Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 25, 2026

Godavari Biorefineries Limited

Technology area: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals

1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days

Analysis

Godavari Biorefineries Limited is active in the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. The portfolio currently has 1 pending office action. This action is being handled by 1 distinct examiner in 1 distinct art unit, reflecting a concentrated effort in a specific technical field. This concentration indicates that the company's intellectual property is being evaluated within a single specialized group at the USPTO.

The busiest examiner for the portfolio is SHIAO, YIH-HORNG. This examiner is managing 1 busiest examiner pending action, which is the only pending action for the company. The alignment between the busiest examiner's workload and the 1 pending office action highlights a focused prosecution phase with no current diversification across different examiners. For practitioners, this means the examiner's interpretation of the prior art will be the factor in the success of the current prosecution efforts within the distinct art unit.

Written from this page's own data; every figure is computed from USPTO records and verified before publication.

Portfolio Summary

1
Total Pending OAs
1
Non-Final OAs
0
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Case Difficulty Mix

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.

0
Hard (0%)
1
Medium (100%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
Double-patenting + other1 (100%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

1
Life Sciences
100% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
0
Mechanical / Eng
0% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

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.

10 h
Manual time on pending OAs
2 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
4 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.1 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
SHIAO, YIH-HORNG 1 72.6% +75.9%

Interview Candidates (1)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18692298 PHARMACEUTICAL COMPOSITION AND A PROCESS TO PREPARE THE SAME SHIAO, YIH-HORNG —

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1691 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18692298 PHARMACEUTICAL COMPOSITION AND A PROCESS TO PREPARE THE SAME SHIAO, YIH-HORNG 1691 §102§103§112DP Non-Final OA — Pending Mar 14, 2024

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Frequently Asked Questions

How many pending USPTO office actions does Godavari Biorefineries Limited have?

Godavari Biorefineries Limited has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.

Which USPTO examiner handles the most Godavari Biorefineries Limited applications?

Yih-Horng Shiao has the most, with 1 of Godavari Biorefineries Limited's pending office actions.

What technology area are Godavari Biorefineries Limited's patent applications in?

Mostly Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals (USPTO Tech Center 1600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.

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