAEL 69d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1731 2
1791 1
1652 1
1687 1
1662 1
1657 1
2884 1
1693 1
1653 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19075760 PROCESSING METHOD OF LACTIC ACID FERMENTED FOOD LIU, DEBORAH YANG-HAO 1791 §103 Non-Final OA 17d overdue Pending Mar 10, 2025
18990889 Novel CRISPR-Cas delta enzyme and system FRONDA, CHRISTIAN L 1652 §112 Non-Final OA 59d overdue Pending Dec 20, 2024
18935641 10K LIQUID-PHASE CHIP FOR PIGS BASED ON MULTIPLE SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISMS WOITACH, JOSEPH T 1687 §101 Non-Final OA 293d overdue Pending Nov 03, 2024
18797940 ZMWAK-RLK PROTEIN RELATED TO GRAY LEAF SPOT RESISTANCE, AND ENCODING GENE AND APPLICATION THEREOF IBRAHIM, MEDINA AHMED 1662 Other Non-Final OA 9d Pending Aug 08, 2024
18393145 Preparation Method and Enrichment Method for Cyanidin-3-Diglucoside-5-Glucoside SWIFT, CANDICE LEE 1657 Other Final Rejection 22d Pending Dec 21, 2023
18541663 WATER QUALITY EARLY WARNING SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AQUAPONICS BASED ON ZEBRAFISH BEHAVIOR ANALYSIS FAYE, MAMADOU 2884 §103 Non-Final OA 28d overdue Pending Dec 15, 2023
18449727 COMPOSITE SOLUTION FOR ENHANCING INDUCED DISEASE RESISTANCE OF LENTINAN (LNT) TO PLANT, PREPARATION METHOD OF COMPOSITE SOLUTION, AND METHOD FOR ENHANCING INDUCED DISEASE RESISTANCE OF LNT TO PLANT BRANDSEN, BENJAMIN MICHAEL 1693 §103 Non-Final OA 69d Pending Aug 15, 2023
18325900 Endophytic Pediococcus pentosaceus EL5 in alfalfa and application thereof KARUNASENA, ENUSHA 1653 §103 Non-Final OA 2d overdue Pending May 30, 2023
18031525 NOVEL SUGAR- AND PHOSPHORUS-CONTAINING FERTILIZER SMITH, JENNIFER A 1731 §103 Non-Final OA 16d overdue Pending Apr 12, 2023
18041468 FERTILIZER COMPOSITION CONTAINING CARBOHYDRATE AND PHOSPHORUS, PREPARATION METHOD AND USE THEREOF SMITH, JENNIFER A 1731 §102 Final Rejection 70d overdue Pending Feb 13, 2023

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