Technology area: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Henan Sesame Research Center Henan Academy Of Agricultural Sciences has 2 pending office actions in Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals. Both matters are associated with 1 examiner and 1 art unit, showing concentration in one examination setting.
JOHNSON, EMILY KATHARINE is the busiest examiner, with 2 pending matters. Counsel can coordinate responses around a shared examiner and art-unit context while preserving claim-specific analysis for each matter.
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 | 1 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| JOHNSON, EMILY KATHARINE | 2 | 87.5% | +21.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18983211 | SESAME HIGH OLEIC ACID CONTENT GENE SIFAD2-1 AND SNP MARKER THEREOF | JOHNSON, EMILY KATHARINE | — |
| 18978080 | SIPT1 GENE REGULATING SESAME PLANT ARCHITECTURE TRAIT AND PRIMER PAIR THEREOF | JOHNSON, EMILY KATHARINE | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18983211 | SESAME HIGH OLEIC ACID CONTENT GENE SIFAD2-1 AND SNP MARKER THEREOF | JOHNSON, EMILY KATHARINE | — |
| 18978080 | SIPT1 GENE REGULATING SESAME PLANT ARCHITECTURE TRAIT AND PRIMER PAIR THEREOF | JOHNSON, EMILY KATHARINE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1662 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18983211 | SESAME HIGH OLEIC ACID CONTENT GENE SIFAD2-1 AND SNP MARKER THEREOF | JOHNSON, EMILY KATHARINE | 1662 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 16, 2024 |
| 18978080 | SIPT1 GENE REGULATING SESAME PLANT ARCHITECTURE TRAIT AND PRIMER PAIR THEREOF | JOHNSON, EMILY KATHARINE | 1662 | §101§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 12, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialHenan Sesame Research Center Henan Academy Of Agricultural Sciences has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Emily Katharine Johnson has the most, with 2 of Henan Sesame Research Center Henan Academy Of Agricultural Sciences's pending office actions.
Mostly Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals (USPTO Tech Center 1600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
