Technology area: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 10 patents granted in the last 365 days
Confluence Genetics LLC has 2 pending office actions in Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals. The actions involve 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units, with no repeated assignment shown.
ROBINSON, HOPE A is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending action. Counsel should treat the matters independently while maintaining consistent technical terminology across the genetics portfolio.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| §112 only | 1 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ROBINSON, HOPE A | 1 | 67.7% | +43.0% |
| KEOGH, MATTHEW R | 1 | 78.5% | +14.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18677865 | Soybean Cultivar 3284306 | KEOGH, MATTHEW R | 26d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18677865 | Soybean Cultivar 3284306 | KEOGH, MATTHEW R | 26d overdue |
| 19334536 | COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR CONTROLLING PLANT PESTS | ROBINSON, HOPE A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1652 | 1 |
| 1663 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19334536 | COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR CONTROLLING PLANT PESTS | ROBINSON, HOPE A | 1652 | §112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 19, 2025 |
| 18677865 | Soybean Cultivar 3284306 | KEOGH, MATTHEW R | 1663 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | 26d overdue | Pending | May 29, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialConfluence Genetics LLC has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Hope A Robinson has the most, with 1 of Confluence Genetics LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals (USPTO Tech Center 1600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
