Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Computing & Software
4 pending office actions • 3 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
China National Rice Research Institute currently manages 4 pending office actions within the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. These matters are distributed among 4 distinct examiners. This distribution indicates that each examiner is responsible for exactly one pending matter for the institute.
The portfolio's current activity is spread across 3 distinct art units. This variety suggests that the pending office actions cover several technical specialties within Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals. SUSANNAH SIPPLE ARMSTRONG is identified as the busiest examiner for the institute. This examiner is currently handling 1 pending office action.
Because SUSANNAH SIPPLE ARMSTRONG and the other distinct examiners each handle a single pending office action, the workload is evenly distributed. The 3 distinct art units require the institute to maintain strategies across multiple administrative environments. The total 4 pending office actions represent the current workload for the institute's patent prosecution efforts.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 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. 3 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 + other | 1 (25%) |
| §103 only | 1 (25%) |
| §112 only | 1 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ARMSTRONG, SUSANNAH SIPPLE | 1 | 30.0% | +53.1% |
| WILLIAMS, KEITH RICHARD | 1 | 50.0% | +0.0% |
| PAGE, BRENT T | 1 | 82.4% | +10.8% |
| STCLAIR, ANDREW D | 1 | 60.2% | +25.3% |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18261198 | A PLANT BREEDING METHOD UTILIZING POLYPLOID HETEROSIS | PAGE, BRENT T | 44d overdue |
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 3 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 |
| 18261198 | A PLANT BREEDING METHOD UTILIZING POLYPLOID HETEROSIS | PAGE, BRENT T | 44d 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 |
|---|---|
| 1663 | 2 |
| 1616 | 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 |
| 18261198 | A PLANT BREEDING METHOD UTILIZING POLYPLOID HETEROSIS | PAGE, BRENT T | 1663 | §103 | Final Rejection | 44d overdue | Pending | Jul 12, 2023 |
| 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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