Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Chemistry & Materials
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Crop Research Institute Saas maintains a patent portfolio within the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. The company currently has 2 pending office actions that require responses. These actions are distributed across 2 distinct examiners, which means the prosecution workload is shared between different individuals. Additionally, the portfolio is active within 2 distinct art units, indicating that the technical subject matter spans multiple specialized groups at the patent office.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is STANKOVIC, BRATISLAV, who is currently handling 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Since there are 2 pending office actions in total, this examiner is responsible for 1 of the active matters. Practitioners should be aware that with 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units, the institute must manage different examination styles and technical standards. The presence of 2 pending office actions across 2 distinct examiners suggests a need for a coordinated approach to ensure consistency in the institute's intellectual property strategy within the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals sector.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 2 (100%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| STANKOVIC, BRATISLAV | 1 | 70.0% | +21.9% |
| SWEENEY, MAURA ELIZABETH | 1 | 5.4% | -6.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17942173 | Blending Method of High-Quality and Dual-Purpose Flour for Bread and Noodles | SWEENEY, MAURA ELIZABETH | 45d 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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18482845 | ENVIRONMENTAL-FRIENDLY AND EFFICIENT BREEDING METHOD OF HIGH-YIELD AND HIGH-QUALITY WHEAT CULTIVARS | STANKOVIC, BRATISLAV | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1662 | 1 |
| 1791 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18482845 | ENVIRONMENTAL-FRIENDLY AND EFFICIENT BREEDING METHOD OF HIGH-YIELD AND HIGH-QUALITY WHEAT CULTIVARS | STANKOVIC, BRATISLAV | 1662 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 06, 2023 |
| 17942173 | Blending Method of High-Quality and Dual-Purpose Flour for Bread and Noodles | SWEENEY, MAURA ELIZABETH | 1791 | §103 | Final Rejection | 45d overdue | Pending | Sep 11, 2022 |
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