Technology area: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Green Mineral Inc. has 1 pending office action in the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, reflecting a very narrow footprint in the current examination cycle. This concentration means that the company's active legal efforts are focused on a single technical matter at the patent office.
GROOMS, TIFFANY NICOLE is the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action. Because this is the only action pending, this examiner represents the sole point of contact for the company's active prosecution efforts. The company does not have other pending cases to provide a broader context for how its technology is being received by the USPTO.
For practitioners, the fact that 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit control the only pending office action means that the prosecution strategy must be highly targeted. There is no room for a diversified approach across multiple examiners. Success for the company's current portfolio depends entirely on navigating the specific requirements and interpretations of GROOMS, TIFFANY NICOLE.
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 + other | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GROOMS, TIFFANY NICOLE | 1 | 57.8% | +46.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18291377 | VECTOR SYSTEM FOR TRANSFORMATION OF CHLORELLA VULGARIS, AND TRANSFORMATION METHOD FOR CHLORELLA VULGARIS | GROOMS, TIFFANY NICOLE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1637 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18291377 | VECTOR SYSTEM FOR TRANSFORMATION OF CHLORELLA VULGARIS, AND TRANSFORMATION METHOD FOR CHLORELLA VULGARIS | GROOMS, TIFFANY NICOLE | 1637 | §102§103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 23, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialGreen Mineral Inc. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Tiffany Nicole Grooms has the most, with 1 of Green Mineral Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals (USPTO Tech Center 1600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
