Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
1 pending office actions • 0 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Eg Crop Science Inc. currently holds 1 pending office action in its patent portfolio. This matter is assigned to examiner ZHONG, WAYNESHAOBIN, who is the busiest examiner for the company. The individual is responsible for the pending action currently on record.
The portfolio shows a concentrated footprint with 1 distinct examiner and 0 distinct art units. This indicates that all current prosecution activity is handled by the named examiner and no specific art units are recorded for the workload.
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 |
|---|---|
| Double-patenting only | 1 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ZHONG, WAYNESHAOBIN | 1 | 72.2% | +21.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19234655 | IDENTIFICATION OF RESISTANCE GENES FROM WILD RELATIVES OF BANANA AND THEIR USES IN CONTROLLING PANAMA DISEASE | ZHONG, WAYNESHAOBIN | — |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19234655 | IDENTIFICATION OF RESISTANCE GENES FROM WILD RELATIVES OF BANANA AND THEIR USES IN CONTROLLING PANAMA DISEASE | ZHONG, WAYNESHAOBIN | — | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 11, 2025 |
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