Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Computing & Software
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
China National Rice Research Institute has 3 pending office actions in Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals. The matters involve 3 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units, so each current action is handled through a separate examiner and examination-group context. Counsel should coordinate the portfolio’s biological terminology while preparing responses that reflect each application’s individual technical record.
ARMSTRONG, SUSANNAH SIPPLE is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. The examiner handles one of the current actions, and no examiner concentration is shown beyond that assignment. A distributed workflow should address the scientific issues separately while preserving consistent treatment of related biological or pharmaceutical concepts.
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 (33%) |
| §112 only | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (33%) |
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% |
| WILLIAMS, KEITH RICHARD | 1 | 50.0% | +0.0% |
| STCLAIR, ANDREW D | 1 | 60.1% | +25.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18340910 | Use of rice OsPR6 gene or protein encoded thereby in regulating resistance of rice to Magnaporthe oryzae | STCLAIR, ANDREW D | 388d overdue |
| 18818026 | METHOD FOR RAISING RICE SEEDLINGS IN BLOCK MATRIX COTTON BASED ON WALNUT GREEN PEEL FERMENTATION EXTRACT | ARMSTRONG, SUSANNAH SIPPLE | 30d |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18340910 | Use of rice OsPR6 gene or protein encoded thereby in regulating resistance of rice to Magnaporthe oryzae | STCLAIR, ANDREW D | 388d overdue |
| 18818026 | METHOD FOR RAISING RICE SEEDLINGS IN BLOCK MATRIX COTTON BASED ON WALNUT GREEN PEEL FERMENTATION EXTRACT | ARMSTRONG, SUSANNAH SIPPLE | 30d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1616 | 1 |
| 1663 | 1 |
| 2178 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18818026 | METHOD FOR RAISING RICE SEEDLINGS IN BLOCK MATRIX COTTON BASED ON WALNUT GREEN PEEL FERMENTATION EXTRACT | ARMSTRONG, SUSANNAH SIPPLE | 1616 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 30d | Pending | Aug 28, 2024 |
| 18703337 | A METHOD FOR INDUCING HAPLOIDS AND ITS APPLICATION IN PLANT BREEDING | WILLIAMS, KEITH RICHARD | 1663 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 20, 2024 |
| 18340910 | Use of rice OsPR6 gene or protein encoded thereby in regulating resistance of rice to Magnaporthe oryzae | STCLAIR, ANDREW D | 2178 | §101§102§112 | Non-Final OA | 388d overdue | Pending | Jun 26, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialChina National Rice Research Institute has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 3 examiners.
Susannah Sipple Armstrong has the most, with 1 of China National Rice Research Institute's pending office actions.
Mostly Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals (USPTO Tech Center 1600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
