Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Hainan Institute Of Zhejiang University has a highly focused patent presence with 1 pending office action in the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. This single action is being processed within 1 distinct art unit, reflecting a narrow and specific point of engagement with the patent office. The prosecution is handled by a single distinct examiner, DELEO, VICTORIA LYNN, who is responsible for the pending office action currently on record.
For a practitioner, this data indicates a streamlined prosecution environment where all current activity is centralized under a single official. Because DELEO, VICTORIA LYNN is the busiest examiner, the immediate trajectory of the institute's portfolio depends entirely on the interactions within this single file. This lack of complexity across different art units or examiners simplifies the monitoring requirements for this specific set of intellectual property assets. Legal teams can focus their resources on a single point of contact rather than managing a distributed network of examiner interactions.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DELEO, VICTORIA LYNN | 1 | 41.4% | -44.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19298286 | APPLICATION METHOD IN RICE CALLUS DIFFERENTIATION BASED ON ORYZA SATIVA LEAFY COTYLEDON 1 GENE | DELEO, VICTORIA LYNN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1662 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19298286 | APPLICATION METHOD IN RICE CALLUS DIFFERENTIATION BASED ON ORYZA SATIVA LEAFY COTYLEDON 1 GENE | DELEO, VICTORIA LYNN | 1662 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 13, 2025 |
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