Technology area: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals
3 pending office actions • 1 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days
Gdm Seeds Inc. faces 4 pending office actions within the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. These actions are being reviewed by 3 distinct examiners. Despite the multiple examiners, all 4 pending actions are concentrated within 1 distinct art unit, indicating a very specific technological focus for the current filings. This 1 art unit focus suggests that the company's innovations are being evaluated under a consistent set of departmental guidelines.
MEADOWS, CHRISTINA L is the busiest examiner for the portfolio. This examiner is responsible for 2 busiest examiner pending office actions. This concentration means 1 examiner is handling 2 of the company's total 4 pending office actions. The other actions are split between the remaining distinct examiners. This arrangement places a significant amount of the company's prosecution success in the hands of 1 examiner within that 1 distinct art unit. Practitioners should focus on the specific preferences of this busiest examiner.
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 | 2 (67%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| STEPHENS, REBECCA JOHANNA | 1 | 68.2% | +27.7% |
| MEADOWS, CHRISTINA L | 1 | 74.3% | +25.2% |
| ABRAHAM, AMJAD A | 1 | 31.6% | +35.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19215928 | SOYBEAN VARIETY '20506064' | STEPHENS, REBECCA JOHANNA | — |
| 18897832 | SOYBEAN VARIETIES '21808296', '22072900', '22073013', '21776234', '21776245', '22073192', '21774873', '22032860', AND '22033238' | MEADOWS, CHRISTINA L | — |
| 18523647 | SOYBEAN VARIETIES '2993027', '3379006', '21808483', '21775353', '21775373', AND '21776015' | ABRAHAM, AMJAD A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1663 | 3 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19215928 | SOYBEAN VARIETY '20506064' | STEPHENS, REBECCA JOHANNA | 1663 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 22, 2025 |
| 18897832 | SOYBEAN VARIETIES '21808296', '22072900', '22073013', '21776234', '21776245', '22073192', '21774873', '22032860', AND '22033238' | MEADOWS, CHRISTINA L | 1663 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 26, 2024 |
| 18523647 | SOYBEAN VARIETIES '2993027', '3379006', '21808483', '21775353', '21775373', AND '21776015' | ABRAHAM, AMJAD A | 1663 | §112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 29, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialGdm Seeds Inc. has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 3 examiners.
Rebecca Johanna Stephens has the most, with 1 of Gdm Seeds Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals (USPTO Tech Center 1600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
