Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals
13 pending office actions • 9 art units • 13 examiners • 0 of 13 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 17 patents granted in the last 365 days
Corteva Agriscience LLC manages 13 pending office actions in the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. These actions cover 9 distinct art units. The company interacts with 13 distinct examiners for its 13 pending office actions, meaning every pending action is being reviewed by a different individual. This indicates a very broad range of technical subject matter being prosecuted simultaneously within the biotechnology sector.
ZHONG, WAYNESHAOBIN is the busiest examiner, though he handles 1 pending office action. This lack of examiner overlap across 9 distinct art units requires a prosecution strategy that accounts for 13 different individual reviewers. Practitioners must navigate the specific procedural standards of the 9 distinct art units involved. Because no cases currently share the same examiner, each of the 13 pending office actions requires a customized approach. The high number of art units further complicates the landscape, as it suggests the actions are subject to varying procedural standards.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (8%) |
| §103 only | 3 (23%) |
| §112 only | 1 (8%) |
| Double-patenting only | 2 (15%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 6 (46%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ZHONG, WAYNESHAOBIN | 1 | 72.2% | +21.5% |
| SCHLIENTZ, NATHAN W | 1 | 41.3% | -18.9% |
| ARMSTRONG, SUSANNAH SIPPLE | 1 | 30.0% | +53.1% |
| BELL, SARA ELIZABETH | 1 | 68.8% | +38.2% |
| TRUONG, QUANGLONG N | 1 | 78.8% | +23.6% |
| TIEN, LUCY MINYU | 1 | 59.3% | +39.2% |
| MURESAN, ANA Z | 1 | 75.0% | +31.3% |
| PATEL, SAGAR S | 1 | 75.7% | +34.6% |
| SULLIVAN, BRIAN JAMES | 1 | 76.9% | +14.4% |
| KOSAR, ANDREW D | 1 | 42.0% | +31.8% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18262233 | PROCESSES RELATED TO FORMATION OF N-(3-CHLORO-1-(PYRIDIN-3-YL)-1H-PYRAZOL-4-YL)-2-(METHYLSULFONYL)PROPANAMIDE | KOSAR, ANDREW D | 53d overdue |
| 18554687 | METHOD OF INHIBITING FLOWERING OF SUGARCANE | TIEN, LUCY MINYU | 4d overdue |
| 18940054 | GENERATION OF SITE SPECIFIC INTEGRATION SITES FOR COMPLEX TRAIT LOCI IN CORN AND SOYBEAN, AND METHODS OF USE | ZHONG, WAYNESHAOBIN | — |
| 18650262 | PESTICIDAL COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS | ARMSTRONG, SUSANNAH SIPPLE | — |
| 18263801 | AUXINIC HERBICIDES AND METHODS OF USE THEREOF | MURESAN, ANA Z | — |
| 18355483 | SELECTION BASED ON OPTIMAL HAPLOID VALUE TO CREATE ELITE LINES | SULLIVAN, BRIAN JAMES | — |
| 18246899 | RAPID TRANSFORMATION OF MONOCOT LEAF EXPLANTS | MCWILLIAMS, KELSEY LYNN | — |
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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18262233 | PROCESSES RELATED TO FORMATION OF N-(3-CHLORO-1-(PYRIDIN-3-YL)-1H-PYRAZOL-4-YL)-2-(METHYLSULFONYL)PROPANAMIDE | KOSAR, ANDREW D | 53d overdue |
| 18263227 | CYCLOPROPYLAMIDE COMPOUNDS AGAINST PARASITES IN FISH | PATEL, SAGAR S | 5d overdue |
| 18554687 | METHOD OF INHIBITING FLOWERING OF SUGARCANE | TIEN, LUCY MINYU | 4d overdue |
| 18940054 | GENERATION OF SITE SPECIFIC INTEGRATION SITES FOR COMPLEX TRAIT LOCI IN CORN AND SOYBEAN, AND METHODS OF USE | ZHONG, WAYNESHAOBIN | — |
| 18650262 | PESTICIDAL COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS | ARMSTRONG, SUSANNAH SIPPLE | — |
| 18294307 | POLYMORPHS HAVING PESTICIDAL ACTIVITY | BELL, SARA ELIZABETH | — |
| 18554691 | METHOD OF INCREASING SUGAR PRODUCTION FROM SUGARCANE | TRUONG, QUANGLONG N | — |
| 18263801 | AUXINIC HERBICIDES AND METHODS OF USE THEREOF | MURESAN, ANA Z | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1616 | 2 |
| 1625 | 2 |
| 1663 | 2 |
| 1662 | 1 |
| 1615 | 1 |
| 1612 | 1 |
| 1692 | 1 |
| 1626 | 1 |
| 1617 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18940054 | GENERATION OF SITE SPECIFIC INTEGRATION SITES FOR COMPLEX TRAIT LOCI IN CORN AND SOYBEAN, AND METHODS OF USE | ZHONG, WAYNESHAOBIN | 1662 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 07, 2024 |
| 18823970 | PICOLINAMIDE COMPOUNDS WITH FUNGICIDAL ACTIVITY | SCHLIENTZ, NATHAN W | — | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 04, 2024 |
| 18650262 | PESTICIDAL COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS | ARMSTRONG, SUSANNAH SIPPLE | 1616 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 30, 2024 |
| 18294307 | POLYMORPHS HAVING PESTICIDAL ACTIVITY | BELL, SARA ELIZABETH | 1625 | §112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 01, 2024 |
| 18554691 | METHOD OF INCREASING SUGAR PRODUCTION FROM SUGARCANE | TRUONG, QUANGLONG N | 1615 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 10, 2023 |
| 18554687 | METHOD OF INHIBITING FLOWERING OF SUGARCANE | TIEN, LUCY MINYU | 1612 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 4d overdue | Pending | Oct 10, 2023 |
| 18263801 | AUXINIC HERBICIDES AND METHODS OF USE THEREOF | MURESAN, ANA Z | 1692 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 01, 2023 |
| 18263227 | CYCLOPROPYLAMIDE COMPOUNDS AGAINST PARASITES IN FISH | PATEL, SAGAR S | 1626 | DP | Final Rejection | 5d overdue | Pending | Jul 27, 2023 |
| 18355483 | SELECTION BASED ON OPTIMAL HAPLOID VALUE TO CREATE ELITE LINES | SULLIVAN, BRIAN JAMES | 1663 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 20, 2023 |
| 18262233 | PROCESSES RELATED TO FORMATION OF N-(3-CHLORO-1-(PYRIDIN-3-YL)-1H-PYRAZOL-4-YL)-2-(METHYLSULFONYL)PROPANAMIDE | KOSAR, ANDREW D | 1625 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 53d overdue | Pending | Jul 20, 2023 |
| 18246899 | RAPID TRANSFORMATION OF MONOCOT LEAF EXPLANTS | MCWILLIAMS, KELSEY LYNN | 1663 | §101§103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 28, 2023 |
| 17759863 | COMPOSITIONS HAVING PESTICIDAL UTILITY AND PROCESSES RELATED THERETO | BROWE, DAVID | 1617 | §103 | Final Rejection | 9d | Pending | Aug 01, 2022 |
| 17289660 | COMPOSITIONS COMPRISING PYRIDINE CARBOXYLATE HERBICIDES WITH GLYPHOSATE OR GLUFOSINATE | SAEED, ALI S | 1616 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 28, 2021 |
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