Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 2 (67%) |
| §103 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BELL, KENT L | 1 | 94.1% | +4.9% |
| KAPUSHOC, STEPHEN THOMAS | 1 | 46.5% | +53.5% |
| JONES, CHRISTINE MICHELLE | 1 | 0.0% | +0.0% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19027618 | MUTANT GENE OF ZMNST2 AND METHOD FOR IMPROVING EFFICIENCY OF BIOETHANOL PRODUCTION THROUGH FERMENTATION OF MAIZE STRAW | BELL, KENT L | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18762681 | SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM MOLECULAR MARKER COMBINATION FOR IDENTIFYING ARBOR ACRES BROILER, DETECTION KIT AND APPLICATION THEREOF | KAPUSHOC, STEPHEN THOMAS | — |
| 18632319 | DCAPS MOLECULAR MARKER FOR IDENTIFYING RESISTANCE OF WHEAT TO FUSARIUM CROWN ROT CAUSED BY FUSARIUM PSEUDOGRAMINEARUM, PRIMERS AND APPLICATION THEREOF | JONES, CHRISTINE MICHELLE | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18762681 | SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM MOLECULAR MARKER COMBINATION FOR IDENTIFYING ARBOR ACRES BROILER, DETECTION KIT AND APPLICATION THEREOF | KAPUSHOC, STEPHEN THOMAS | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1661 | 1 |
| 1682 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19027618 | MUTANT GENE OF ZMNST2 AND METHOD FOR IMPROVING EFFICIENCY OF BIOETHANOL PRODUCTION THROUGH FERMENTATION OF MAIZE STRAW | BELL, KENT L | 1661 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 17, 2025 |
| 18762681 | SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM MOLECULAR MARKER COMBINATION FOR IDENTIFYING ARBOR ACRES BROILER, DETECTION KIT AND APPLICATION THEREOF | KAPUSHOC, STEPHEN THOMAS | — | §101§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 03, 2024 |
| 18632319 | DCAPS MOLECULAR MARKER FOR IDENTIFYING RESISTANCE OF WHEAT TO FUSARIUM CROWN ROT CAUSED BY FUSARIUM PSEUDOGRAMINEARUM, PRIMERS AND APPLICATION THEREOF | JONES, CHRISTINE MICHELLE | 1682 | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 11, 2024 |
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